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London, England, Gb

● Assisting small businesses with DevOps, web dev and marketing● Continuing education researching new technologies and software development methodologies

Santa Clara, California, Us

● Focused on adding value to Intel products tailored for hyperscale customers.● Utilized Vtune/Perf performance counters to characterize mission critical workloads for hyperscale customers.● Focused on characterization and optimization for caching and web serving workloads. Reproduced customer workloads and created automation to report key performance indicators.● Utilized Ansible and Jupyter for benchmarking automation and comparative experiments, highlighting the benefits of Intel's accelerators and software features.● Backported patches from upstream Linux kernels to enable features in older kernels used by customers.● Supported the best-known configuration for Linux Kernel to optimize Intel CPU features and performance.

Santa Clara, California, Us

● Administered infrastructure for Gaudi2 GPU AI cluster● Administered high-performance Gaudi2 AI accelerator fabrics utilizing 400 Gigabit links.● Administered WekaFS high speed storage for AI training workloads.● Championed infrastructure automation with Ansible and MAAS● Created documentation and processes for managing infrastructure services

London, England, Gb

● Third-level development support for enterprise customers on Openstack and Ubuntu Linux.● Active role in bug resolution and backporting patches in Linux kernel.● Provided rapid-response for high-priority cloud outages.● Providing detailed instructions to enterprise engineering teams to debug kernel, application performance, networking, storage, and compute issues.

London, England, Gb

● Oversaw bespoke design and delivery of compute, storage, and network for enterprise Openstack clouds.● Handled customer relationships and expectations during engagements.● Reproduced and resolved software bugs reported by customers.● Provided Openstack training to Enterprise IT teams.● Americas region team lead.

London, England, Gb

● Backline support engineer for Canonical supporting Ubuntu Linux● Designing and documenting solutions for enterprise clients using Ubuntu server● Reproducing bugs reported by clients and writing detailed instructions for Canonical developers to follow when examining bugs.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

● Operations engineer in a small startup team managing Turn's real time bidded ad targeting infrastructure as traffic grew rapidly from ~50K beyond 300K queries per second● Working with Google's network engineers to debug network latency and routing issues to ensure sub 150ms round trip latency on requests made from Google ADX to Turn's RTB infrastructure● Architected large scale application metrics collection and graphing system scaling to collecting over 100K real time metrics. System still in use years after leaving the company.● Developed dashboard pages displaying application metrics and availability for use by executive management● Advised on best practices for developing operable and maintainable large scale distributed applications● Used tools such as Puppet to automate configuration● Helped manage and scale petabyte Hadoop cluster● Assisting in weekly application deployments and emergency changes● Routing traffic between datacenters using global load balancing (Akamai)● Managing load balancer configuration (Netscaler)● Monitoring application response times with Gomez, Keynote, and Pingdom● Assisting in data center build-outs and complex application migrations

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

● On-call engineer managing Yahoo's production ad serving and targeting infrastructure comprised of thousands of hosts in multiple colos.● Ensuring ad serving SLA for Yahoo Search and Yahoo Publisher Network partners.● Writing and maintaining tools for automation of large scale monitoring, config management, data distribution and application deployment.● Working with developers/QA to develop best practices for application operability and maintainability in production.

Santa Clara, California, Us

● Responsible for developing portable virtual machines for use on servers and developer desktops● Deployed homogeneous development and build environment using portable virtual machine infrastructure across multiple developer office locations.● Responsible for managing lab servers and virtual machines from user support to monitoring, security and update management.● Developed custom user authentication module for Linux in C.● Wrote Python code fixing bugs in build automation tools.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

● Installed/Repaired servers in Google's datacenter.● Tested and troubleshot new server hardware components and designs.● Installed switches, routers, and other networking gear.● Configured and troubleshot Linux related issues on Google's cluster servers● Automated monitoring of tasks and processes with Bash, Python, MySQL

Corvallis, Or, Us

● Managed Linux systems hosting Open Source projects including Debian, Gentoo and Drupal.● Primary admin of Drupal.org database (MySQL) and web (Apache) servers, handling architecture and scaling optimizations. Also configured and managed Drupal.org, CVS, NFS, and mail servers.● Kept systems up to date and monitored healthiness updating software as needed.● Interacted with Drupal core developers around the world.