Engineer Software

Samuel Flory Silbory **** Lissa Drive Eureka, CA *5503 https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsilbory

Phone: 408-***-**** Email: ***.*****@*****.*** Remote/Telecommute/Virtual Roles or Local to Eureka, CA <20% Travel 1 P a g e

DEV OPS ENGINEER LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR AWS CLOUD ENGINEER PERFORMANCE SUMMARY

Multi-disciplined DevOps Engineer/AWS Cloud Engineer/Linux Administrator applying technology solutions to enhance corporate functions & production systems; developing/implementing AWS cloud solutions and best practices to effectively manage cloud environments. Experienced in implementing DevOps practices to automate processes through team communication & collaboration across technology teams (i.e. developers & technology/operations teams), seamlessly diagnosing root cause, troubleshooting problems, identifying resolutions, and assessing in real time to improve organizational performance in software development & IT operations; delivering success in operational efficiency to fast paced, emerging technology, and evolving/growing environments.

Lead in cloud computing (private & public clouds), utilizing open source development model/communities & open source tools to drive/support automation of infrastructure as code/infrastructure services in enterprise/hybrid cloud environments, while maintaining highly available servers.

Skilled in orchestrating DevOps tools together to increase time available (as a resource) and improve technical & business operations; promoting continuous software delivery, faster resolution/lessening of issues/problems, faster delivery of features, and more stable operating environments; adding value to utilizing DevOps tools.

Knowledgeable in managing projects dependent on both internal 3rd party and community development; using strategic understanding of tools, processes, system configuration management, and technologies (i.e. CI/CD tools (Jenkins), custom scripting, infrastructure automation tools) to execute effective project management.

Extensive experience in Linux development & support; performing Linux system administration, distribution maintenance, performance optimization, and troubleshooting; forecasting capacity & making recommendations to address capacity challenges in server systems, virtualization environments, and cloud-hosted Linux services; all while ensuring compliance to security standards.

Effective in Linux monitoring and tuning; providing ongoing technical support/maintenance of production systems, development systems, and troubleshooting of hardware & software products as well as configured services on open platforms.

Customer-facing Projects: technical support, pre-sales support, customer support management, & on-site customer deployments.

Specialties: Linux Development, Linux Distribution, Linux System Administration, Release Engineering, AWS. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Python and Shell (Bash Scripting); Familiarity: Perl, and Ruby Linux Distributions: Red Hat (Centos/RHEL/FC), Debian, Ubuntu; Familiarity: SUSE and Amazon Linux Virtualization & Container Technologies: EC2, KVM, VMware, Docker; LXC Familiarity: Kubernetes, Hadoop Cloud Platforms: Amazon AWS (2 certifications); Familiar: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as Code (IAC)/Configuration Management (CM Tools): Ansible, Terraform Continuous Integration Tools/Build Systems: Jenkins, Bugzilla, Git; Familiarity: Buildbot, SVN, CVS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

COFENSE (aka: Phishme) Leesburg, VA 6/2017 -

11/2018

DevOps Engineer

Design/support infrastructure automation & deployment projects focusing on DevOps & Cloud projects; providing solutions with DevOps practices & technical implementation aligned with program objectives (i.e. building scalability, reliability, and security into the development lifecycle). Work on all aspects of DevOps (continuous integration, source control, deployments, etc.), identifying gaps in processes/infrastructure and implementing solutions to restore functionality & improve efficiency. Provide Linux Systems administration/support (i.e. installation, deployment automation, monitoring, troubleshooting issues, etc.) and release engineering

Skilled in building engineering automation for AWS Cloud infrastructure (EC2, RDS, VPC, Terraform; Ansible platform); focusing on creating, maintaining, and enhancing design standards and patterns for system components & infrastructure.

Developing microservices containers/containerization with Docker Swarm & deployment into production environments.

Build/maintain continuous delivery (CD) pipelines using Jenkins to ease automation/orchestration; increasing team productivity. HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Santa Clara, CA 6/2011 -

5/2017

Sr. Appliance and Platform Engineer

Sole Platform Engineer for a Hyper Scale-Out Storage/Big Data Analytics Platform/Appliance; used to take in large quantities of mixed data across a distributed, clustered architecture.

