Ethan C. Houghton

DEV · Block 17 · 97 changesDEV · Block 17: Aligned to the new CV · 97 changes (click to expand)

A new headline, Linux Systems Engineer, and every page, the CV and its PDF matched to the new CV.

About: Looking for: a role that supports my career development, curiosity and autonomy
Home: on phones the typed line sits above the role card, not inside it
Projects: under the gallery, What brought you here? with three ways on: Hiring for this? to Contact, Want the full picture? to the CV, and Want to read the code? to GitHub
Spacing is now the same across the site: sections are 64px apart (40 on phones), and cards in a grid 20px apart, on the home page, About, Projects, the case studies, the CV and Contact. Home page's role card: on computers Read more is as tall as the facts beside it
Contact: the day panel is now one bar in your time, with Start and Stop flags pointing at where my hours begin and end, the hours we overlap solid, and your working day bracketed under it; above it my time now, whether I'm working, and one line on how much of your day I cover; under it Compare with and the same as two facts. Opening Compare with no longer jumbles the panel, and Auckland's time zone now shows as UTC+13
Every grid of facts now looks the same, on the home page's About and closing box, the Contact page and the CV: one rounded box with thin lines between the facts, each centred, with cyan labels; the CV's facts lose their icons. Home page on phones: no line under the career bar
Home page's role card: the next certification and Off the clock now sit straight in the card, without a panel around them. On phones the career bar has two more highlights from Afrihost, joining in April 2021 and the hosting triage tool in March 2022; a highlight with a case study shows Read case study between Previous and Next, and the totals line under the bar is gone. About's quick facts are centred on every screen. Closing box: on phones the heading and buttons are centred. Contact: the hours line now says I work 07:00 to 19:00 SAST and what that is in your time, and the time zone picker is a list in the site's own style
Home page's role card: on computers, About's four facts are now each centred in their column, every value on one line, running up to Read more
Home page's role card: the next certification tile now shows what the exam tests, one bar split by its five areas and their weights with a legend, and Read more is wider on computers; the story and the panel sit side by side from 1280px. Closing box: each fact is centred in its cell. About: What's next is a roadmap, Kubernetes now, then DevOps, then MLOps, on a track with the first lit, the role I'm looking for under it and the buttons on the right. Contact: Based in, Hours and Notice are one strip, and a Compare with picker lets you choose the time zone for the second lane, which starts on yours, or Brisbane if you're in South Africa
Menu: the pages now run About, Projects, Contact, then CV, on computers and phones, and the page slide follows that order. Home page's role card: About's Mentored fact now reads 20+ consultants & engineers
Home page's role card: the next certification now sits in About, as the first tile of one rounded panel above Off the clock, with a badge icon, its name, and the date and countdown in one line; it still opens the details. From computer width the story and the panel sit side by side, the hobbies four by two; on phones the panel follows the story. The line on fixing broken things now fills each line
Home page's role card: About now has my line on fixing broken things and the paragraph on the work on the left, and Off the clock on the right as eight tiles with an icon each, the two ending level. Under them the quick facts run in one strip with Read more at its end, now a solid cyan button whose arrow slides on hover. On phones it stacks, with Read more full width at the bottom
Contact: the day bar now has two lanes, my time (SAST) and yours, each shading that place's 09:00 to 17:00 in one colour and showing its time now, under my 07:00 to 19:00 hours. The big clock shows your own time and city, with your lane picked out, and if your working day falls mostly in my night, a note offers night shift cover
Working hours are now 07:00 to 19:00 SAST, on the home page's closing box and the Contact page, where the day bar shades those hours. Home page's role card: About is now a column of quick facts (when I started, how I learned, how many I've mentored, where I'm based) beside my line on fixing broken things and a paragraph on the work, with the hobbies and Read more under it
Home page's role card: the timeline's years and company names are now one bolder style in the main colour, on computers and phones. Contact: the panel no longer has a window bar, so it reads as a plain card. Timeline: the Incident Response dot's pulse is 30% slower, and clearer on the dark theme
Home page's role card: the totals under the timeline ('in tech', 'at Nclose') are now the main colour instead of grey. Closing box: on the narrowest phones the Contact and View CV buttons now stack, full width, each on one line. CV: each How I work line is now the main colour, a step above the grey proof under it
Home page's role card: on a computer the figures now sit straight under the timeline as one even row, then the next certification, then one introduction under About (what I do and my story together, in two columns), with Off the clock as a quiet line of hobbies and Read more. Phones get the same introduction in one column. Every label in the card is now the same cyan label, the local time is gone from the card (the Contact page has it), and the timeline's dots from late 2024 to early 2025 have a little more space between them
Home page's timeline: a dot's card is now centred under its dot, and stays inside the panel for the dots near its edges; dots no longer shift slightly when the pointer is over them. About: The story is 20% wider, still centred, its lines using the width
