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Laurie Odgers

Hi, I'm Laurie.

I'm an IT Consultant with over 20 years experience. I commenced my career in 2000.

I live by Albert Einstein's motto "Once you stop learning, you start dying".

I have many years of experience operating and maintaining an ASX200 listed company's customer facing infrastructure. I am immensely proud of the product and systems I have helped to create for this company and how little maintenance is now required, resulting in a very respectable "five nines" (99.999%) uptime.

In September of 2021 I made the move to become a full time Freelance IT Consultant which has resulted in excellent outcomes all round.

Key Experience

My key experience includes (but is not limited to):

Open Source Projects

Open source is at the core of my occupation, and I am proud to have been involved in the following open source projects:

IT Consultant – Telecommunications and Infrastructure

September 2021 – Present

After working with my clients as a Freelance Consultant for many years, in mid 2021 I was presented with the unique opportunity to move into a full time self employed IT Consultant role. This career shift has proven to be an excellent outcome for both myself and my clients as I can now give undivided attention to their requirements.

I pride myself on delivering the best and most thorough outcomes possible through thorough discussion of the client's requirements, then applying my extensive knowledge of IT and Telecommunications to achieve the most desirable results.

Please contact me for a full list of key projects I have worked on.

Development Manager/Senior DevOps Engineer - Uniti Group

July 2017 – September 2021

I was promoted to the position of Development Manager in 2020 which allowed me the freedom to plan and execute the next phase of the UWL infrastructure. I pride myself on the impact I had in drastically improving the software, network and infrastructure availability, but more importantly the relationships forged while doing so.

My role at UWL involved combining DevOps processes with SRE practices in order to architect and develop rock solid telecommunications infrastructure. The unique position I held as a Telco DevOps Engineer meant I had to employ extensive testing and repeatable processes in order to minimise downtime as Telco presents some very unique challenges when compared with a standard software house.

In this role I was challenged with performing many migrations to and from various cloud providers with zero downtime, and I am immensely proud of the “five nines” (99.999%) uptime in which I had a crucial role in achieving.

Some key projects I was involved in during my time at UWL include:

Reddog Technology

October 2015 – June 2017

Reddog Technology was a start-up focused on a variety of projects; each had their own goals and intended audience. I was hired by Reddog in 2015 to develop Tredly, an open source containerisation software suite for FreeBSD based upon Jails.

Open Source Project: Tredly

Tredly is an open source Bash/Python software suite, developed to support the VUID software platform, which was developed by Reddog Engineers. Tredly is a software suite consisting of various parts, each performing their own specific duties. Tredly makes use of BSD Jails which have been integral to BSD systems for decades, and pre-dates the release of Docker by 13 years.

Tredly is analogous to, but had a number of advantages over Docker at the time of development; such as being built on a secure platform which has been in development for decades, the ability to forward ports via the Tredlyfile, and configuration of a load-balancer/http reverse proxy via the Tredlyfile. Due to the re-use of common Operating System files, Tredly images are also significantly smaller than even Alpine Docker images, as only the files which are specific to the container are necessary inside the image.

Since Tredly is an open source product, I encourage you to peruse the source code on Github.

My roles during development of Tredly included:

Project: Rulerr

Rulerr was a risk profiling, reporting, and auditing platform focused on large Enterprise/Government. Rulerr integrated with various cloud APIs in order to assess all security risks which are present to the customer.

My roles during development of Rulerr included:

Employment History

For brevity I have included my 3 most recent roles above. If you wish to obtain my full employment history please don't hesitate to contact me.