I'm Iain. I'm I was most recently was a software engineer @grafana. I'm I was on the Platform team, which provides resources for other engineering teams at the company to deploy their stuff into.

I'm also a Debian Developer and an Ubuntu Core Developer.

In a former life, for a very long time I was an engineer on the desktop team at Canonical, where we made Ubuntu desktop.

• Linux distributions
  • Ubuntu
  • Debian
• Debian packaging
• GNOME and desktop Linux in general
• CI/CD, in particular:
  • How to manage big ol' monorepos of CI code and deployment manifests
  • What it's like to, and whether it's sensible to, onboard a big engineering organisation to (ephemeral, autoscaling) self-hosted GitHub Actions runners.
  • The autopkgtest.ubuntu.com system and how it works
• Why daytime naps are great
• How cats > dogs.

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