Experience

• Monitored data center premises and the servers within, including Linux, Windows Enterprise, and AS400 machines, and contacted a higher administrator if any issues arised Ensured successful completion of daily, weekly, and monthly backups Created a from scratch python solution to help automate the process of ensuring the successful completion of said backups Conducted bi-hourly walks through the data center to ensure proper physical functioning of all company owned equipment Operated the company help desk email by routing issues to the correct places, typically by creating tickets in the company’s ticketing system Show less



• Facilitated a better gaming experience for several tens of thousands of unique monthly players by writing server side and client side anticheat, helped in part by reverse engineering cheats through use of disassemblers, such as IDA, Ghidra, and Cutter Fixed and curbed in-game exploits, such as malicious clients crashing servers, or malicious servers sending malicious data to clients. Created a from scratch GitLab-based self-hosted CI/CD solution, to facilitate easier development for game programmers Show less



• I own and solely operate a small network of online gameservers for the video games Team Fortress 2, Quake Live, and others, hosted on a personal Debian 11 machine in Chicago



• Maintained the entirety of the project’s infrastructure, consisting of bare-metal hardware scattered around the world, running gameservers for the popular online video game Team Fortress 2, by Valve Software, averaging at peak around 50,000 unique players monthly Conducted code reviews of C++ and SourcePawn code



• I was responsible for continuous operation and maintenance of a large network of online game servers for a large user base with the goal of near 100% uptime. I was further responsible for software development for any various wants, needs, or issues that resulted from the maintenance and improvement of the aforementioned server network.



• Was responsible for fixing, inventorying, and factory resetting tens of thousands of MacBooks and Windows machines scattered across the Upper Arlington School District. Wrote a simple script from scratch to automate said process, increasing efficiency