Donald Webster Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca

In 2008, I joined Facebook as a Site Reliability Engineer. Our team was responsible for monitoring the site 24/7 and responding to all issues impacting it.In 2011, I moved to the Release Engineering team and was responsible for the daily push of code to the website. Eventually, we moved to two daily pushes and I'm now also responsible for Facebook and Messenger for Android releases.

Having just started here, I am still trying to figure out exactly what this position entails and involves. So far, it seems to be primarily Windows, but with a bit of Linux and a goal of having more in the way of Linux. My position seems like it will alternate between monitoring and fixing problems and working on projects every week. The main software supported is Intellisync for cellular carriers with non-blackberry type smart phones.

This position was a Systems Administration position in a very unique and varied environment. I mainly worked on Linux and Unix systems, but had some Windows responsibilities as well. These systems almost all interacted in some way with good old mainframes, of which I learned a little about while there. I never actually got comfortable enough with them, nor do I understand more than the very basics of them. It was a great position with a wide variety of problems, hardware, software and challenges.

This position was at a glorified call center. They were looking for people with good experience in Windows, Linux and Unix and payed very very well. Unfortunately, the job itself was very low level and they had a hard time with retention, despite the abnormally high pay. I was able to stick around 6 months before I could take it anymore, I was the last one of 5 or 6 that started on the same week.

This was my first job after being laid off at Sprint. It was an overnight monitoring position for an Energy company. I mainly kept an eye on data circuits between remote power stations, but also a few Windows and Linux servers.

I started out working 3rd shift as a NOC Analyst. Eventually, I became a Systems Administrator and when Sprint bought Dellhost from Interliant, I moved to Sprint. When Sprint then sold it's web hosting a year later, I was finally laid off.I worked mainly with Windows, but was one of the few Linux people and did a large share of the (although fairly small) Linux related work. Almost entirely related to web hosting of course, so IIS, Apache, FTP and a few other miscellaneous things.

Computer Science

Realizing the usefulness of an education and degree, I enrolled in this local community college in the hopes of finishing. With Computer.

Computer Engineering

At Auburn I started as a Computer Engineer, which was only a few classes different from Computer Science. I did well in my core classes.