Alice Kaerast

Alice is a devops engineer based in Leeds, they graduated from the University of Bradford with a BSc in E-Commerce Technologies; specialising in cryptography and systems administration.

They have 15 years experience in Devops and Linux systems administration, both Debian and Redhat based. They have strong abilities in PHP, HTML5 and Ruby; with some javascript experience and interests in more obscure languages such as Io.

They have extensive commercial experience in supporting the customer service, manufacturing, web development, accountancy, education, local government, charity and arboriculture sectors.

They are an advocate of lean and agile methodologies, a mentor for small local businesses and freelancers. They are a strong believer in open-source technologies and a strong contributor to the local tech communities and user groups.

Contact

Alice is always keen to support open source projects and local user groups.

  • Leeds, UK
  • +447763858
  • alice@kaerast.info

Resume

Alice Kaerast

Devops Engineer

Devops engineer based in Leeds, passionate about agile and noSQL.

Work Experience

Devops Engineer2012 - Present

Sky Betting & Gaming, Leeds

Providing platform support to developers, building infrastructure and deployment tools.

IT Specialist2011 - 2012

Webanywhere (Workplace Learning), Keighley

Sysadmin, Drupal consultancy, systems automation, agile coaching, infrastructure design and architecture.

School & Certifications

University of Bradford2001 - 2005

BSc (hons) E-Commerce Technology

Specialising in cryptography and web application design.

Rackspace CloudU2012
Hurricane Electric IPv6 Sage2010

Skills

Chef

Ruby

Jenkins

Git

MongoDB

Redis

References

Github  >

My opensource showcase