Keith Marston
Keith Marston
An overview
I have started this Blog to provide a way to present my skills. Can I have a copy of your CV is always a difficult question as I have many skills, some I am more perficient in than others. Some I have not used for a number of years cause they have not been my current focus and technologies in that area have moved on. Normally however with a little refresh you tend to find most of the basic principles in each area reamin fundermetially the same.
- Is it turned on
- Is it plugged in
- Can thing A connect to thing B on the required interface
I a very simple way this sums up technology, plug it in, turn it on and check there is nothing between the two things which generally means the closer together they are the less lightly there is to be anything stopping them "talk".
Oh but welcome to the modern technology landscape of Cloud services with different regions, on prem authentication authorities, APIs providing different abstractions of data sets, multiple 3rd party providers of information etc.
This site is currently generated with Pelican - I chose this fairly quickly as it is written in Python and uses Jinja templates two things I have experiance of if I wish to add any extensions. Jinia is used in Ansible something I am also experianced in. I am however not particuarly experianced in web design or HTML and this helps to then abstract a lot of that pain from me. One of the first things I probably need to do is ensure my Markdown gets spell checked!
Some of the projects I will add blogs about will be in private repos for various reasons but please do request access if you are interested.
In the modern DevOps technology world I feel a technical member of staff requires many skills. I am careful to respect what I do not know but am also aware of how useful it is to have a resonable level of understanding of all the technology stacks your role interfaces with. This helps you understand the objectives and challenges of those teams.
Public contributions
My contributions back to public projects is less than I would like however I am creditted with this contribution xmpppy
Background in tech
I come from an infrastructure background and help been involved with computing from aged around 10. Ufortuantly at that time the internet was not readaly avilable (there was dial-up BBS available but...) and information to learn from was harder to obtain. I did BTEC computing at college and started a computer science degree.
I worked for a software company providing support and went on the be their lead network engineer deploying early Microsoft small bussiness server solutions around the country to their customer base.
What I do now
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