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Ryan Madison is listed as SRE Leader - Systems Infrastructure - Apple Services Engineering at Apple, based in San Francisco, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Ryan Madison.
Ryan Madison previously worked as Principal Services and Infrastructure SRE Manager at Apple and Systems Engineering Manager at Apple. Ryan Madison holds Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science & Psychology from Suny Brockport.
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I've lead a Site Reliability team in Apple's Internet Software & Services organization for the past five years. I have a breadth of experience in operating systems and industry standard software and hardware. I excel in automating processes, securing infrastructure, managing network storage, creating efficiency, documentation and creating tools to minimize downtime. In my tenure at Apple, I've played key roles in the initial launch of iCloud, the iCloud content backing store for photos and documents, internal support tools and iWork for iCloud. Focus areas during this time included automating server provisioning, configuration management and data store configuration. I've been responsible for purchasing millions of dollars of server infrastructure. At Apple, I've been responsible for all aspects of server infrastructure including; maintaining uniform configuration management and change management of thousands of machines, hardware maintenance and upgrades, load balancer configuration and management, application availability assurance and monitoring, performance data analysis and trending, and documentation. My current focus continues to be on Computing Infrastructure. Professional Goal: Provide leadership, strategy and guidance for site reliability teams supporting large scale internet services. Specialties: *Planning, implementing, managing and documenting large-scale linux server infrastructure. *Ensuring data availability and DR management. *Ensuring application availability in complex physical and virtual server environments. *Automating administration and developing creative solutions to technical problems. *Managing multiple virtualization platforms. *Communicating effectively with management, customers and peers.
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Cupertino, California, Us
Manage Site Reliability for orchestration service supporting Apple's large web properties, providing deployment, software distribution, monitoring, and management of >100k application servers for iTunes, iCloud, CloudKit, Maps, and Messaging services.
Cupertino, California, Us
For the Internet Services Operations team, including iCloud, iTunes, Maps, and Device Services, my team is responsible for all aspects of site reliability for Principal services, Application software orchestration and Application infrastructure logging. My responsibilities in the area of principal services include designing, creating and supporting infrastructure services that will scale to meet the needs of thousands of Linux systems. DNS, LDAP, DHCP, PXE, Puppet, our CMDB and other internal services are our primary area of responsibility. My team is currently focusing it's efforts on design and automation of the next generation of modular building block provisioning infrastructure. Application software orchestration includes responsibility for multiple internally built application software delivery and instance management platforms. These tools are written in Java, Bash and Python and use mod_cache, OpenMQ. Our team is responsible for ensuring that these tools stay performant and available for all client teams accessing them. Focus areas for this category including increasing the robustness of our locally installed software delivery platform and refining one of our current Java based orchestration platforms. Application services logging at Apple is a significant undertaking with more than twenty five clusters and thousands of machines. My team is responsible for all aspects of data flow from individual application servers to logging ingestors, aggregators to short term storage and then compression and archival to mid and longer term storage. Additionally, we ensure the data presentation and consumption is performant and accessible for our customers. Key focus areas of my team in this area are standardizing our support and configuration model across different properties, and building out the next generation of log aggregation and management which will scale with the massive growth of our infrastructure.
Cupertino, California, Us
Work on infrastructure components of new projects related to iCloud. Iterate repeatedly with cross functional teams to refine requirements and bring exciting new applications to production. Three key focus areas:1. Support rapid track development of new services and features and integrate new technology with existing production infrastructure. Manage the production deployment.2. Infrastructure Quality Assurance & Oversight. If there was ever a “standard” by which things should be done with regards to provisioning, our team’s knowledge is that collective standard.3. New technology research, testing, implementation and advocacy.
