Christopher L. Email & Phone Number

Experienced Senior Systems Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the retail industry. Skilled in cloud based concepts and image/container engineering for specific purposes/goals(High available database service solutions that run within a cluster, Galera, Percona, MongoDB, Redis, etc...). Service layer forwarding and design(Load balancing a multitude of services on the fly behind haproxy, or any appliance to serve up VIP's, leastconn/roundrobin/etc...). Able to understand complex systems and design/implement high available programs/systems/services for specific purposes. Fully able to design service layers that communicate with each other for cloud based deployments or within a private type of cloud. Well versed in C, BASH, KSH, and Python. Task scheduler expert(swarm, rancher, kube, but emphasis on the Hashicorp stack (Consul/Nomad/Consul Template/Vault/Terraform)), with various platforms and supported models. Strong automation background as well(Puppet, Chef, Ansible, others...). Knowledge expert: Docker, Packer, Vagrant, Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL, CENTOS, Fedora(SYSTEMD), SLES, SLACKWARE), ESX, KVM, XEN, HP UX, IBM AIX. As well as a wide range of storage models, NAS, NFS, SAN (LUN presentation)(EMC/IBM/QNAP/Various others), and even further detail into newer style drivers to support CEPH and block type storage for container deployments (Service/Cloud deployments). Also an expert with persistent storage layers within cloud type services (Disaster Recovery). Expert in open source packages such as ReaR (Relax and Recover). Expert in programming automated backup/recovery solutions within various environments. Expert in designing and programming custom monitoring solutions. Expert in API design and creation, from FLASK, to raw PYTHON, to even BASH (yes, I can program/implement API's in BASH code). Able to program with an expert level of error code checking and self diagnosing code built in. Expert troubleshooter. A Jack of all Trades.