I do Ops at BuzzFeed. I hack on Chef, I form Clouds. Currently interested in infrastructure testing and optimization frameworks and techniques, system verification, and Continuous Integration (capitalizable). I'm not interested in hearing from recruiters. I am interested in talking about technology, server administration, software development, sustainability, ecology, economics, international affairs, and social justice, as well as your cats. If that wasn't clear: if you're not someone I've met and spoken with, when you send me an unsolicited request to connect on LinkedIn, and if your profile shows that you work in HR, recruiting, staffing, talent acquisition, etc., I'm going to deny your request. You will have wasted my time, your time, your employers time, and time's time. So please stop it. I also reserve the right to take your name, agency, and duck-faced, power-poise profile photo and distribute it to my friends and colleagues for our own amusement and your ridicule. Have a nice day.

Senior Kitten Delivery Engineer @ Building a Chef configuration management code base and database from the ground up. TDD. Jenkins. Automation. Orchestration. From January 2014 to Present (2 years) Operations Engineer @ My main focus has been making the application standardized and horizontally scalable so that we could roll it out to new programs/universities at will, safely and without loss of quality. In the first three years of its existence, 2U launched three online programs. Since I’ve joined we’ve tripled our release velocity and quadrupled the number of Masters programs we offer. Puppet, CloudFormation, Boto, Zabbix, AWS, Heroku. From May 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 9 months) New York, NYLinux Server Administrator @ — Responsible for build-out and day-to-day operation of 60 servers, 12 applications, internal and external websites, various virtualization platforms, storage administration, application and platform security, backups, application and service monitoring, user administration, code deploys and change management, interactive visitor kiosks, server build automation, as well as configuration management with Chef, monitoring with Zenoss — Built out an enterprise-wide Business Intelligence platform with Pentaho - MSSQL/MySQL management, queries, reporting — Currently project managing a virtual data center consolidation project from Verizon CaaS and local ESX clusters to a single VCE VBlock data center solution. From June 2011 to June 2012 (1 year 1 month) Infrastructure Engineer @ TradingScreen is a multi-broker, multi-asset class execution platform and financial data integrator. With a network stretching from London to New York to Tokyo it is strategically and logically positioned to deliver low-latency to and from markets and interested parties. The team was built on an open architecture that allows for the integration of many types of peer network connectivity. My responsibilities included day-to-day maintenance of Solaris operating systems and associated services, monitoring of overall application/operating system/network/hardware health, backups, configuration management, datacenter operations, server builds, quality assurance, and client onboarding and connectivity as simple as firewall NATing of SSL connections over internet to full leased line connections. As an Infrastructure Engineer I was accountable for operating system performance, client service delivery, application deployment and monitoring, asset management, change management, and all facets of technology in the company, including desktop deployments, user support, and VoIP. From April 2008 to May 2010 (2 years 2 months) Operating System consultant @ Assumed responsibility for a mixed cluster of Redhat and Solaris servers delivering 24/7 high-availability dynamic content and services on campus to 10,000 students and faculty using both in-house and third party applications. Through a process of capability discovery, documenting, and remediation of a monitoring infrastructure I learned the critical points of the server and application environment and took ownership of service delivery. I advised management on ways to bring a disparate and non-standard application environment into best-practice and vendor compliance, and was able to see some of these remediation projects through to completion. From August 2006 to June 2007 (11 months) Project Manager @ Being consistently promoted to positions of increased responsibility and project complexity was both a thrill and a challenge. As a Project Coordinator I was exposed to project management methodology, scope and requirement analysis, cost management, team building, project evaluation, monitoring, reporting, budgeting, and impact assessment. As a Project Manager I was able to lead projects in a merger environment to upgrade application environments, deploy desktop virtualization solutions, and leading geographically diverse teams in remediating and consolidating finance IT infrastructure and datacenters eliminating $2 million in annual maintenance costs. I was able to employ my education and training in budgetting, cost analysis, and business process engineering. Projects included installing application environments, upgrading storage environments, Oracle database upgrades and replication installation, risk discovery and mitigation, server consolidation, disaster recovery planning, and security remediation. Aided in designing IT Inventory business processes. From May 2004 to June 2006 (2 years 2 months) Research Assistant @ Within the University of Michigan industrial and manufacturing laboratory, developed software with Java/Swing/Beans as part of a research project to build an easily-reconfigured control system for reconfigurable manufacturing system. Wrote and edited research documentation and contributed to academic papers. From May 2000 to June 2002 (2 years 2 months)

Certificate in Global Affairs, International Affairs, Emerging Markets, Political Economy, International Relations, Sustainable Dev @ New York University From 2006 to 2010 Masters, Industrial Research @ Institute of Industrial Technology and Automation From 2002 to 2003 Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science in Engineering @ University of Michigan From 1998 to 2002 Gregory Damiani is skilled in: Linux, Project Management, Solaris, MySQL, PHP, Bash, Java, XML, Apache, CSS, Tomcat, Nagios, Risk Assessment, Lisp, iOS