We continue our staff blog series with a look at the hearty code-wizards that manage and maintain our servers.

Meet Ian

Name: Ian Mckay

Role: System Administrator

Interests/Hobbies: Programming, watching TV (Netflix)

Favourite Music/Bands: Owl City, Seth Sentry, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop

Favourite Movies/TV shows: Shawshank Redemption, Air Crash Investigations, 24

Favourite Sports: Golf

Favourite Videogames: Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario

Favourite Food: Steak

Questions:

Where did you start with Crucial?

SysAdmin.

What is your best memory with Crucial?

Dressing up as a pirate and running around the city — our team building event; the treasure hunt.

What is your favourite thing about Crucial?

Getting to solve customers problems.

What do you like the most about what you do at Crucial?

Working with technology and engineering solutions to complex problems.

What was the most interesting job you had before Crucial?

SysAdmin for a software development company.

What is your proudest moment in life?

Graduating from uni.

What is your funniest/silliest moment in life?

Performing a Dance Dance Revolution song backwards.

What is one thing you couldn’t live without?

Weekends.

If you could have dinner with any fictional or nonfictional character, who would it be and what would you eat?

Gordon Ramsay, and a delicious Fillet steak.

Which company value resonates most with you?

Don’t screw the customer.

How would you sum up Crucial in three words?

Innovative. Fast. Fun.

Meet Alex

Name: Alex Gardner

Role: System Administrator

Interests/Hobbies: Medieval Reenactment, Archery

Favourite Music/Bands: Metal, Electro + Techno

Favourite Movies/TV shows: Game of Thrones, Walking Dead

Favourite Sports: Archery

Favourite Videogames: Borderlands, Minecraft, World of Warships

Favourite Food: Bacon, and other food with bacon.

Questions:

Where did you start with Crucial?

Tech Support, and I moved my way into SysAdmin.

What is your best memory with Crucial?

All the team-building events — treasure hunt, Amazing Race.

What is your favourite thing about Crucial?

I just like how it’s a small company, so the stuff that I work on matters more.

What do you like the most about what you do at Crucial?

Following on from above, just working on projects that include building and maintaining Crucial products.

What was the most interesting job you had before Crucial?

Used to work at an abattoir.

What is your proudest moment in life?

Moving to Sydney from Adelaide.

What is your funniest/silliest moment in life?

You know the broken lightsaber we have? Yeah, that was me.

What is one thing you couldn’t live without?

The Internet and a computer.

If you could have dinner with any fictional or nonfictional character, who would it be and what would you eat?

Someone like a King, maybe Richard III, and we’d eat whatever we want because I’m eating with the king!

Which company value resonates most with you?

Make complex simple — because a lot of what I’m doing at the moment is automation, so it’s pretty much running a script and it’ll do everything for you.

How would you sum up Crucial in three words?

Get sh*t done.

If you’re interested in joining the Crucial family, visit our careers page [here].