Determine storage hardware selection/testing/performance tuning (i.e. raid controller, NICs/network interface cards, switches); while also handling the selection of Linux OS, internals, kernel & file systems tuning, network protocols, and core services.

Handle software packaging/installation as well as lead the porting effort from CentOS to Debian. (Continued on Page 2) Samuel Flory Silbory 3849 Lissa Drive Eureka, CA 95503 https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsilbory Phone: 408-***-**** Email: ***.*****@*****.*** Remote/Telecommute/Virtual Roles or Local to Eureka, CA >20% Travel 2 P a g e

HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Santa Clara, CA 6/2011 -

5/2017

Sr. Appliance and Platform Engineer (Continued from Page 1)

Improved the build/test infrastructure via network installation, updated automation testing best practices (i.e. address sanitizer, unit tests), virtualization (i.e. VMware, containers), and maintaining Buildbot to assist QA porting jobs to Jenkins.

Developed virtualization environments to address need for automated network control system; responding to system changes. KVM hypervisor performance tuning/testing; Open vSwitch (OVS) (VLAN, VXLAN, tunneling support); Hadoop tuning.

Supported development by prepping new libraries (selected, compiled, packaged), debugging (Valgrind, reproduction of difficult bugs, etc.), conducting developer workstation admin duties, & maintained compile and test VM/container templates. CODE GREEN NETWORKS (aka: Digital Guardian) Sunnyvale, CA 11/2005 - 5/2011

Technical Support Manager, 11/2010 - 5/2011

Primary point of contact for high value customers, managing escalations to Engineering. Trained CGN & OEM customers’ support staff.

25-50% Platform/Release Engineer experience.

Platform Engineer and Release Engineer, 11/2005 - 4/2011 Built all customer releases and managed upgrade development for all releases. Produced & maintained a CGN-branded CD/DVD and network installation for an appliance (RHEL/Centos based). Packaged proprietary software into rpms. Hardware support.

Integrated kernel patches and backported kernels; in addition to integrating and evaluating required 3rd party software (i.e. OSS software and proprietary software; responsible for license compliance).

Utilized expertise to evaluate/select new hardware and integrated required kernel & installer support.

Developed various projects for appliance (diagnostic uploads, hardware watchdog daemon, IPMI support).

Administered Ubuntu-based developer desktops and development environment. RACKABLE SYSTEMS (aka: SGI) Fremont, CA 1/2001 - 8/2005

Lead RD Engineer

Advised customers & salespeople to create customized hardware configurations; customer support management. Evaluated new hardware

& technology. Provided 3rd-tier technical support.

Developed/maintained the test/load infrastructure and maintained Rackable's test kernel.

Assisted customers in building a stable Linux platform on Rackable hardware. VA LINUX SYSTEMS (aka: Geeknet) Fremont, CA 12/1997 - 9/2001

Technical Support, 12/1997 - 12/1998

Initially served as sole technical support contact at VA; served as pre-sales and post-sales technical support. Handled the manufacturing support, product qualification, and Linux system administration. Company growth led to increased management responsibilities.

Provided/diagnosed customer issues via phone & email support.

Repaired systems which had been RMAed.

Trained new support personnel and developed VA's support policies. Release Engineer/Distribution Maintainer, 12/1998 - 9/2001 Evaluated release schedules. Project management of new product introductions. Assisted QA department in developing test plans, consulting for Red Hat and Debian release teams, and releasing software to the factory. Lead new software releases for the factory and insured software support of new hardware products. Lead development/maintenance of factory load servers & installation software.

Member of the Virgil development team which developed VA's integrated factory testing/installation and Build To Order Software

(BTOS - customized installation of software packages.)

Evaluated & integrated VA and community software into VA's distribution release.

Managed Software Engineering's QA of new hardware & OS releases; developed and/or maintained several packages in VA's OS release.

Primary point of contact for VA Technical support to Software Engineering. EDUCATION

Linux Professional Institute Certifications: LPIC-1: System Administrator (equiv. of Linux+, or RHCSA) Amazon Cloud Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA) AWS Networking. In Progress. UC Santa Cruz 2009-2010 Certifications: Network Engineering and Systems Security Linux Programming and Administration San Jose State University & West Valley College 1993-1997 Dual Major, Computer Science and Biology. Degree Incomplete.

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