Russell Van Tassell Email & Phone Number

I'm a jack-of-all-trades type, primarily specialized in DevOps automation and Site Reliability Engineering. I have extensive experience with a wide variety of computing systems in heterogeneous environments while providing "five nines" of reliability.Specialties: * Systems and Tools Engineering and Automation * Large Scale Deployment and Configuration Management (Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, etc) * UN*X System Administration in Heterogeneous System/Network Environments * Extensive experience with a large variety of scripting platforms, including Python, Perl, PHP, and others * Extensive in-depth experience with a wide variety of with many UN*X systems, tools and utilities * System and Network SecuritySome recent projects I have been involved with in a professional capacity: * DevOps "from first checkin," including automated unit/functional testing, and orchestrated roll-outs * Large scale monitoring infrastructure and custom monitoring solutions (Nagios/Icinga and others) * Metrics compilation and analysis for worldwide applications (Ganglia, Graphite, Grafana, etc) * Global VMWare host/cluster management via "pure DevOps" * SRE "Single Pane of Glass" dashboards, ensuring visibility of the important aspects of the businessMy apologies, but I generally do not accept LinkedIn invitations from those whom I have not worked with, directly. Please understand that, like most other senior techs, I get a large number of "blind calls" and connection requests (and I do not check LinkedIn very often). Recruiters can best address me by direct message, and letting me know who they are and what I can do for them or their clients. You may also reach me at my gmail address (russellvt), if you wish to interact directly.

Listed skills include Perl, Solaris, Shell Scripting, System Administration, and 45 others.