Lead Systems Integrator at Guardian Group
London, United Kingdom
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- Lead Systems Integrator at Guardian Group
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- Infrastructure Specialist at ThoughtWorks
- Infrastructure Developer at Royal Bank of Scotland
- Software Engineer at Red Hat
- Development Systems Administrator at Empower Interactive
- Build and Configuration Engineer at Quadriga Worldwide
- Infrastructure Engineer/Software Developer at Connextra
- Hosting Engineer - now.com at International Management Group / TWI
- Network Engineer at Micropoint
- Support Assistent at University of Manchester
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Paul Nasrat’s Summary
I am a highly experienced systems administrator, systems architect and software developer with over 10 years UNIX/Linux systems administration and over 5 years software development experience.
I am particularly skilled at problem solving, architecting large scale systems, supporting high performance web serving, systems development, systems automation and systems testing.
I have a strong interest and involvement in trying to improve the tools and practices around systems administration, including speaking at conferences and developing open source systems tools such as puppet.
Paul Nasrat’s Specialties:
Linux, Unix, Python, Ruby, C, Java, Apache, Build and Deployment, Software Engineering, Systems Administration, Debugging, Web technologies, Automation,Tool Writing, Configuration Management, Agile Development, Consultancy, Puppet
Paul Nasrat’s Experience
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Lead Systems Integrator
Guardian Group
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
April 2009 — Present (10 months)
Leading the Web Systems team and working closely with development on systems automation (puppet), infrastructure design, architecture, performance tuning, capacity planning and site scaling for leading UK newspaper website.
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Infrastructure Specialist
ThoughtWorks
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 4 months)
Senior consultant at software consultancy. Developer of solutions for clients in a variety of technologies - Java, .NET, Ruby. Specialising in build automation, deployment automation, continuous integration, automated testing, configuration management, performance testing and debugging performance issues.
Major projects included:
Guardian News and Media, London
Responsibilities included creating and managing development and test environments, systems configuration management, production support of high volume news web site, debugging of liveperfomance issues, performance testing and capacity planning for new site features. -
Infrastructure Developer
Royal Bank of Scotland
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RBS; Banking industry)
August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)
Supporting the development team and development process for a high-volume fixed income derivatives system. Identified performance and memory issues for a credit trading application written in Java, including tracking down application crashes to a threading bug in the Sun JDK.
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Software Engineer
Red Hat
(Public Company; RHT; Computer Software industry)
May 2004 — August 2007 (3 years 4 months)
Developer and maintainer of package management (RPM, yum) and operating system installer (anaconda) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Fedora project. Developed and fixed issues with a variety of open source projects. Worked with partner developers and ISV’s on new hardware support, particularly for PowerPC hardware.
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Development Systems Administrator
Empower Interactive
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
November 2003 — April 2004 (6 months)
Management and automation of test and deployment environments for development team of a mobile messaging product.
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Build and Configuration Engineer
Quadriga Worldwide
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2003 — October 2003 (5 months)
Production of custom Linux distribution and installers for in-room hotel entertainment systems. Worked on build and test automation of application and system.
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Infrastructure Engineer/Software Developer
Connextra
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 3 months)
Developed and supported dynamic contextual advertisement applications. Performance tuned systems and applications as ad traffic rapidly grew during major sporting events.
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Hosting Engineer - now.com
International Management Group / TWI
(Broadcast Media industry)
January 2001 — March 2002 (1 year 3 months)
Developed and supported global web and streaming platform for television studio and broadcaster. Implemented global caching platform for high traffic live cricket score card.
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Network Engineer
Micropoint
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 4 months)
Onsite IT consultant and IT Support.
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Support Assistent
University of Manchester
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
September 1996 — June 1999 (2 years 10 months)
Part time computer helpdesk and support role in Faculty of Arts. Worked on full time projects in vacation time.
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Paul Nasrat’s Interests:
Operations, Web Scale, Agile Infrastructure, Development, Traveling, Reading
Paul Nasrat’s Groups:
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Agile System Administration
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