Benjamin Guilfoyle - Resume
Personal Statement
Observability engineer with five years of experience delivering resilient scalable solutions. My is in IT monitoring, with an astrophysics, and data analysis education to support it. Solving problems is my goal.
Work Experience
Unum Infrastructure Engineer
June 2021 - Present
This focuses on observability engineering at scale. Large scale monitoring deployments. Trend analysis of monitoring data. Vendor tools include Cribl, Splunk, Dynatrace, Nagios XI and SolarWinds.
Worked on large scale AI systems for autonomous incident analysis and remediation.
Unum IT Operations & Data Dashboarding
June 2021 - November 2021
This task involves the use of Service Now, Nagios Xi, Solar Winds, Dynatrace, and SCOM data. Data was compiled into a compact dashboard to aid in IT diagnostics, and informing our customers of their monitors, status, and severity.
Clericus Data Visualisation
July 2019 - August 2019
Undertook 6 weeks work in the Digital Humanities Institute under Professor Thomas O’Connor. Here I analyzed the data of over 9000 priests who were ordained in St Patrick's University over the past 100 years. I constructed plots based on ordinations, grades, and demographics with the aim of spotting trends in the population over time. The tools I made are planned to be implemented in a web based application to track the history of priests in Ireland.
Collaborative Annotation UI/UX Designer
June 2019 - July 2019
For 4 weeks in the Summer of 2019. Worked as the UX/UI designer in the Maynooth University Computer Science department. Here I designed a piece of collaborative annotation software with 3 other developers. The project entailed designing an in browser piece of software to promote learning between groups of students through the use of collaborative annotation. The software is planned to go on trial in the coming years as part of a future project to test if collaborate annotation is more effective than traditional teaching methods.
Education
Maynooth University - HDip Data Analytics
Pursuing a degree in data analytics to bolster the abilities learned in my BSc, and apply it to industry. This course covers, R, spatial databases, data analysis techniques, and machine learning.
Maynooth University - BSc Physics with Astrophysics
As part of my degree I study: Computer Science, Theoretical Physics, Experimental Physics and Mathematics. I am currently in my final year, working on my thesis into the surface photometry of Seyfert Galaxies.
Training/Qualifications
Cribl Certified Engineer Cribl Certified Stream Admin Cribl Certified Edge Admin Cribl Certified User
Splunk Fundamentals Splunk REST API Splunk Cloud Administration Splunk Data Administration Splunk Search Optimization Splunk Visualization & Alerting
ITIL 4
References
Unum Reference
Available on request