Systems Engineer

• Oct 2019 - Present

IT Systems Engineer

• Nov 2016 - Oct 2019

Took over and ran large-scale mission and life critical infrastructure, critical to vehicle operations, and anchored this solo for 18 months during which time SpaceX launched 17 rockets. Wrote procedures for imaging, configuration and hand off of mission and human life critical infrastructure. Updated puppet from 2.7 to 4.10 and converged multiple puppet codebases(mastered and masterless). Built automatically rekeying VPN network for the relay of vehicle telemetry, large scale(100s of TB) elasticsearch and kafka clusters, build-time automation processes, an in-house version of github's octocatalog diff(using docker containers approximating machine images for catalog application testing), and many CI/CD and test processes. Responsible engineer for elastic stack, linux configuration management, build-time machine / rootfs images, and associated build and CI/CD pipelines. Founding member of Site Reliability Engineering, a team embedded within the vehicle software group. "Father" of integration bot. Show less

Production Operations Engineer

• Oct 2015 - Nov 2016

Operations with a focus on the Resilient SaaS environment and engineering support. We twee verb Bruce Schneier's cloud here. Additionally work on internal IT: networking, phones, teleconferencing and internal support. Operations with a focus on the Resilient SaaS environment and engineering support. We twee verb Bruce Schneier's cloud here. Additionally work on internal IT: networking, phones, teleconferencing and internal support.

Unix System Administrator, CCIS

• Jun 2014 - Oct 2015

College of Computer and Information Science. Advise/support role for faculty and staff. Primary maintainer of UNIX/Linux infrastructure: Desktops/Lab Machines, DNS, DHCP, OpenLDAP, software load balancers, puppet and foreman, Atlassian applications, GitHub enterprise, svn/trac, multiple LAMP stacks, Solaris infrastructure, mail infrastructure(zimbra/exim/mailman), monitoring. Backup for network support. Wrote a complete identity management solution. College of Computer and Information Science. Advise/support role for faculty and staff. Primary maintainer of UNIX/Linux infrastructure: Desktops/Lab Machines, DNS, DHCP, OpenLDAP, software load balancers, puppet and foreman, Atlassian applications, GitHub enterprise, svn/trac, multiple LAMP stacks, Solaris infrastructure, mail infrastructure(zimbra/exim/mailman), monitoring. Backup for network support. Wrote a complete identity management solution.

Senior Systems and Network Administrator

• Jul 2010 - Jun 2014

Support servers in a mixed Windows/Linux(EL and Debian/Ubuntu)/OSX environment, maintain a multi-site network with a class B of public address space, extend open source software, provide developer support across a range of skill levels. Support servers in a mixed Windows/Linux(EL and Debian/Ubuntu)/OSX environment, maintain a multi-site network with a class B of public address space, extend open source software, provide developer support across a range of skill levels.

System Administrator, Network and Security

• Feb 2006 - Nov 2008

Support for web applications and Linux servers distributed across multiple continents. Keeper of the keys. Support for web applications and Linux servers distributed across multiple continents. Keeper of the keys.

Software Engineer

• Nov 2001 - Aug 2005

Dial-up ISP. Junior System and Network Administrator. Teleco switching and bridging code. Extend and maintain Asterisk ACD system. Dial-up ISP. Junior System and Network Administrator. Teleco switching and bridging code. Extend and maintain Asterisk ACD system.