Mikel's Resume

Mikel B. Ward

London, UK

mikel@mikelward.com

Employment History

2022—present	Senior Software Engineer Google, London, UK Development of full-stack Web applications in C++, Go, Java, and Angular/TypeScript Influencing and sharing incident response best practices On-call work Mentoring and teaching
2011—2022	Site Reliability Engineer Google, Mountain View, USA Development of internal systems applications in Python and Go Development of full-stack Web applications in C++, Go, Polymer, and Angular/TypeScript Maintenance and provisioning of DNS, DHCP, IRC, load balancing, and other services System monitoring and alerting Disaster recovery testing Administration of Linux production systems On-call work
2010—2011	Student, Master of Information Technology University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia Learned Java, Python, and Haskell Revised Algorithms and Networking First Class Honors (H1) for all subjects
2007—2010	Systems Engineer Aconex, Melbourne, Australia Administration of Java-based Web application Administration of Linux and Windows production servers Development of in-house tools Documentation and development of processes System monitoring and alerting On-call work
2003—2007	Systems Administrator ABCorp, Highett, Australia Administration of AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Windows servers Maintenance of UNIX server and Windows client software in C++ Development of Web sites in PHP Telephone support and staff training
2000—2003	Trainee Software Engineer Adacel Technologies, Wodonga, Australia Maintenance of IRIX and Linux systems applications in C++ and Perl Administration of Red Hat Linux servers
2000	Systems Engineer Celvin Technologies, Wy Yung, Australia Planning and rollout of 13 site ISDN WAN Installation and maintenance of Windows servers On-site technical support and user training

Qualifications

2006, 2008, 2011	Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
2011	Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT)
2010—2011	Postgraduate Certificate of Information Technology University of Melbourne
2004—2007	Bachelor of Computer Science Monash University
2002	Certificate of Software Engineering Melbourne University Private

Skills

Linux (Debian, Red Hat, etc.), BSD, Unix, and Windows
Programming (C, C++, Go, Java, Perl, Python, Bash, etc.)
Networking (TCP/IP, firewalls, IPv6, etc.)
Web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Polymer, Angular, etc.)
Services (DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, mail, NFS, SSH, etc.)
Monitoring (PCP, Nagios, Borgmon, Prometheus, etc.)

Awards

Perfect score, UNIX Tools, Monash University
Perfect score, Red Hat Certified Engineer, Red Hat Learning Services

Other

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Referees

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