Adam Mcbride Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, US

SRE, Developer Tooling and Security Operations

Working daily with the engineering team to help keep weekly deployments to our 3 pre-production environments and production environment moving while building new and maintaining existing infrastructure in the data center.Working with a small operations team to keep a highly secure environment running using lots of different tools:- Chef for server.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

• Consolidated 3 separate hosted solutions and one collocation facility into a new, small footprint collocation and Amazon EC2 environment.
• Setup automation scripts in Rightscale for provisioning new machines in minutes when EC2 instances fail or are outgrown
• Setup Nagios and Cacti to monitor all aspects of physical server and EC2 instances
• Setup and maintained billions of rows of data in MySQL databases using Percona’s MySQL distribution on several physical machines and EC2 instances using a mixture of InnoDB and MyISAM storage engines.
• Setup a simple backup scheme using Amazon S3.
• Maintained secure remote access of office and the collocation facility using a mixture of Cisco ASA and Juniper SRX firewalls.

San Mateo, CA, US

• Moved data center operations from a small data center in Sacramento to Savvis Santa Clara within 2 months of starting. Reduced monthly collocation fees by over 75% allowing for ROI of new hardware in 4 months.
• Negotiated early termination on 3 data center contracts saving many thousands of dollars.
• Setup and maintained an multi-node memcached cluster running almost 200GB of memory
• Setup and maintained 30 front end mobile web servers running Nginx with php-cgi, handling well over 50 million impressions per day.
• Built two multi-node Hadoop HDFS clusters for several hundred gigabytes of data to be stored in HBase tables.
• Setup several healthchecks to ensure that applications and services were actually retuning correct values for given inputs using bash and php scripting.

Building new server infrastructure from the ground up to support a newly designed web user interface and back-end environment for salesgenie.com while managing the Salesgenie Infrastructure team.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Setup and maintain secure local and remote computing environments with Cisco core routers and switches including IPSEC VPN tunnels between all sites.
• Setup and maintained all live Linux Apache and Tomcat web servers using load balancing and redundancy techniques.
• Setup Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Windows Server 2003 Active directory infrastructure with Global replication to remote sites in Europe and Asia.
• Setup and managed live DNS (BIND 9.x) and mail relays (Postfix 2.x) for several domains.
• Setup and maintained a custom monitoring infrastructure including Nagios, MRTG, Awstats and other SNMP based programs for analyzing all server/computer health characteristics, network load/connectivity problems, and.
• Planned, setup and maintained a Symantec NetBackup solution with a large tape library for archival and disaster recovery backups of Exchange email, Linux database servers, file servers etc.

Rosh Haayin, TLV District, IL

• Working full time troubleshooting, designing, and maintaining large corporate networking solutions.
• Providing support at the desktop user level troubleshooting small problems while keeping several high end Mail, DNS and application servers running at all times.
• Working with several financial institutions and programs like Eze Castle, Bloomberg, Nyfix to provide trading function to Hedge Fund and Mutual Fund clients.

Bs, Computer Engineering

Computer Engineering