- Acted as an SRE for ~7000 bare-metal Dell servers in seven datacenters worldwide- Created consul/sensu sidecars for kubernetes applications- Handled prod-IT side of migration of assets from Nomad to Kubernetes- Investigated Istio as a replacement load balancer for bare-metal Kubernetes cluster- Built a python-based machine learning system to act as a network anomaly detection mechanism, utilizing python-in-docker-on kubernetes controllers, Consul watches, Logstash parsing… Show more - Acted as an SRE for ~7000 bare-metal Dell servers in seven datacenters worldwide- Created consul/sensu sidecars for kubernetes applications- Handled prod-IT side of migration of assets from Nomad to Kubernetes- Investigated Istio as a replacement load balancer for bare-metal Kubernetes cluster- Built a python-based machine learning system to act as a network anomaly detection mechanism, utilizing python-in-docker-on kubernetes controllers, Consul watches, Logstash parsing, Elasticsearch storage/retention/search, Sensu monitoring, and pagerduty alerting- Rebuilt puppet3 modules into puppet5 DSL and applied to servers company-wide- Acted as one of several Elasticsearch administrators for three multi-TB clusters of 10+ nodes apiece, including the buildout of python/sensu/kubernetes based monitoring systems, rolling major-version upgrade of all clusters, maintenance of a python-based index whitelisting service, etc.- Performed heavy troubleshooting on and built multiple automation/remediation processes for Kubernetes/istio/metalLB/Helm, Terraform, Consul, nginx, Sensu, puppet, Nomad, Foreman, ELK stack, Graphite/Grafana- Hosted Puppet/Config management/Declarative programming training for developers- Seriously the list keeps going, Taboola is the university of modern SRE Show less

- Led a team of 7 employees to keep a ~3500 CentOS/Virtuozzo server datacenter up-and-running with 99.999% uptime- Researched, designed, and implemented an in-house dedicated server solution that allowed the company to enter into a top-of-the-line dedicated market and reduce server costs by 20%- Set up, and maintained a monitoring system (zabbix) to chart and aggregate bandwidth and power usage, bringing to light overcharging by vendors and saving the company several thousand dollars… Show more - Led a team of 7 employees to keep a ~3500 CentOS/Virtuozzo server datacenter up-and-running with 99.999% uptime- Researched, designed, and implemented an in-house dedicated server solution that allowed the company to enter into a top-of-the-line dedicated market and reduce server costs by 20%- Set up, and maintained a monitoring system (zabbix) to chart and aggregate bandwidth and power usage, bringing to light overcharging by vendors and saving the company several thousand dollars per month- Designed, built, implemented, revised, and maintained a complete inventory tracking system based on Elasticsearch, HTML/CSS, Javascript and PHP to reduce time overhead for techs, disorganization, fire hazards in the DC, and interfaced the system with existing business intelligence reporting in order to provide up-to-date inventory flow information to executive teams- Built a virtualized PXE system based on cobbler and MySQL in order to allow for remote, automated re-imaging of servers, hardware checks, and gathering of server information- Acted as point-of-contact for remote teams requiring datacenter information or work, and escalation point for techs with difficult tasks Show less