I am a operations guy at heart and a developer by trade, combining my experience with both to deliver value to my clients and co-workers. Specializing in Open-source technology and operational best practice, I can bring stability and productivity to any development group. I have learned from the best and taught myself the rest. My flexibility and creativity know no bounds. My love for learning new technology helps me drive innovation and efficiency. I enjoy meeting new people and helping them surmount their challenges, if you have a project you would like to work on or need some help with feel free to reach out.

DevOps Engineer II @ Deployed and maintained customer production cloud infrastructure - Hosted on Rackspace and AWS platforms - Developed Automation and CI/CD for customers - Supported diverse application stacks - 99% Open-source technology From November 2012 to Present (3 years 1 month) San Antonio, Texas AreaSr. Systems Engineer @ Supported production corporate infrastructure for 300+ locations - Researched and implemented virtualization strategy - Migrated legacy servers to VMware infrastructure - Managed 2 office locations and 3 hosting facilities From May 2011 to November 2012 (1 year 7 months) Santa Barbara, California AreaSystems Engineer @ Development operations and client consultation - Provided operational support for development teams - Participated in client site visits and architecture meetings - Managed colo facility and development XenServer infrastructure From March 2008 to May 2011 (3 years 3 months) Reston, VirginiaVirtualization Administrator @ Built and operated XenSource infrastructure for development teams - Integrated with multiple development teams - Wrote technical product documentation - On call for production deployments - Participated in 24/7 pager duty From February 2008 to December 2008 (11 months) Reston, VirginiaSystems Administrator @ Provided L1 Support for Local ISP services - Web Hosting, T1 and Dial-up lines - Communicated with engineering teams and customers - Mentored new hires and maintained company wiki From October 2006 to January 2008 (1 year 4 months) Santa Barbara, California Area

Matthew Ellsworth is skilled in: Data Center, Linux, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Network Security, VMware, Oracle, SDLC, Apache, Servers, Disaster Recovery, System Administration, Firewalls, Ubuntu, High Availability, Red Hat Linux, DNS, Enterprise Architecture, Networking, SAN, Nagios, Information Technology, DevOps, IT Operations, Security, Hybrid Cloud, Rackspace Cloud, Integration, System Deployment, Hardware, MySQL, RHEL, Xen, Unix, Troubleshooting, TCP/IP, Chef, SaltStack, Ansible, CI/CD, Ruby on Rails, Python, Bash, JavaScript, Node.js, Redis, MongoDB, System Monitoring, Nginx