Biography
Joseph Kavanagh is a recent (2020) Computer Science graduate with experience in, and a desire for, automation. A Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation who loves the problem-solving aspects of coding and is always thinking of ways to better the solution. Enjoys working collaboratively - each person may interpret a problem differently and so approach it in a different way, aiding in the quality of the solution produced.
Download my resumé .
- Python
- Go
- Java
- C++
- Automation
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1st Class BSc (Hons)
Computer Science - Durham University (2020)
Skills
Experience
DevOps engineer, coding tools to make tasks easier for others, with a bit of managing what my team deploys, how we deploy it, updating it and making sure that it’s working as expected. e.g. developed a tool in Python to generate reports with data from various DB’s for our Customers and setup scaling of these Python jobs with Celery workers.
~90% Coding, ~10% Ops.
Tools used:
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Docker
Setting up the business’ software using AWS services. They are a new company, aiming to provide sensors to companies along with a free app that anyone could download so that they can see whether a place that is subscribed to Flow is busy, in real time.
I was involved in:
- Setting up the database to store all of the data
- Creating the backend API that the app talks to when it wants to retrieve data
- Setting up authentication on this so that each user can only see and edit what they need to.
The business is still very early in development, so there isn’t much publicly available about this company.
Cyber Fundamentals program designed to develop strong cyber security related skills and experience. Included working with a company in the energy industry to develop a phishing solution.
Topics covered included:
- Internet and Hardware
- Networking
- Cyber Crime Industry
- Cloud architecture, management, and security
- Linux administration
- Defensive and Offensive Cyber
- JS/Python/C++/Bash
