I'm looking for work as a DBA / Systems Engineer. My extensive background in both
the hobby (homelab) and professional realm give me relatively unique insights
- Skills
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- MySQL Database Administration
- Performance Tuning
- Clustering (Galera/wsrep, NDB)
- Infrastructure upgrading and planning
- Capacity planning
- General schema design
- Backups and durability planning
- Linux Systems Administration
- Various flavors, incuding RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu
- Scripting with Bash, PHP, Python and Ruby
- Management of packages, including installation and configuration
- Extensive knowledge of Sensu, Consul, NewRelic and Datadog monitoring solutions
- Experience
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CVS / CareMarkRX Advisor DBA - May 2018 - Current
- MariaDB/MySQL Team Lead
- Currently on-boarding MySQL to replace MariaDB
- Capacity planning, monitoring, infrastructure improvement
ADESAMySQL DBA / SysAdmin - March 2016 to May 2018
- Management of MySQL infrastructure
- Overall infrastructure planning for high-availability
- Automation via SaltStack
CWIE, LLC Systems Engineer - Jan 2015 to March 2016
- Management and upgrading of legacy systems
- Planning and implementing upgrades of infrastructure
- Implementation of new Puppet Profiles for various applications
- Virtualizing physical servers (both legacy and more recent systems)
- Management of Dev, QA and Production environment
- Maintainance of many applications through their life-cycle
Iridium Satellite MySQL DBA - Mar 2014 to Dec 2014
- Manage 6 node MySQL Enterprise Cluster
- Upgraded existing cluster from 7.2.8 to 7.3.3
- Manage various other MySQL instances outside the cluster
- Planning replacement of MySQL Enterprise Cluster with MySQL/Galera Cluster
- For cost reduction and simplification of operational complexity
Unicorn Media, Inc MySQL DBA / Sys Admin - Jan 2012 to Jan 2014
- Managed the MySQL infrastructure from top to bottom
- Led an upgrade drive from 5.1 to 5.6
- Performance tuned the environment to greater than 10k Queries Per Second per host
- Managed backups, including moving from manual, mysqldump-based to XtraDB/Amazon Glacier
- Began process of implementing Riak as a query string caching engine
- Implemented Nginx as a caching point between our Origin servers and CDN end-point
PayPal, Inc MySQL DBA - Oct 2011 to Dec 2011
- Spent most of the time there waiting on access to be granted so I could begin actually working
- Began documenting the entirely undocumented MySQL environment
Blue Gecko, Inc MySQL DBA - Jan 2011 to Aug 2011
- Managed the MySQL Database infrastructure for various clients
GoDaddy, Inc MySQL DBA / Linux Admin - Jan 2007 to Jan 2011
- Managed the large database infrastructure, both customer-facing and internal
- Servers each hosted between 8 and 16 instances of MySQL
- Managed promotion of slaves to masters when a master would fail, planned capacity expansion
- Maintained multiple automation tools (PHP) for handling AUP/TOS violations against customers
- Hobbies
- MySQL, Linux (Desktop, Servers), World Domination, VMWare ESXi, Automation (SaltStack, Ansible)
- References
- Available on request