Contact: the header is now a status board panel under the typed heading: a window bar, the line on the roles and Houghton Digital across its full width, Based in, Hours and Notice as three tiles side by side (on phones too), and the day as a 24 hour bar with the hours 08:00 to 20:00 shaded, a line every two hours and a marker at the time now. Visitors in another time zone also see the hours in their own time
Timeline: the ripple that opens a case study from a dot is 30% quicker, covering the screen in 0.7 seconds instead of 1
Home page's role card: the row of four facts under the timeline is gone (the closing box still has them), on computers and phones; a timeline dot's card still opens in the same place and size, now over What I do and About. What I do is now the same grey, size and line spacing as About, and small text across the site (the figures' labels on the role card and phones, the CV's How I work lines on a computer) is now that grey too. About: The story is now as wide as a case study and centred like one
Timeline and CV: Integrity360's acquisition of Nclose, announced in January 2025, is now on the timeline as a red Acquisition dot, and the bar turns red from then, named Integrity360 (on phones too); the About story has it, and the CV and its PDF say 'Acquired by Integrity360 in January 2025' under Nclose
Timeline: clicking a project's dot, or the Incident Response dot, now opens its case study with one ripple: the dot's ring, in its colour, grows across the screen with the case study showing inside it. The Incident Response card now reads 'Recognised by the CEO for incident response.', and Martin's 'you have set a precedent' comment is now in that case study's outcome instead of a hidden toast; About's Incident Response entry links to it too
Timeline: the dots' rings are quicker and ease out, fast to slow: a click sends out a ring in under a second, and the Incident Response dot rings quickly with a pause between rings
CV on phones: How I work is now one panel with a row for each way of working, the name as a small cyan label over its line, instead of four small cards two by two
On phones: the typed line on the home page now fills the width of its card, and the typed headings on About, Contact and Projects stay on one line; the home page's What I do no longer has the facts grid (the closing box still has them); Read more is now the same button as View CV; and the 'you have set a precedent' toast is wider, so it wraps at most once
Home page on phones: the figures now run biggest first and end on the client deployments: about 2 PB, 200k events a second, 350+ Linux nodes, 220 cluster nodes, then 15+ client deployments
Contact: the heading is now typed out after a '~ $' prompt, 'Hiring remotely? Get in touch', with no label or status line above it, and the footer's LinkedIn, GitHub and email buttons are hidden there, since the page already has them. CV: the summary is now in first person, from the support desk to co-running the search and log platform, with its scale, the client deployments, the 45 minutes to 2 and the CKA
Projects: the heading is typed out after a '~ $' prompt too, with no label or line under it. Contact: the Overlap line is gone from the facts
About: the heading is now typed out after a '~ $' prompt, like the home page's line, with no label or intro line above The story; the Incident Response dot rings like the home page's, and three quick clicks show the same easter egg; and What's next is one panel, with the Get in touch and View CV buttons inside it
Contact: the header now matches the home page's closing box: 'Open to fully remote roles', 'Get in touch' and one line on the roles and Houghton Digital on the left, and Based in, Local time, Hours, Notice and Overlap in a grid on the right (under it on phones), each said once. Home page: the closing box no longer has the 'I usually reply within a day' line
Home page: clicking a dot on the timeline keeps its description showing (it used to vanish), and every dot you click or tap, on computers and phones, sends out one faint ring in its own colour, like the Incident Response dot's
Home, About and CV: the clusters are now 'co-run' everywhere ('I co-run large-scale search ...', 'I co-run the platform ...'); About gives one title, SysOps Engineer, with no promotion line; and the forward deployments are now client deployments 'for enterprises and government', on the home role card and its explainer
CV: the Nclose entry now leads with the search and log platform, then pipelines and automation, then client delivery and incident response; every line opens with its result ('Ended manual index deletion on 12 compliance clusters ...', 'Restored log visibility in a major healthcare security incident ...'); 'Help run' is now 'Co-run', the forward deployments are '15+ client deployments, configuring collectors and pipelines remotely inside each client's environment', Kafka is listed with the ingest layer, the dates read 'September 2023 to present', and the CV and its PDF show one title
Home page: the closing box now asks 'Thinking of hiring a great engineer?', says I'm open to new roles and shows the four hiring facts beside it (under it on phones), with both buttons the same size and even spacing. CV: How I work now names how I work, Responsibility, Reliability, Rigour and Caution, each with one line on how and its proof under it
Home page: the EVTX work and the CEO's recognition are now one Incident Response achievement, in October 2024, and its dot is the only one that moves: a faint green ring, on phones and computers. On phones a tapped dot opens one highlight at a time, with a short paragraph (tap it for the About page), Previous and Next, and Hide; the panel keeps one height. And a new easter egg, with its riddle in the terminal's eggs
CV tools: the pipeline is now four steps, 1 · Collect, 2 · Queue and enrich, 3 · Store and search and 4 · Monitor, and Ship safely is now Build and release. On phones the steps are numbered on a line joining them, each section has its one-line description under its name, and the buttons are bigger, two to a row, with the logo at the left and the name beside it
Timeline, About story and phone highlights: awards are now labelled Achievement
CV tools on phones: the buttons are 10% taller (26 to 29px) and their logos about 20% bigger
