SRE with focus on software-defined networking

Passively Looking

DevOps / SRE San Antonio, Texas, United States

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Summary

Tech skills
Platforms:
- UNIX/Linux, 20 years
- Openstack, 6 years
- XenServer, 7 years

DevOps:
- Config mgmt (ansible, salt), 4 years
- Linux Containers (LXC), 6 years
- Docker, 4 years
- REST APIs, 6 years
- CDN (Akamai, Cloudfront) 4 years
- Python, 4 years
- Vagrant, 4 years
- Git/JIRA, 4 years

SRE:
- MySQL, 8 years
- Apache/nginx, 7 years
- Load Balancing/Application Delivery Controllers, 4 years
- CDN (Akamai, Cloudfront) 4 years

Security/Networking:
- TCP/IP Networking, 8 years
- SSL/TLS, 8 years
- Software-defined networking/VPN, 4 years

Soft skills

Documentation: Top contributor to Rackspace docs, both public and private documentation
(see Contact ). Won award for more contributions to internal wiki. Administrator for Rackspace
forum site (community.rackspace.com) before it was shuttered in 2018.

Mentoring/Leadership: I send more emails to my teams internal distribution list than
anyone, Im asked to participate in more conference calls, I interview and help onboard new
members of my team.

Cross-team Collaboration "Silo Busting": Created blog to raise profile of my division within Rackspace;
frequently asked to participate in cross-division committees (security, OS standardization, etc)

Expectations

Interesting problems to solve through collaboration and creativity. My current position is a hybrid between customer-facing support, product management, development, and operations. I enjoy the variety and pressure.