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Oakland, California, Us

Mostly skunk works using Java, Python and Go

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Ruby CodeJava CodeGo CodeDocumentation for CodeArchitecture for Code

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

* Wrote libraries, frameworks, and automation in python* Designed multiple components of internal infrastructure* Provided technical leadership across the SRE organization* Wrote documentation* Supported software written by the SRE infrastructure team

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

* Technical leader and point of contact across multiple service engineering groups.* Take part in formal reviews of tools and products, new and existing.* Write technical policy, documentation and run training sessions* Plan, architect and develop tools for the production environment* Interface with developers to help produce operable systems that perform at a large scale.* Work with Service Engineers to maintain the technical direction and philosophy inside of our Product Group

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

* Day to day management of a team of 6 production engineers.* Environment consisted of thousands of servers covering dozens of products* Responsible for process and policy implementation for all parts of the Sponsored Search environment.* Interfaced with multiple developer groups as well as QA to roll out. projects with ongoing revenue impact.* Retained role as senior technical resources in the group for 6 months.* Escalation point for all revenue impacting production issues.* Responsible for negative revenue impact post-mortem and remediation.* Interface with Bangalore counterpart for policy and project management.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

* Responsible for full life cycle of software including: - Architecture review with dev at prototyping phase. - Monitoring, graphing and tool building using internal mechanisms for new and existing products. - Launch and launch management for multiple products. - Ongoing support of dozens of software pieces. - Hardware build-outs and configuration management configuration.* Built tools with Perl and wrote internal libraries for use by others.* Wrote multiple monitors.* Wrote multiple automation methods to ease day to day activities.* Became defacto technical lead of the group within the first year.* On-call 12x7 pager rotation with aggressive SLA response.* Interface with Bangalore counterparts for knowledge transfer.* Retirement and migration from legacy systems to standard tool sets.* Support of thousands of Redhat Linux systems.* Some support of FreeBSD systems until EOL.* Support of internal tools for multiple aspects of administration, mostly in Perl.

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* Part of a two man team that redesigned and built a data center installation from scratch. This included setting up Kickstart, DHCP, DNS, Configuration Management, LDAP, Mon, Zabbix, YAM/mRepo and many admin tools from scratch.* Set up numerous corporate tools including RT, MediaWiki and Hybrid IRC* Wrote, in Ruby, a configuration management tool based on Pull ideals with a cascading hierarchy and simple file-based repository.* Configured from scratch multiple EMC Clariion units. Continued planning and administration of said units.* Configuration and maintenance of an EMC Celerra unit.* Configuration and maintenance of McData and Brocade SAN switches.* Configuration and management of multiple VCS nodes for hot-standby Oracle servers.* Ongoing Rack-and-Stack of Sun and Penguin Computing servers. This includes Kickstarting or Jumpstarting of the servers.* Ongoing leadership of new System Administrators while reporting to the Director of System Operations.* Writing maintenance plans and leading maintenance activities.* Writing policy and providing input on the policy written by others* Writing documentation templates* Writing design documents for system tools* Writing service documentation* Testing and Evaluation of Virtualization products including Xen and VMWare

* Manager of the systems team composed of two System Engineers and worldwide technical contact and architect for 11 offices.* Developed a migration and consolidation plan to move 30+ windows servers running on legacy hardware to 8 servers utilizing server virtualization* Rolled out remote KVM and console access to the main American offices and started coordination with European and Asian offices to do the same* Rearchitected the existing SAN to utilize modern switches and backup delivery mechanisms* Wrote policy for acceptable use of a variety of services* Implemented WSUS to ease bandwidth requirements of windows updates* Oversaw the migration from an NT Domain infrastructure to Active Directory and Exchange 2003* Migrated the internal DNS servers from BIND8 to BIND9* Oversaw the migration of core file servers to new hardware capable of meeting the rising demand* Architected a NAS solution to replace the aging SAN and developed a no-cost reuse policy of that SAN.* Migrated the externally facing web server from Saavis to Data Return

Boise, Idaho, Us

4 month contract with Google writing tools for the Sysops group in perl, python and ruby.

Supported Solaris systems in a data center environment and geographically dispersed. The data center provided data warehousing and backend application processing. The dispersed systems provided the front-end application processing in cable head-ends in a semi-redundant fashion.

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Built, Ran, and Supported a 15 system solaris development environment. Built, Ran, and Supported numerous Redhat Linux systems for supporting roles such as FTP and Dial-in access for cable set top boxes.

Supported numerous internet services and was part of a support team that cared for hundreds of Solaris systems. Services included iPlanet, fwtk, ftp, and other cutting edge internet technology from 1999.

End-user support for a local dial-up ISP.