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  • example1

    Android Development

    As soon as I heard about the Android OS and it's availability of phones I immediately switched from Windows HTC phones to the G1.
    With the availability of the SDK and the openness of the market I started writing applications;
    # Rhybudd - An application to manage a Zenoss installation
    # Cyllell - An application work the OpsCode Chef platform
    # Airsoft - Several applications that leverage the Airbana API

  • example2

    SysAdmin / DevOps

    Every since I saved enough money to buy an ISA 10BASE2 network card and got two computers to establish a TCP connection I've been hooked.

    Since then I've worked with most OS's except main frames, with network gear from lowly 10/100 switches to Cisco 6500's and BigIP F5's.

    Now I spend my days (& nights) managing & improving the DataSift platform.

  • example3

    Embedded Development

    PHP and Java are nice languages to work with but they don't have the raw appeal of working with lower level languages. To that end I try writing little applications in C++ for small embedded boards such as the TS-7553 and others.

    My favorite project to date is the DataSift Visualisation.

  • example4

    Airsoft Stuff

    Airbana is a series of applications and websites designed to allow fellow airsofters to add, edit, update and delete information about Airsoft Sites, Events and more.

    The primary project is the Airbana Airsoft Map which has a complementary API and Android app.

Twitter

SysAdmin by day (and night!), aficionado of extra hot chilli peppers and casual Airsoft Skirmisher

My name is Gareth Llewellyn and I'm a Senior Operations Engineer at DataSift.com managing our core server estate, working with software such as nginx, haproxy, Varnish, mySQL, Redis, zeroMQ, Chef etc; networking hardware including BIG IP F5 load balancers, Cisco 3750 switches, 5510 firewalls, HP SANs as well as a variety of server hardware to handle the workload of filtering, augmenting, delivering and storing multiple simultaneous real time data streams such as the Twitter firehose.


In my spare time I like to write Android applications, dabble with embedded C++ and maintain some LAMP applications.


To try and maintain some semblance of an active lifestyle I also participate in Airsoft. Which is a sport in which participants shoot round non-metallic pellets fired from replica firearms.

Gameplay varies in style and composition but often range from short-term skirmishes on the battlefield often involve the use of common military tactics to achieve objectives set in each game.

Other Sources of Information;

No Facebook?

Call me paranoid but there's something about putting enough information to socially engineer my friends, family and banking instituions all in one place that makes me nervous.

So far everyone tells me 'Oh but I put fake information in there' or 'I have my privacy settings right' even if you put a fake birth date in your profile (which is against the TOS) there is nothing stopping a friend posting on your 'wall' about your birthday, or mentioning a school reunion etc.





It's not paranoia if they really are after you....