CV tools: Kubernetes is gone from Run on; its two pictures (the Kubernetes Dashboard and a cluster's parts, with their sources) are now in the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) panel, on the CV and the home page. The panel has a close button in its top right corner, since on a phone it now fills nearly the whole screen
CV: the headline under my name now reads Cybersecurity Platform Engineer (the official title at Nclose is unchanged); Nclose's groups now run delivery and leadership, then infrastructure and automation, then platform and observability, then data pipelines; and the deployments line now reads 'for international and national enterprises and government in consumer finance, higher education, oil and gas, retail and hospitality'
Home page on phones: the career bar now has a dot for each award and top project (Orca Security pipeline, EVTX ingestion, Ubuntu to Debian migration and OpenSearch toolkit). Every few seconds the dots grow and settle one after another, left to right, until you tap one; tap a dot and a highlights list eases open under the bar with that one picked out. The awards' and the CKA's green is now brighter (#1bf800 on dark, a deeper green of the same hue on light)
About page: The story now tells the same story as the home page's timeline, year by year: every job, project, award and the CKA under a heading for its year, each with a dot in its timeline colour (the CKA hollow, still to come), its kind and month, a title and a line. Projects open their case study and awards carry a star. On a computer the year sits in a column on the left; on a phone it sits above its items
Home page's timeline: a dot's card now fills exactly the block of the strip under it, from just under Afrihost and Nclose to the strip's bottom, and says the same thing in fewer words so it fits at the normal size
CV tools on phones: each button's logo now sits at its left edge with the name centred in the button. On the narrowest phones, a long name centres in the space right of its logo instead
Home page's role card: the timeline's awards are now green like the CKA and its projects cyan; a dot's card now opens under the bar and fills the block (or blocks) of the strip below it, ending level with the strip; and the What I do, Off the clock and About titles are in the accent, like the figures' titles
Home page's role card on tablets and computers: the title and company are gone and the career bar is now a timeline across the whole card, from finishing school to the CKA exam, with a coloured dot for every project, job, award and certification (no legend; each colour is one kind). Rest the pointer on a dot, or reach it with Tab, to see what it is and when; a project's dot opens its case study. Phones are unchanged
CV: the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) under Certifications now opens the same panel as the home page (what Kubernetes is, what the CKA proves and the exam date), with a dotted underline and an info icon to show it can be pressed. On a computer, when there's no room for the panel above or below, it opens beside it, never off the screen
Home page's role card: Read more is now a quiet outlined button that no longer moves on its own
Home page's role card: Off the clock now shows each hobby as its own small block (Basketball, Chess, Guitar, Hiking, Reading, Homelabs, Photography, Sailing), four across on a computer and two across on a phone
Home page's role card, reworked: About now lives inside the card (the separate About section under it is gone, Read more kept) and the email is no longer in it; Off the clock is a small block of its own. On a computer the role and the career bar share one row, the four facts sit in a strip of four equal cells, then What I do and About side by side, then the figures. On phones: the typed line, the figures first, then the role, what's next, What I do with the facts as a 2 by 2 of labelled blocks (Roles: Fully remote; Citizenship: Australian; Hours; Notice: One month), then About
CV: the ways of working under the tools are now 'How I work', a card for each (DevOps, Incident response, Root cause analysis and Change management) with its icon and one line from the CV that backs it up; four in a row on a computer, 2 by 2 on a phone
CV tools on phones: each section's tools now fill its width as equal buttons, logo and name centred: one tool takes the whole line, two share it, three are one on top and two under, four sit in one row when they fit or 2 by 2 when they don't, and more form an even grid
Home page on phones: each fact's dot now sits at the left of its pill with the text centred, and the figure panel in the role card is now the card's own colour (light and dark), keeping its glow
CV tools: the five tools with a lettered mark instead of a logo (Netskope, Orca Security, Zabbix, PowerShell and Hyper-V) no longer spill out of their little box; the letters now fill it, the same size as the other logos
Home page on phones: the typed line now sits inside the role card, at its top, always on one line (it shrinks to fit), and the four facts are a 2 by 2 grid with their text centred
Footer on phones: my signature, name and title are larger and centred, with the LinkedIn, GitHub and email buttons in a row straight under them, and the two lines under the big houghton.rocks are centred. The title still never wraps
Home page's first screen: the intro and the four facts now sit inside the role card, at its top, above the role and the career bar. On a computer the intro is on the left and the facts are a short list on its right, where the empty space was, and the gap under the header is about a third of what it was. On phones the facts sit under the intro as small pills
Footer: from tablets up, the LinkedIn, GitHub and email buttons sit to the right of my name and title, on the same row. On phones there's no room beside it, so they stay under it with the empty space closed up, and the title always stays on one line
CV tools on phones: instead of a grid of bare logos, the tools sit in the same labelled sections as on a computer (Working with big data: 1 · Pull to 6 · Monitor; then Automate, Ship safely and Run on), each tool a small pill with its logo and its name; tap one to open its panel. No map or switch on a phone
