Jan 2024 - Present

TechOps Engineer,
Scientific games

Orchestrating new Kubernetes clusters as a spearhead into corporate foray into containerization, and maintaining clusters as a part of a multi state lottery system. Both on prem and in the cloud.

Keywords: Ubuntu, EKS, AWS, EKS: Anywhere, Kubernetes, Docker, ContainerD, gitops, argoCD, harbor, helm, github workflows.

Aug 2021 - Dec 2023

Systems Network Administrator - Assistant Team Manager - Cloud Engineer,
i3 Verticals

(Administrator) Help maintain a large LAN, support aging scripts, streamline existing procedures, help design new infrastructure, and prepare migration into new platforms.

(Engineer and team lead) Helping create a multi datacenter, fully redundant environment for hosting inhouse applications and Deploying Open Source software whenever possible. Creating large scale automation scripts to save time and effort. Also, helping to organize a small team of highly trained engineers in the effort of deploying a large scale cloud project.

(Cloud Engineer) Migrate aging system to a modern cloud using SaaS, such as Ansible and SaltStack. Design, and rapidly implement robust, redundant, secure and scalable infrastructure.

Keywords: Bash, Linux, Ubuntu, PHP, Apache, Docker, RedHat, Ansible, Salt-stack, IaaC, hyperconverged networking, hypervisors, XCP-NG, proxmox, Windows Server, Active directory, Gluster, CephFS. 

May 2018 - Aug 2021

Freelance Engineer and College Student

Full time student, and part time Freelance Engineer. Designed rugged industrial machines used on plant floors. Also designed, repaired, and maintained Apple Computers for several customers.

Aug 2016 - May 2018

Student Intern,
Unicoi county CT&M

Helped repair, replace, maintain and manage Apple iPads for school infrastructure using industry standard methods. Built desktop computers highly suited for the education environment. Helped streamline the network infrastructure in the school system. Deployed wifi access points for both the schools system, and for the public in the general vicinity of the school system.