I like to build well-apportioned and well-documented systems to meet organizational needs. I'm immersed in Linux and several UNIX operating systems and applications, and can tailor services to meet most any need. I'm very experienced with networks both large and small, and am grounded in monitoring, trending, automation and security services. I'm especially interested in automation and system orchestration. And I make a damn fine cappuccino! Specialties: Server and data center buildouts, Linux applications and services, OS interoperability, Open Source CMS platforms and Wiki infrastructures, technical documentation, service monitoring and trending analysis, Bash shell automation, virtualization. SPECIAL LOVE NOTE TO RECRUITERS AND HEADHUNTERS: Hi. I love you. Because of that, I'll make it easier for both of us. A full-time position must meet the following prerequisites before I'll be interested to know more about yours: * Uses Chef. * Uses Ruby (in Development and Ops). * Has True Continuous Integration (or a commitment to get there). * HAS NO SERVER-SIDE JAVA/JVMs. * Is a small shop. * Is not actively evil. * Believes Ops is not just a loss to be contained. * Has a commute within 30 minutes of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill. NOTE: Dense urban areas may require dedicated parking. Special bonus attention for any organization that: * Has Gentoo GNU/Linux in the stack! * Will not laugh at my standing desk! * NEW: Has at least one woman on staff AS AN ENGINEER. Diversity isn't about hairstyles. Thanks. Good luck. P.S. I don't accept Connection requests unless I've actually worked with you. It's only fair to protect my network from spam and such. I do reply to relevant InMails, though! :)

Senior Technical Operations Engineer @ (Starting at end of June! Very exciting!) From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Friendly Systems Shepherd @ Systems and network administration and network consulting to various organizations, specializing in interoperability, right-sizing IT infrastructures, and focusing on customer-driven projects and seasonal goals. From May 2010 to Present (5 years 8 months) DevOops Engineer @ Social startup in SF and Palo Alto. Formally known as "Productivity and System Engineer" Learned Chef (still a noob, but getting better, love Ruby!), using Test Kitchen + Vagrant, migrated to GitHub Private Repo, in-depth 3rd-party development and productivity tool evaluations, Linux SysAdmin/DevOps process introductions, advising development team on infrastructure impacts. Transformed in-house build scripts to Travis-CI.com YAML for both mobile client (iOS) builds and backend server builds (Java w/ Ant, yeah, I know, meh). Moved production onto RightScale, which included moving to Percona MySQL Server, database replication farm, large storage arrays with GlusterFS, and all on Google Compute Engine. Oversaw deployment of New Relic OS Agent on all servers and on Java/Tomcat application agent and on Mobile iOS client. (New Relic captures EVERY crash!) Negotiated costs with vendors. LOTS of automation. Got the Palo Alto office fresh fruit delivered weekly from farmfreshtoyou.com, boyeeeee! Demonstrated the high value of standing desks + proper supporting floormats to hackers with nascent bad backs. From September 2014 to May 2015 (9 months) Lead Linux Systems Engineer @ Helped migrate the infrastructure of an acquired small cloud-centric SaaS company into a mid-sized, but established, managed services and proprietary development software company. Fought lots of fires due to inherited architecture slack. Made fundamental architecture improvements in response to growth. Rolled out new Ruby on Rails + Apache + Passenger load-balanced web servers. Took servers off of horrible RedHat "default install" storage setups in a graduated fashion; migrated all RedHat servers to CentOS in-place (vs. build and switch-over). Where I could, made marketing-speak into something resembling infrastructure reality. Made lots of documentation for my peers and myself. Trained junior admins and support personnel. Reformed Puppet; stopped NIH Syndrome in Puppet; got us on GitHub for Puppet code exchange. Improved local coffee-making options, trained staff on proper Chemex use. Noted presence of bayside squirrels and marmots. From August 2011 to August 2014 (3 years 1 month) Systems Administration Consultant @ For mostly non-profit