Home page's first screen: the command line now types one line, 'I build and maintain cybersecurity platforms', once and then stays still, instead of looping through four sayings. Under the intro, four facts a recruiter screens for: open to fully remote roles, Australian citizen, 08:00 to 20:00 SAST and one month's notice
CV tools on tablets and computers: Map and Sections is now a simple toggle. The CV always opens on Sections and no longer remembers your last pick, and about a second after the page loads the Map button glows once so it's easy to spot
CV tools: Grafana, Zabbix, VMware vSphere, Netskope and Orca Security now show images in their panels too, from their own docs and sites, so every tool but the languages and the API collectors has pictures
CV tools: each tool's panel now shows real images of it from its own docs (screenshots and diagrams, each whole in one frame, never cropped or stretched): click the image, the arrows or the dots, or swipe, to see the next one. Languages show a hello world instead, and the 'What it is' and 'How I use it' headings are replaced by one short paragraph on what the tool is and where it's used. On phones the panel uses more of the width
Home page's role card on tablets and computers: each figure is centred in its box, the label above it, the number and the lines under it, and the search and log platform's three figures sit evenly spaced. Between 768 and 1023 pixels wide the card keeps two figures side by side with the platform under them, so every number fits centred
CV tools: switching between Map and Sections is smoother. Each logo now flies with its chip around it, so nothing pops in when it lands, they all land together in about half a second instead of trickling in, and the rest of the CV glides to its new place instead of jumping
CV page on computers: the sheet is now as wide as every other page's content, lining up with the header, the footer and the home page's role card, instead of sitting narrower in the middle. Phones and the PDF are unchanged
CV tools: the pipeline now sits under one heading, 'Working with big data', so its steps no longer each say 'data' ('1 · Pull', '2 · Ship' and so on)
CV tools on tablets and computers: the sections view is now one line per section, its name on the left and its tools as smaller pills only as wide as their names, in one card for the pipeline and one for what sits underneath it; about a third shorter, with every line the same height and every pill the same gap apart. Phones still show just the logos
Footer: the big houghton.rocks now runs exactly from the left edge of the signature to the right edge of the icons, on every screen, so it sits centred on the page instead of off to one side
CV tools: '4 · Filter data' shows Logstash once, as one tall pill, instead of 'Logstash filter' and 'Logstash input' side by side. The map still shows both, one on each side
Footer: the About, Projects, CV and Contact links are gone (the header has them), and on computers my name and title are larger, with a little space between them, so together they stand as tall as the handwritten signature beside them
Home page's role card, on phones and computers: the heading is now 'Cybersecurity Platform Engineer' (no 'My current role' label; the company stays under it, and my official title stays on the CV), and the two small time lines in the corner are now a career timeline bar under it: 2021, 2023 and now above it, Afrihost and Nclose as segments sized by the months at each (Nclose in cyan with a live dot at the end), and the totals at its two ends
Headline: now 'Linux Systems Engineer' on the CV and its PDF, About, Contact, the search and share previews and the terminal; the home page's big heading reads 'Linux Systems' (still one line on every screen). The lines about the roles I'm open to, and my job title at Nclose, keep 'platform and observability'
CV page: where I'm based, my citizenship and the roles I'm open to now sit in the grid under the header (South Africa, UTC+2; Australian; fully remote roles) instead of in pills, in place of the four figures, which the bullets below and the home page's role card already give. The PDF is unchanged
Role card on phones, tidied: left-aligned like the rest of the page, with the time at Nclose and in tech as two short lines at the right; each figure sits in a soft panel with its icon beside its label, the number itself centred, and its label and detail on one line; next certification and local time are two tidy rows instead of boxes, so no label wraps; and the empty gap under the bar is gone (the hint now sits in the panel's padding)
No repeats, part two: the typed line under the big heading now says how I work ('Every change has a way back', 'If I've done it twice, I script it', 'Root cause, not just the symptom', 'Fully remote for over a year') instead of repeating the role card; the CV summary is two plain sentences without the figures; the migration case study is about the migration only (the IP rollback has its own); case study summaries say something their title, tags and sections don't; the OpenSearch case study's problem is one line; and the home and About cards drop 'Nclose (Integrity360)'
Role card on phones with a stylus (Samsung S Pen): hovering a figure no longer pops up the computer-style explanation in the wrong place; on a phone it opens only with press and hold, with a finger or the stylus. Computers still show it on mouse hover
No repeats, home and CV: the role card's heading is the official title again (SysOps Engineer), since the big heading above already says what the work is; the View CV and Get in touch buttons under the role card are gone (the closing box has them); the closing box drops its 'open to work' label (the pill at the top says it); the note 'Nodes and data across 5+ Elastic and OpenSearch clusters' is gone (the label above says it); and the CV summary no longer repeats the CKA (Certifications has it)
