$ whoami → Olly Keran

Platform engineer building reliable Linux infrastructure.

I turn hand-run operations into repeatable, tested automation that teams can ship onto.

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linux hosts managed
400+
running production infra
4 yrs
projects shipped
8

01 / selected work

Featured projects

02 / docker

Client Project Containers

Per-customer Docker full dev stacks with compose files, build defaults, and default anonymised data imports.

docker · docker compose · cmake · ninja

03 / python

Escrow Packager

Python CLI and Docker helper that builds release escrow bundles per client, archiving previous runs and emitting auditable artifacts.

python · docker · cli · cvs

04 / ansible

High Availability

Ansible roles to stand up product nodes in a HA configuration.

ansible · postgresql · rabbitmq · corosync

deploy pipeline

live
  1. checkout code
  2. verify node
  3. detect dependency changes
  4. install dependencies
  5. build site
  6. deploy to web root
  7. prune old backups
  8. reload nginx
  9. verify deployment
commit
2d65201
runner
self-hosted
built

Generated at build time from this site's GitHub Actions workflow. Pushes to master build on a self-hosted runner and ship behind nginx.

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02 / stack

Core skills

system administration

  • Linux (RHEL, SUSE, Debian)
  • Windows Server
  • Virtualization (KVM, VMWare, Xen)
  • OpenVMS

automation & scripting

  • Bash
  • Python
  • Go
  • Ansible

containerization

  • Docker
  • Docker Swarm
  • Podman
  • Kubernetes

monitoring & performance

  • Nagios
  • Zabbix
  • Performance profiling
  • Resource optimization

cloud

  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon S3
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Oracle Cloud

development

  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Source control (Git)
  • IaC Reviewer
  • Package maintainer
  • Repository maintainer

03 / contact

Need infrastructure that runs itself?

I'm open to platform engineering roles and contract work around automation, reliability and delivery pipelines.

Contact me