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I have been working professionally with Unix based operating systems since the age of 18 and for fun since 13. I strive to be a one stop shop for any company when it comes to implementation, monitoring, security, growth and maintenance of their development ecosystem.Senior DevOps Engineer @ First official DevOps Engineer to be hired at MakerBot....

I have been working professionally with Unix based operating systems since the age of 18 and for fun since 13. I strive to be a one stop shop for any company when it comes to implementation, monitoring, security, growth and maintenance of their development ecosystem.Senior DevOps Engineer @ First official DevOps Engineer to be hired at MakerBot. I am honored to be apart of this company. - Immersed work with AWS technologies. - Re-organizing and extending the infrastructure. - Moving the infrastructure to be managed via SaltStack and Docker. - Creating custom apps and management facilities with Python -- Python experience with: Flask, Boto, Apache-LibCloud, Salt - The new infrastructure implements the use of Docker and DockerHub. - Vagrant and writing custom Vagrant files to provision and utilize system hardware. From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) Senior DevOps Engineer @ - Head of security and Production systems. - Specialized in Big-Data-Analytics. - Continuous integration specialist. -- Deployed and maintained Chef OpenSource Server. -- Made use of Chef Test Kitchen, Berkshelf, and Knife EC2. -- Created and maintained custom cookbooks and made use of Chef SuperMarket. - Maintained environments in AWS, LogicWorks DataCenter and in-house server. -- Experience dealing directly with vendors. - AWS experience -- Mostly focused on: S3, Glacier, EC2, VPC, EMR, Route53, and ELB. - Created and maintained custom scripts to deploy and bootstrap VMs on Linux KVM/Qemu. - HAProxy and STunnel experience. -- Quick action to protect against HeartBleed. -- Templated configuration to work with our configuration management. - Monitoring with Graphite in-house and then Hosted Graphite, Giraffe, Ganglia, Nagios/Icinga, Sensu, OpsCode, Pingdom, Site24x7, NewRelic, LogStash. - Experience with RabbitMQ and Redis. Usage with Logstash and Sensu. - Administration of Cassandra Cluster. - Administration of MySQL / PerconaDB Master Slave setup on large scale databases (100GB+ databases). - Administration of in-house Hadoop (Cloudera) and then a move to AWS EMR. - Custom scripting for automation, backups and routine jobs. -- Advanced bash scripting. -- Intermediate Python scripting. -- Ruby with an emphasis on Chef CookBooks and Recipes. - Administration and maintenance of Pentaho, Jira, Confluence, OpenLDAP and many other in-house services. From April 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 9 months) Linux Systems Administrator II @ At Wireless Generation I supported over 1000+ servers in multiple platforms majority being RHEL compliant e.g Centos. - Maintained multiple application platforms with an emphasis for cloud scaling. - Managed site configs using GIT adhering to specific release branching strategy - Used bcfg2 for configuration management on scale of around 500 servers per environment. -- Used Tegenshi templating langue to consolidate configurations along with python. - Worked with Hudson/Jenkins continuous integration servers to write/perform sanity checks as well as automatic rpm builds - Reviewed code with Gerrit code review system for pier review before commits deploy. - Provisioning systems with Cobbler (kickstart server) - Managed repositries with Cobbler and custom release upgrade scripts - Also managed repositries with pulp and pulpcdn in a release branch systems dev -> staging -> production - Monitored all systems and services with Nagios & Ganglia - Installed and configured Puppet + Hiera/Gerrit/Jenkins development environment in AWS cloud - Installed and setup Eucalyptus public/private cloud which shares the same API as AWS cloud. - Advanced BASH Shell scripting. From March 2012 to April 2013 (1 year 2 months) Head Linux Administrator @ Worked with 1000+ servers with a world wide reach, including support for teams in Beijing. - 24x7 on call - Worked with Xen and VMWare. - Created Custom script to port over VMs from XEN to VMWare. - Managed configurations and environment integrity with CFEngine 2.0 - Code version control with SVN - Experience managing and setting up Postgres9 asynchronous replication. - Maintained internal websites, creation of internal wiki (MediaWiki) - Advanced debugging for product applications running on Solaris and RHEL. - Gained familiarity with RTicket. - Monitored Systems with Nagios and Custom monitor scripts created in BASH. From April 2011 to March 2012 (1 year) FreeBSD/Linux Systems Administrator @ Maintained servers for over 5,000+ customers. Manage BSD, Linux and Windows servers, with more focus emphasis on the Unix based OSes. - Expert Apache 1.3 and 2.x configuration and debugging experience - Experience with Nginx and Lighttpd - Using NFS and debugging any issues. - Setup per client custom RTMP services such as Wowza and Red5 - FFMpeg and ImageMackic experience with emphasis on stream encoding. - Experience provisioning servers with VMWare - Debugging/Cleaning websites which have had malicious code injected. - MySQL Administration, setting up Master to Slave/Master replication. Database debugging. From 2008 to 2011 (3 years) Cofounder @ Started up a webhosting company with a friend. Rented out space in a datacenter and put up some servers. Our Main platforms at the time were Centos with Vsphere running over it and Debian. From 2004 to 2008 (4 years) Jason Meredith is skilled in: Apache, Linux, FreeBSD, CentOS, MySQL, Nagios, Bash, Unix, DNS, Servers, Solaris, VMware, Git, Data Center, Cloud Computing