Title: the home role card's heading is now 'Platform & Observability', with 'SysOps Engineer at Nclose (Integrity360)' under it; the CV, its PDF and the terminal read 'SysOps Engineer (Platform & Observability)', so the official title is always there next to what the work is
Role card on phones, light mode: the glow behind each figure is a lighter, brighter cyan instead of the deep text cyan, so it reads fresh rather than murky on white; dark mode is unchanged
Hiring facts: the email everywhere (site, CV and PDF) is now ethan.c@houghton.rocks; the clusters read as team work ('I help run', 'Help run 5+ clusters'), since a team runs them; the home intro no longer ends with 'Self-taught, no degree' (that story stays on About); Kubernetes in the home tech strip reads 'kubernetes (learning)'; and Contact says I can work as an employee or as a contractor through Houghton Digital, my hours (08:00 to 20:00 SAST: the European working day and 5 to 6 hours with US East) and one month's notice
'open to fully remote roles' replaces 'DevOps roles'. Real job titles are unchanged
CV: the new summary, leading with large-scale search and log pipelines; Core Skills reordered with observability first, Kubernetes (CKA in progress) under Containers and a new Practices group; Nclose shows SysOps Engineer, previously Junior Linux Engineer, with its points in four groups (platform and observability, data pipelines, infrastructure and automation, delivery and leadership) instead of a separate 'key achievements' box; Afrihost keeps three points; Languages and References are gone (the same on the PDF)
Figures: OpenSearch diagnosis now reads 'from about 45 minutes to about two minutes' (CV, About and the case study); the Afrihost triage tool is used by 'about 10' consultants; the forward deployments list drops workforce services; the CKA reads 'exam scheduled 15 December 2026' everywhere
Home: the role card's middle group is the 'Search and log platform' (220 cluster nodes, including the SIEM), the last is 'Forward deployments', and 'in role' is now 'at Nclose', since the role itself began with a promotion; the hero text leads with search and log pipelines, the typed line starts with 'SysOps Engineer at Nclose', and the call to action asks 'Hiring a platform or observability engineer?'
PDF: 'Australian citizen' sits next to the location in the header
CV page: on computers the sheet is a quarter wider, with the text filling it; phones and the PDF download are unchanged
Name: the names slide apart smoothly again when the page loads (a later effect had turned the slide into a jump), the shine sweeps across the name once after it's written in, not on hover or click, and clicking the name pops it up 2px and back in time with its tap sound (instead of a slow lift while held)
Page switches on phones: the slide no longer stutters, the Projects page included. What slides is now just the screen, not a picture of the whole page (over 9,000 pixels tall on a phone, which its graphics chip couldn't redraw smoothly); the header, terminal, read aloud bar and toasts hold still above it. Everything on the incoming page also holds still until it has slid in, the home page's tech strip pauses for the slide, the home page's heading no longer fades in again after a slide (the slide is its entrance), and the phone menu closes whenever the page changes, including from the name or the terminal
Terminal on phones: the keyboard no longer pops up. The prompt keeps its blinking cursor but stays closed to the on-screen keyboard; the tap commands and the key bar do the work, with a new run key (the highlighted return arrow) that runs a command recalled with the up key. Every command in help has a button (eggs last), wrapped so all are in view; cat shows the CV text and open goes to the page of the folder you're in
CV and role card on phones (tablets and computers are unchanged): linked bullets read as plain text with a short 'Case study' link after them instead of a long underlined run; a job's group headings and dates are 12px with the dates in a brighter grey and the location no longer italic; the header facts fit in two rows; the long OpenSearch and Docker pills show just the name (the popup still has the details, now including ISM and ILM and the custom Puppet modules); and skills spacing is tighter (868px down to 746px tall)
Home page's role card on phones (tablets and computers are unchanged): centred, with the time at Nclose and in tech in one line under the title, and the five figures shown one at a time in a spotlight, large, with an icon and a soft glow. A bar along the bottom fills while each waits, then the next comes in; tap the right of the card for the next, the left for the one before, swipe, or tap a segment of the bar. A finger on the card, or a figure's explanation being open (press and hold, as before), keeps it where it is. 'Next certification' and local time are a box each under it. The figures sit side by side and follow the finger: drag and they move with it, let go and they settle on the nearest one. Going forward the next figure slides in from the right edge (from the left going back), each counts up as it appears, and the hint under the bar goes after the first tap
Home page's role card: 'Next up: CKA exam' is now 'Next certification: Kubernetes Administrator', and tapping or clicking it opens what Kubernetes solves, what the CKA exam proves and what it lets me do for a tech company, with the exam date. On phones the box has a small info icon; on computers the name is underlined with dots. The CV, its PDF and the rest of the site keep 'CKA'
Home page's role card on phones: the figures no longer scroll up and down a little when dragged; only sideways, as before. Nothing on the card moves or changes size
About: the timeline shows joining Nclose as a Junior Linux Engineer, since promoted to SysOps Engineer, and 'The role' is a fully remote platform or observability role
Read aloud: every changed line is re-recorded, so the voice matches the new text; numbers and abbreviations are read the way a person says them: '2,000' is 'two thousand' (not 'two, zero zero zero'), years are 'twenty twenty-three', '15 December' is 'fifteenth December', Integrity360 is 'Integrity three sixty', ISM and CLI are spelled out and 'VMs' keeps its s

