Conall O'Brien

Site Reliability Engineer at Google

Ireland

Current
  • Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Past
  • Systems Administrator at Google
  • Systems & Network Administrator at School of Mathematics, Trinity College
  • IT Consultant (Self-employed)
  • Systems & Network Administrator (Consultant) at InfoCAD Data Ltd
  • Systems Engineer (Contractor) at Critical Path
Education
  • Trinity College, Dublin
  • Blackrock College
  • Children's House
Connections
244 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Conall O'Brien’s Summary

Please don't contact me unless I've actually met you, preferably more than once.

Recruiters: Please do not contact me with job offers, I'm very happy in my current position.


Possesses multiple alternate egos:

Linux/Unix Systems Administrator
Debian Package Maintainer
SAGE-IE Events Coordinator
Insatiable computer nerd

Conall O'Brien’s Specialties:

Systems Design, Automation, Scaling Solutions, Monitoring, Customer Service,

Profficient with FreeBSD, Linux (many flavours including Debian, Ubuntu and others), MacOS X


Conall O'Brien’s Experience

  • Site Reliability Engineer

    Google

    (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

    July 2009Present (5 months)

    Member of traffic SRE, an elite team of ninja sysadmins who keep google.com always on the air

  • Systems Administrator

    Google

    (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

    June 2006June 2009 (3 years 1 month)

    Member of the SysOps Team, a global team of sysadmins who maintain, design and develop the internal IT infrastructure to support Google employees.

  • Systems & Network Administrator

    School of Mathematics, Trinity College

    (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2004June 2006 (2 years )

    Tamed FreeBSD and Debian Linux servers and Cisco powered networks (wired and wireless), provided IT support to Dept students and staff, taught Unix tutorials to college freshman and liased with IT staff from other college Depts

  • IT Consultant

    Self-employed

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 1998June 2006 (8 years 1 month)

    Free Lance IT Consultant who worked with various small business to provide on demand IT experience, expertise and advice within various industries including the Irish Building, Education, Legal and Health sectors.

  • Systems & Network Administrator (Consultant)

    InfoCAD Data Ltd

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 1998June 2006 (8 years 2 months)

    Consulting sysadmin and occasional software developer who worked onsite with clients

  • Systems Engineer (Contractor)

    Critical Path

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CPTH.OB; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 2004July 2004 (2 months)


Conall O'Brien’s Education

  • Trinity College, Dublin

    BA , Computer Science , 20012006

  • Blackrock College

    19902001

  • Children's House

    Montessori School 19861990


Additional Information

Conall O'Brien’s Websites:

Conall O'Brien’s Interests:

Technology, Open Source, Photography, Travel, Music, Films, TV, Ethnic Food

Conall O'Brien’s Groups:

SAGE-IE, sysadmin.ie, LOPSA, SAGE, USENIX, ILUG, ICS

  •    The System Administrators Guild of Ireland
  •    Irish Linux Users Group
  •    Linux Expert
  •    Googlers & Xooglers
  •    Trinity College Dublin - Alumni and Friends
  •    Blackrock College Alumni
  •    Nagios Users
  •    Google SRE

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