About
With over 25 years of experience in higher education and research, I started as a Unix Systems Administrator back in 1999 and have held various roles through to University-wide Linux Team Lead.
Throughout my career I've kept a dual focus on systems administration and software development, combining deep Linux expertise with a passion for programming and cloud technologies.
Beyond my core role I build software with modern tools and have a keen interest in cloud computing — and lately in the files that large language models are shipped in.
Projects
tensreftensref.org
How a tensor is stored: dtypes, byte layouts and metadata for safetensors, GGUF, NumPy, PyTorch, ONNX and the quantized weight packs inside them.
tenskittenskit.org
Five Unix-style utilities to list, extract, edit, compare, convert and quantize tensor containers. Written in Rust, generated from the same specifications as tensref.
Goldnode Packagespackages.goldnode.org
Signed apt, dnf and zypper repositories so tenskit installs and updates like any other system package.
Writing
Skills
AI & data
AI/LLM · MySQL · PostgreSQL
Infrastructure
Linux Administration · Networking · System Architecture · Docker · Bash
Cloud & DevOps
AWS · Cloud Computing · DevOps
Development
TypeScript · Node.js · React · SvelteKit · Full-Stack