Carson City, Nevada, Us
Infrastructure Architecture. Design and maintain the full spectrum of physical and virtual application server environment for the Department of Information Technology at the State of Nevada. Responsible for all aspects of server infrastructure including; hardware maintenance and upgrades, physical network and storage connectivity, storage provisioning and management, application availability assurance and monitoring, performance data analysis and trending, data availability and backups, host security and user management, configuration and change management, and documentation and reporting.Project Management. Ensure success by directing the Integrated Financial Systems consolidation effort, a three year project to merge the departments of Personnel, Administration, Transportation and Welfare servers to a consolidated IBM P6 environment. The consolidated platform houses the State of Nevada's payroll, budget, time tracking, welfare case management, project accounting, job application system, and open government applications.Storage Management. Storage team leader. Manage all aspects of network storage including physical connectivity, fabric zoning, device mapping and masking, and performance analysis. Design, planning & implementation of disaster recovery project using EMC DMX3 storage with Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF-A).Programming and Automation. Designed and implemented custom Oracle hot and cold backup automation program with EMC BCV / Clone technology. Creation of customized TSM / EMC Symmetrix backup scripts. Created custom LAMP web portal to house server availability statistics, graphical performance utilization, system configuration information, historical change control data, backup logs, and system documentation. Wrote customized storage provisioning tools.Virtualization. Manage IBM PowerVM and VMware Virtual Infrastructure platform for multiple agencies and departments.
Managed IBM P Series, VMware virtualization platform and Enterprise storage for multiple organizations at the State of Nevada.
Unix / Linux instruction. Taught various classes including: Solaris 9 System & Network Administration, Solaris Jumpstart configuration and implementation, Veritas & Solaris Volume Manager, SAN Configuration & Troubleshooting, and LDAP. Unix / Linux consulting. Troubleshot SUN & RHEL hardware / software problems, developed custom applications, security consulting and server hardening, patch installation / configuration, SMB file sharing & printing configuration.Designed, and maintained: production web server and content. Maintained: mail, DNS, and Jumpstart environments.Managed infrastructure: EMC Symmetrix SAN, Cisco & 3Com networks, Sun UltraSparc classroom and office workstations.
Advise team of best security and infrastructure practices; establish standards and policies, automation and development.Implementation of: SUN V880 and Compaq ES40 Alpha with Compaq EMA storage and RHEL Kickstart installations.Manage: DNS, storage, CIFS shares, DHCP, patches and quotas, on SUN Solaris, Tru64 UNIX, RHEL and Windows.
Chicago, Illinois, Us
Designed and implemented a highly available, web, app, and database SUN / Solaris infrastructure for the "Planet Project".Automated and managed server installation with programs that: installed OS, packages, and patches, mirrored drives, configured NICs, updated apps, monitored CPU, memory, network, and disk I/O, and alerted if necessary. Tuned kernel, network interfaces, and applications. Used Ssh, secured programs, and implemented remote logging.Planned and implemented a corporation-wide Windows 2K, HP Openview Network Node Manager installation. Administered $10,000,000 quarterly revenue UNIX infrastructure; implemented multi-platform NIS environment.
Engineered and supported a clustered, multi SUN E10K server environment for the Xerox "Service Choice" call handling application. Documented and implemented a mirrored logical disk layout for the system's multi TB raw storage. Researched and designed systems' fault tolerant > 40 node backup and SNA gateway private network. Supported SunPeak production environment consisting of two SUN E10K's and multiple infrastructure support servers. Worked with different customers to gather and define environment requirements; then researched, conceptualized, and constructed solutions fitting those needs. Made purchasing recommendations of over $100,000 of server equipment.Maintained patches, logs, and daily backups. Troubleshot application problems and hardware failures. Crash analysis.Led team of SA's and Engineers in transitioning SUN Microsystems Chelmsford data center from SUN to EDS support.Researched and documented entire data center's server environment, work flow processes, support methodologies, management and reporting tools, and business contacts. Presented information to EDS management and peers.
Geneseo, Ny, Us
Managed first year of Residential Network project. Responsibility for: scheduling, purchasing, publications & documentation, communications, implementation and support. Additionally, co-managed help desk and thirty computing consultants.Wrote and deployed installation programs and procedures for networking / support of over 500 computer connections.Extensive web site development. Built and managed database to track computer connection status.
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Ryan Madison works for Apple.
Ryan Madison is listed as SRE Leader - Systems Infrastructure - Apple Services Engineering at Apple.
Ryan Madison is based in San Francisco, California, United States while working with Apple.
Ryan Madison has worked for Apple, State Of Nevada, State Of Nevada Doit, Simonson Technology Services, and Information Technology Experts With Sigma Marketing Group.
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Ryan Madison holds Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science & Psychology from Suny Brockport.
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