clients across the Bay Area, provide IT and SysAdmin support. Take oxygen away from small office fires. Network re-architectures, root cause analysis, office moves, friendly and thorough assistance for cool organizations. From April 2009 to August 2011 (2 years 5 months) Systems Administrator @ I was responsible for both the internal corporate and production systems for this innovative microfinance 501(c)(3) non-profit. I built out a Windows AD domain and group policies for centralized logins, and created many IT procedures oriented for rapid growth and churn of the user base. I built out a web and database farm of Linux systems, with MySQL, Stunnel, and CentOS 5, along with Nagios, Cacti and other monitoring tools. My production architecture improvements lifted a hard cap on concurrent users, permitting the "Oprah effect" to pass without major incidents. From March 2008 to October 2008 (8 months) Systems Administrator @ Proposed, configured and implemented highly available 4.5 TB (usable) NFS/SAMBA cluster, using DRBD, Heartbeat (active/passive on two nodes), JFS, and IP failover on Gentoo Linux. IOZone-benchmarked comparisons of 3ware vs. Areca (Areca won). Diskless server farms. Implemented NTP multicast architecture. Brought AWstats web log processing down from 18-23 hours to 5-8 through advanced BASH scripting and job control. 15 minute bike ride from home. From September 2007 to March 2008 (7 months) Systems Administrator @ Gentoo GNU/Linux. Apache. PHP. Cacti. Nagios. MediaWiki for documentation. Bash scripts for administration and automation. C program customization. (See resume at http://resume.boldandbusted.com/ for full story) Small startup, bought by Yahoo in October, 2006. Lots of integration work in move to Yahoo. Turned down full-time offer with Yahoo (I like small companies, startups and non-profits), but accepted offer for extension past January. From July 2006 to April 2007 (10 months) Consultant @ Consultant assisting clients through solving technical and strategic problems. Through Taos, worked at Totality/Verizon Business and Amgen, doing UNIX and Linux Systems Administration work. From December 2005 to July 2006 (8 months) Systems Engineer @ Employed via Taos Mountain. Solved technical and procedural problems for managed services provider (formerly known as Mimicom, and Totality, and MCI). Worked with client systems and employees for companies like the Gap, Best Buy, American Airlines, Scholastic, and many others. "Unrusted" older Solaris skillset (2.6-2.8). Worked with more J2EE engines than I ever wish to again. :) From December 2005 to June 2006 (7 months) Systems Administration Consultant @ Application upgrades, anti-spam solutions (DSPAM), general lab maintenance, server buildouts From March 2005 to June 2005 (4 months) Senior Systems Administrator/Software Deployment Engineer (Consultant) @ Software package development and deployment, Perl scripts for NT user administration, Linux feasibility testing From July 2003 to June 2004 (1 year) Systems Administrator, Consultant @ For the "Center for Reproductive Health Research & Policy". Linux servers, shared calendaring/groupware, mod_survey, Windows shared folders and user/group permissions matching, backups, security education and auditing. From October 2002 to November 2003 (1 year 2 months) Senior Systems Engineer @ Data center administration, cleanup, and oversight, assisting worldwide development team, implement monitoring, trending and reporting automation From 2001 to 2002 (1 year) Director of Network Operations @ Data center administration for high traffic and high storage photo hosting web site, Mostly Linux/X86, with Oracle on Solaris/Sparc, networking, web log analysis, data center expansion planning From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) Windows NT/SMS Systems Administrator @ In a validated, controlled environment, gained 3 recognition awards, promoted after 10 months, "Exceeds Expectations" on annual review (2nd highest possible outcome) From February 1997 to October 1998 (1 year 9 months)

Dropped out, English, Nope @ University of Pittsburgh From 1988 to 1992 Fox Chapel Area High School From 1985 to 1988 Jesse Adelman is skilled in: Bash, Ruby, Linux System Administration, Apache, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Virtualization, CentOS, Linux, Puppet, Servers, Scalability, Nagios, Subversion, Git, Ruby on Rails