I have a hunger to learn, and to expand my knowledge.
This has led me from a novice in computers to Linux Admin for a large cloud provider, all the way to a DevOps engineer for a world-class Software Development team.
To say that automation and Linux are passions would be to put it mildly.
As the first DevOps engineer, I re-engineered their platform, changing plans to focus on-prem where on-prem made sense, and trimmed down their cloud usage where it made sense.
I built KVM solutions to house our many on-prem K8S cluster
I reconfigured their networking, moving away from a class A network to a class C, minimizing broadcast storms
I Introduced internal Dynamic DNS, utilizing bare metal load balancers to ensure high availability of DNS and services
I introduced Infrastructure as code to the company, utilizing Terraform and Chef to provision bare-metal systems, KVM to offer hypervisor solutions, and K8S to allow rapid deployments to multiple locations across the country.
I introduced synthetic monitoring/alerting to let us know when there was an issue with a new deployment, even within integrations
I configured our source control to alert us when a dependency was discovered to have vulnerabilities.
