unix@rowly.eu
OPEN TO CONTRACT WORK
rowly@uk:~$ whoami

Unix & Linux infrastructure

Freelance Systems Administrator — UK, on-site across Europe

Thirty-eight years keeping Solaris, Linux and the systems built on top of them running — for banks, telecoms carriers, aerospace manufacturers and government departments. No framework, no platform, just the machines that everything else depends on.

38
Years in the field
25+
Contracts completed
6
Countries on-site
4
Sectors: bank / telco / aero / gov

Career log

Reverse-chronological, same as the systems it was built on. Every line is a real contract.

tail -f /var/log/career.log — entries

Technical areas

Core skills, listed the way three decades of habit lists everything else.

packageyearsdescription

Sectors worked

Regulated, unforgiving environments where downtime has a cost attached.

BANKING
Bank of America, European Central Bank, Britannia Building Society
TELECOMS
Virgin Media, Ericsson, KPN Orange (Base)
AEROSPACE / DEFENCE
Rolls-Royce (via EDS), British Aerospace (via CSC), GEC Sensors
GOVERNMENT
HMRC (SC-cleared), Vivista public-sector programme
LOGISTICS & RETAIL
TNT Express, AAH Pharmaceuticals
EDUCATION
University of Leicester

Get in touch

Available for contract and permanent roles.

baseUnited Kingdom
coversUK & on-site EU
focusSolaris, Linux, enterprise infra
statusopen to contract work

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