Resume

Experience

• CloudOps Engineer III at EquipmentShare (June 2017 - present)

  • Setting up and maintaining servers for staging and production environments.
  • Maintaining a set of Ansible roles and playbooks for servers.
  • Writing tests for Ansible roles.
  • Setting up monitoring for company services.
  • Built tools to help developers in both Bash and Python.
  • Used Terraform and AWS CDK to manage Infrastructure as code.
  • Used and administered Gitlab as a code repository.
  • Helped administer Kubernetes clusters. Set up some services with pod autoscaling.

• Director of Operations at Delta Systems Group (July 2014 - June 2017)

  • In charge of hosting for over 350 sites on 65 servers.
  • Managing a small team in charge of setting up and maintaining servers, keeping uptime as high as possible, while making migrations and deployments at smooth and transparent as possible.
  • Managing email services as a reseller through Rackspace Office.
  • Develop and maintain customized deployments for a variety of systems using BitBucket Pipelines.
  • Develop WP plugins to achieve goals that cannot be met with existing plugins.
  • Architected multi-server hosting setups for big companies like GlowForge, McGraw-Hill Education, ChannelOne, Graf and Sons.
  • Setup automated SSL certs for numerous clients.
  • Set up in-depth server monitoring using Statsd, Collectd, Graphite/Carbon, Grafana, Seyren, and some custom scripts.

• Systems Administrator at Delta Systems Group (Jan 2011 - July 2014)

  • In charge of hosting for over 200 sites on over 20 servers.
  • Wrote replacement for web-hosting software (like Plesk or cPanel) in Puppet.
  • Set up PCI compliant servers.
  • Troubleshot downed servers, made adjustments to get the server back up ASAP, followed by analysis for preventing the problem from reoccurring.
  • Identified and mitigated malware intrusions on third party servers.

• Research Assistant for Dr. Chi-Ren Shyu (April 2007 - Jan 2008)

  • Created web/Google Earth front-end for GeoIRIS v4.
  • Used KML to link website’s AJAX-powered components with Google Earth.
  • Created web front-end for MaizeDB.

• Head Developer / Devops Engineer at Workplace.Watch (Oct 2014 - May 2015)

  • Worked on a office management system, including a restroom queueing system.

• Developer for A Major Guitar Lessons (Sept 2015 - present)

  • I donate my time developing a management system for lesson management and reporting.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science at University of Missouri Columbia, Dec 2010
  • Minor in Information Technology

Experience with Technologies:

• Distributions
  • Ubuntu
  • CentOS (RHEL-based)
• HTTP Servers
  • Apache
  • Nginx
  • Gunicorn
• Database Software
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • mongodb
• Programming Languages
  • PHP
    • APC/APCu
    • PHP opCache
  • Python
  • Node.js
  • Bash
• Automatic Configuration Software
  • Ansible
  • Puppet
• Security
  • openssl
  • letsencrypt
  • iptables
  • nmap
  • PCI, HIPAA, and SSAE16
• WordPress
  • Optimizations
    • DB Indexes
    • WP Super Cache
    • W3 Total Cache
    • Optimus Cache Prime
  • Security
    • Wordfence
    • Sucuri
    • Brute force mitigation
    • Patching vulnerabilities
    • Cleaning compromised sites
• Version Control Systems
  • Git
  • SVN
• Tools
  • Rsync
  • Vim (alias emacs='echo "Vim is love, Vim is life."; vim')
  • Screen
  • Parallel
• Coding Best Practices
  • PSR-4 for PHP using PHP Code Sniffer
  • ShellCheck for bash
  • Puppet-lint for Puppet
  • Ansible-lint for Ansible
• Monitoring
  • PagerDuty
  • Datadog
  • Statsd
  • Collectd
  • Carbon
  • Graphite
  • Grafana
  • Seyren
  • StatusCake
• Lsyncd
  • This is a pretty neat tool. It uses inotify to know when files change, and you can kick off custom commands to sync files.
• Microcopmuters
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Arduino