George Honeywood

Computer Scientist, Royal Holloway graduate. Currently working as an Infrastructure Assistant at GSA Capital.

(CV also available as a PDF.)

Experience

Infrastructure Assistant

GSA Capital
Sep 2023 — Present
London
  • Maintaining and monitoring internal infrastucture, including an extensive Linux estate, VMware cluster and Slurm compute cluster.
  • Promptly and professionally handling a wide range of internal user queries, across OS support, cluster compute, networking, and desktop support.
  • Config management via Puppet and Terraform.
  • Automation in Python, streamlining existing processes.
  • Datacenter work, racking & patching servers and appliances.

Junior Software Engineer

Cudo
Jul 2021 — Jul 2022
Bournemouth, Dorset
  • Helped develop their first Go microservice, as part of an agile team. This reduced risk exposure when exchanging user balances.
  • Added metrics to track performance data, using Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Worked on their Vue.js web app and Loopback-based API, fixing long-standing bugs and issues in the platform.
  • Implemented a Docker based testing workflow to ensure correctness in database interactions.

Junior Systems Administrator

Royal Holloway Physics Dept.
Oct 2019 — Jul 2021
Egham, Surrey
  • Helped with migration from legacy Nagios monitoring system to Icinga, to ensure service continuity.
  • Installed & imaged rack mounted servers for use within a Hadoop compute cluster.

References available on request.

Education

B.Sc. Computer Science (Year in Industry), 1st

Royal Holloway, University of London
Sep 2019 — Jul 2023
Egham, Surrey
  • Final Year Project: offline HTML5 map viewer app. I implemented a TypeScript parser for the binary Mapsforge file format, along with a HTML canvas-based map renderer.
  • Studied modules including: Software Language Engineering, Functional Programming, User-Centred Design, Multi-Agent Systems, Databases, and Operating Systems.

A-Levels

Bournemouth School Sixth Form
Sep 2017 — Aug 2019
Bournemouth, Dorset
  • Computer Science (B), Geography (B), Resistant Materials (C), and Physics (D)

Projects

Web Music Player

Created a Spotify-like online music player for your private music collection, with a Go backend and a Vue frontend. Has an album artwork view, and you can queue up songs.

The Good Map

Collaboratively developed a cross-platform mobile app in Flutter, to allow users to find ecofriendly establishments, using data from OpenStreetMap.

Employee Appraisal System

  • University project, worked as part of a 4-person team to create a web app, designed to evaluate employees of a company.
  • Developed an API in Flask to conform to a Requirements Specification and Design Description.

Hackathons

Pub Hub
collaborated on a tool designed to find the optimal route for a pub crawl, providing a solution for the travelling salesman problem.
Metamap
developed a location based social media app for Android, with the concept of only showing posts within a certain radius of the user.

Homelab

I administrate a headless server which hosts utilities and storage for my home network. It runs Proxmox VE as a hypervisor, with ZFS to provide storage. Each service runs in a separate LXC container, which provides some isolation, without the overhead of full VMs.
I also use a small VPS to run other services, like my personal website (that you are currently viewing!) and a WireGuard®︎ VPN.

Interests

  • Using and contributing to free & open-source software
  • Editing OpenStreetMap, using JOSM or Every Door