Nclose (Integrity360)

Highlights

JobApr 2021Joined AfrihostStarted on Afrihost's support desk, helping customers over WhatsApp with fibre, ADSL, mobile data, web hosting and email, and went on to mentor newer consultants.

… in tech… at Nclose

Search and log platform

~2PB

of data · about 2,000 laptops' worth

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Total managed nodes

350+

Linux nodes

hardened and managed with Puppet

Search and log platform

cluster nodes

220

of data

~2PB

average ingest

200kEPS

Client deployments

15+

deployments delivered

for enterprises and government

About

Give me something broken and a terminal, and I'll find out why.

I co-run large-scale search and log pipelines at a managed detection and response provider in South Africa: Elastic and OpenSearch clusters, the SIEM they power, and Puppet and Python across hardened Linux nodes. I've always thought in systems, and working things out on my own is what hooked me. It still does.

Off the clock

Basketball

Chess

Guitar

Hiking

Reading

Homelabs

Photography

Sailing

Started: 2021, support desk
Learned: Self-taught
Mentored: 20+ consultants & engineers
Based in: South Africa

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Case studies

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Phased Ubuntu to Debian migration of log collectors across three offices
How I moved a financial asset manager's log collectors to new Debian machines, one kind of log source at a time.
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Applying an updated ISM policy to existing OpenSearch indices
Why the team kept deleting old indices by hand, and the fix that made retention run on its own.
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OpenSearch diagnostics and capacity forecasting tooling
Built so the team stops firefighting the OpenSearch clusters and starts planning for them.
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Roles: Fully remote
Citizenship: Australian
Hours: 07:00 to 19:00 SAST
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