Jon Topper

Jon Topper

Director at The Scale Factory Ltd

London, United Kingdom

Current
  • Director at The Scale Factory Ltd
Past
  • Consultant Sysadmin at Songkick.com
  • Senior Systems Administrator at Trutap Ltd
  • Senior Network and Systems Engineer at Legend Communications plc
  • Support Manager / Software Developer at Designer Servers Ltd
Education
  • The University of Manchester
Connections
117 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Jon Topper’s Summary

Linux systems and network specialist, with particular experience in virtualisation and scalable web applications. Strong team player, with good grasp of tools for collaborative working. Most comfortable in startup and small-business environments.

Jon Topper’s Specialties:

server architecture, software architecture, systems administration, troubleshooting, linux, perl, RedHat, scale, virtualization, collaborative working, trac, subversion, svn, kickstart


Jon Topper’s Experience

  • Director

    The Scale Factory Ltd

    (Internet industry)

    January 2009Present (7 months)

    The Scale Factory is a small Linux consultancy, specialising in making small LAMP applications scale to a larger architecture. We have particular expertise in automated deployment, centralised administration and monitoring, load balancing, and fault tolerance. We also work heavily with virtualisation solutions and cloud computing deployments.

  • Consultant Sysadmin

    Songkick.com

    (Internet industry)

    20092009 (less than a year)

  • Senior Systems Administrator

    Trutap Ltd

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    November 2005December 2008 (3 years 2 months)

    Early on, responsible for:

    * Design and deployment of load balanced, highly-available LAMP architecture
    * Development of customer- and staff-facing web interfaces, using the Perl Catalyst framework
    * Internal networking and IT
    * Instigation and maintenance of company-wide software development, release engineering and bug tracking process based on Subversion and Trac

    Later in the company's development, following a round of funding, I hired and ran a small systems team, whose responsibilities (in addition to the above) included:

    * Design, build and support of LAMP platform for a second generation product, heavily based on VMWare ESX
    * Maintaining an RPM package repository of in-house and locally-built software
    * Internal networking and IT for Windows, Linux and Mac users across three locations, with support for remote workers
    * Profiling for performance improvement, and platform troubleshooting

  • Senior Network and Systems Engineer

    Legend Communications plc

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; BRV.L; Internet industry)

    August 2004November 2005 (1 year 4 months)

    * Day-to-day running of a network of 200 servers, used by around 3,500 reseller customers covering some 117,000 domains
    * Deployment of new servers in Manchester and London
    * Involved in the architecture and deployment of new system solutions for integration of multiple businesses inside the Legend group onto one common platform.
    * Providing training for new staff

  • Support Manager / Software Developer

    Designer Servers Ltd

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    June 2001August 2004 (3 years 3 months)

    * Developed control panel software (over 20,000 lines of OO Perl, C/C++ and XSL)
    * Managed team of up to 5 support engineers


Jon Topper’s Education

  • The University of Manchester

    19972001


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British Computer Society

  •    Perl Mongers
  •    Linux Expert

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