Michael Tharpe Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, In, Us

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

At HashiCorp, I've led the Cloud and Strategic Partners Solutions Engineering team to remarkable achievements, including doubling global partner adoption and spearheading innovative go-to-market strategies. My role involved driving technical sales, enhancing product expertise across Terraform, Vault, and Consul, and forging cross-functional collaboration. I initiated the AWS ISV Ambassador Program, significantly boosting community engagement and sales enablement, while managing strategic partnerships with major cloud providers and technology firms, consistently generating substantial annual sales through strategic initiatives.

Lexington, Ky, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Served as a Senior DevOps Engineer and Architect supporting core infrastructure engineering with an emphasis on Linux, Windows and general automation for massive scale enterprise. This environment consisted of 5 data centers with a global footprint and aggressive 100% availability standard. - Architect for Chef automation framework to provide complete systems deployment, configuration management, and change controls using code across Linux and Windows platforms- Designed and implemented full code and infrastructure testing framework using Inspec and Chef- Built full Chef code deployment pipeline, ensuring controlled roll outs of critical management and application configurations- Built and trained entire Automation DevOps team on the Chef, Inspec, Jenkins, and Test-Kitchen framework - Implemented comprehensive coding standards across the Chef and Ruby automation code base- Designed and implemented declarative data structure to drive all automations, as well as provide clear definition of physical and virtual infrastructure as code.- Provided design, structure, and code for Jenkins CI workflows, plugins, and custom extensions- Designed and Implemented physical server deployment platform using industry standard open source tools and custom code extensions allowing for 0 touch deployments- Designed and implemented Packer image pipeline for all operating systems, deploying images for AWS, VMware, VirtualBox ensuring standardized operating system deployments and code testing- Design and implementation of fleet management extensions using Chef and Splunk to ensure full enterprise visibility for all assets

San Francisco, California, Us

Served as a Senior Linux Engineer supporting core infrastructure engineering with an emphasis on Linux and automation for massive scale. This environment consisted of 4 data centers with a global footprint and aggressive 100% availability standard. - Enterprise Linux environment using Red Hat, SuSE, CentOS, and Ubuntu- Openstack design and implementation supporting multi-tenant API driven Environment- VMware infrastructure supporting over 15,000 production machines, spanning 4 data centers- Chef automation suite used for all implementation and configuration control of operating systems and enterprise applications across 5,000 Linux machines- Katello / Satellite 5 - 6 operating system lifecycle management across 4 data centers and 5,000 production Linux machines- Vast Enterprise applications including Java, Pentaho, Kafka, Zookeeper, MySQL, and PostgreSQL- Hadoop infrastructure utilizing data node and management resources distributed across 4 data centers.

Lexington, Ky, Us

Served as a Senior Systems Engineer specializing in virtualization technology across our business unit, which included the entire suite of VMware products as well as virtualization resilience technologies like Veeam and Zerto.- VMware design and implementations across multiple industries providing expert guidance around virtualization, capacity management, and disaster recovery- Implemented industry standard networking design using Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst for core, distribution, and access layers- Implemented Cisco ASA firewall and VPN across multiple client engagements- Provided extensive hardware implementation design and support for IBM x86 platform across multiple client engagements- EMC, Dell, and IBM storage implementations across multiple enterprise customers- Interacted with customers to provide technical solutions using industry standards as a guideline to ensure customer success- Provided pre-sales support and architecture to procure new business

Served as a Senior Systems Engineer as well as Pre-Sales Architect. Haverstick provides large enterprise, as well as government (state and local) with industry standard technology solutions. Largely, I specialized in Virtualization technologies along with the principal design for our MSP environment. - Designed, Implemented, and Maintained AIX environment supporting the client services for Family and Social Services- Implemented and maintained DB2 and MySQL high availability database services for Family and Social Services- Designed, implemented, and maintained multiple VMware enterprise implementations across multiple client engagements- Implemented and maintained web hosting infrastructure using multiple opensource technology platforms for multiple client engagements- Provided sales and pre-sales support and architecture to procure new business- Designed, Implemented, and Maintained MSP infrastructure utilizing virtualization and disaster recovery strategies to ensure 99% SLA/OLA- Enterprise Amazon AWS environment to provide fully automated and scaling infrastructure based on hosted application supporting a 99% SLA.- Provided enterprise application architecture services for multiple client engagements

Served as a IT Director for newly formed medical software startup company. Strategic Healthcare provides software solutions managing blood and transfusion technology across the United States.- Designed, implemented, and maintained hosting infrastructure providing custom software solutions for Healthcare providers- Designed, Implemented, and maintained HIPAA technology strategy- Maintained and provided Continual Service Improvement for existing and new ITIL related “Good Practices” specific to services and processes

Carmel, Indiana, Us

Served as a Senior VMware Engineer supporting global operations and security constraints based on federal regulations. Included was a full implementation of IBM blade servers with VMware 3.0 and 3.5 to support production. - Designed, implemented, and maintained VMware enterprise cluster comprised of 36 virtual hosts and over 750 production virtual machines - Designed, implemented, and maintained infrastructure management tools to support and meet compliance standards for regulatory agencies and department-specific Service Level Agreements- Maintained and provided Continual Service Improvement for existing and new ITIL related “Good Practices” specific to services and processes

Served as a Senior Systems Engineer as well as Pre-Sales Architect. Haverstick provides large enterprise, as well as government (state and local) with industry standard technology solutions. Largely, I specialized in Virtualization technologies along with the principal design for our MSP environment. - Designed, Implemented, and Maintained AIX environment supporting the client services for Family and Social Services - Designed, Implemented, and Maintained MSP infrastructure utilizing virtualization and disaster recovery strategies to ensure 99% SLA/OLA- Enterprise Amazon AWS environment to provide fully automated and scaling infrastructure based on hosted application supporting a 99% SLA.

Us

Served as a Senior Systems Engineer as well as IT director. The company was a start up when I came on board with only 21 employees, and I served as the Director designing an enterprise infrastructure to support not only internal customers, but also a hosting infrastructure growing the business to over 300 employees and over 1,500 customers. -Designed, implemented and maintained an industry standard internal and hosted network serving 300 internal users and 25,000 hosted end users- Implemented collocation strategy to provide 99.5% uptime on all resources internal and hosted to support customer SLA- Implemented and maintained VMWare diversified failover serving environment creating 3-stage redundancy for software systems- Created and enforced FTC (Gramm Leach Bliley act of 1999) regulations protecting client customer information and including reporting of compliance- Managed 1500 assigned client site servers to ensure backups, patch levels, hardware stability, and security