David Gibbons Email & Phone Number

New York, Us

New York, Us

New York, Us

New York, Us

I manage a small team of infrastructure engineers based in Portland and remote. Where we run and operate the AWS cloud based Kubernetes clusters used to support the workflows and pipelines to get music videos from content providers onto video platforms such as youtube.

New York, Us

Managed Kubernetes clusters using Terraform, ansible and AWS. Write and support tooling written in Go and Python. Support a build and deploy pipeline using GoCD, dockerhub and Github.

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Supported the Jenkins build and deploy pipeline for both dockerized ruby on rails and mobile applications. Architected, implemented and maintained Docker Swarm clusters supporting production workloads across AWS infrastructure built with Terraform, Packer and Puppet.

Tysons Corner, Va, Us

Deployed and managed solutions involving AWS, docker swarm, configuration management. Support Ruby, Java and Node based services running on a mixture of virtualized and cloud based services. Build and support tooling to assist with deployments, automation, scaling, monitoring and alerting.

Portland, Or, Us

Built tools to deploy stateful applications using boto, aws and chef as well as stateless applications using docker and elastic beanstalk. Maintained elasticsearch, mysql and tomcat systems. Migrated legacy nagios implementation to cloud based monitoring solution. Wrote custom monitoring extensions in ruby.

Tualatin, Oregon, Us

Portland, Or, Us

Technical lead responsible for directing the day to day operations of 5 administrators, 2 DBAs, and 1 Noc Tech. Implemented configuration management from ground up, scaling to 400 servers, with CFENGINE then rebuild and replaced with Puppet Enterprise. Setup and maintained distributed systems across multiple datacenters. Integrated VMware ESXi 5.1 into existing environments, virtualized majority of systems providing scalability and improving reliability.

Hillsboro, Or, Us

Managed an HPC data center for the production of feature films. Responsible for all company network, storage, compute, and communication systems. Championed and successfully migrated enterprise to new operating platforms such as OSX 10.5 and Centos 5. Leveraged configuration management tools to automate changes across the environment.

Hillsboro, Or, Us

Maintained and supported all aspects of compute infrastructure to create the studio’s first Stop Motion feature film. Worked closely with R&D, technical directors as well as concept and production artists to meet deadlines in rendering, content delivery and production schedules. Wrote ruby, python and shell scripts for special effects and compositing processes

Portland, Oregon, Us

Solely managed development and production Linux servers and networks for shared hosting and internal usage. Relocated network and server infrastructures resulting in enhanced performance, high availability, and simpler platform architecture. Wrote tools to manage, and deploy ruby applications shared hosting customers. Debugged custom and third party ruby applications and integrated into our shared environment.

Hosted and managed community resources for PostgreSQL community, including jabber server, development servers, build farm and software repositories. Configured database replication for clients. Setup Apache, PostgreSQL, and Postfix for shared hosting clients. Designed, upgraded, and maintained client mail, web, and file servers on-site and remotely as needed.

Managed dedicated and shared hosting servers for clients in a datacenter environment. Maintained NT/Solaris/Linux environments. Configured and sold white-label rack mount servers optimized for customer purposes.