Resume / CV

Experience Link to heading

Senior DevOps Engineer Jan 2017 - Dec 2022 Link to heading

  • Built and maintained petabyte-scale Ceph clusters for over 5 years
  • Implemented Jenkins pipeline to streamline builds of Ceph for R&D and patching hot-fixes
  • Worked with multiple CDNs delivering content, stored on Ceph
  • Modified vendor software to use the S3 protocol instead of local storage
  • Automated many systems tasks into Ansible, Salt, and Puppet
  • Built and maintained many OpenStack and Kubernetes clusters
  • Built and maintained a Prometheus/Grafana/Thanos cluster
  • Implemented HashiCorp Vault for storing sensitive data
  • Reverse-engineered industrial protocols to monitor sensitive equipment
  • Got my name on the back of the Ceph Qunicy T-shirt

Junior Network Engineer Jan 2015 - Dec 2017 Link to heading

  • Worked with the senior engineer to arrange peering agreements
  • Performed basic networking tasks, CCNA level
  • Created an automated network testing tool to diagnose connectivity problems
  • Leveraged Netflow, sFlow, ELK, pmacct, and PostgreSQL databases to do network monitoring and analytics
  • Greatly improved monitoring and alerting through a combination of Nagios, Prometheus, and Observium
  • Wrote custom APIs to maintain complex routing decisions through BGP
  • Version-controlled changes into GitLab with RANCiD

Linux System Administrator May 2010 - Jan 2015 Link to heading

  • Took over as lead point of contact for our top revenue clients
  • Visited client offices around the world to help consult on issues
  • Furthered company knowledge on MySQL replication, point-in-time-recovery
  • Go-to person for strange problems encompassing many domains
  • Administered thousands of servers, mostly Linux, Apache HTTPd and Tomcat, MySQL, and PHP

Technical Skills Link to heading

Languages: Python, Go, C/C++, SQL (Postgres, MySQL), Java, HTML/CSS, Bash, Perl, PHP

Libraries: pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Flask, requests, Django, WordPress

Environments: CentOS/RHEL/Oracle/Amazon Linux, Debian/Ubuntu Linux, FreeBSD, OpenStack, AWS, GCS, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Server Technologies: Ceph, nginx, OpenResty, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, Prometheus, Ansible, Nagios, check_mk, Elasticsearch/ELK

Certifications Link to heading

Red Hat Accredited Professional Link to heading

  • Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Red Hat Ceph Storage
  • Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Cloud Infrastructure
  • Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Container Platform Deployment
  • Red Hat Delivery Specialist - Automation