Conall O'Brien

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

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Education

Trinity College, Dublin
Blackrock College
Children's House

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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 2009 — Present (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 2006 — June 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 2004 — June 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 1998 — June 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 1998 — June 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 2004 — July 2004 (2 months)