James Mackie

James Mackie is a seasoned professional with over 7 years of experience working with Linux and Solaris systems, including Solaris 9 and 10, RHEL4/5/6, RHCE, and Debian. He also possesses extensive expertise in fundamental IT infrastructure such as DNS, DHCP, PXE, proxy servers, Apache and Tomcat web servers, mail servers, Samba servers, NFS servers, and network infrastructure.

With a strong background in infrastructure design, refactoring, and task automation spanning over 5 years, James also has valuable experience in network and DNS load balancers, notably with F5 BigIP, adding to his diverse skill set. Furthermore, he has spent a year delving into software development, proficient in languages like Java, PHP, and Python.

He is particularly interested in highly scaled and highly available infrastructure and design, aiming to grow his leadership capabilities and leverage his knowledge to enhance IT infrastructure. James specializes in high-scale network and compute infrastructure, Linux, Solaris, network and DNS load balancers, web technologies, IT security practices, and implementation.

James Mackie holds a Bachelor's in Software Engineering Communications from the QUT Faculty of Education and has also studied at Northside Christian College. He has held significant roles in reputable organizations including Senior Systems Engineer at Atlassian, Unix System Engineer at Virgin Australia and the University of Queensland, Software Developer at Queensland University of Technology, and various other positions at Queensland University of Technology and CSIRO.

To explore more of his technical insights and contributions, you can visit his technical blog at http://standardinput.blogspot.com.au/ and access his projects on Github at https://github.com/jcmackie.