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Experience

• Senior Linux Systems Administrator

  Feb 2022 – Present @ O’Reilly Auto Parts (Remote)

  • Managed petabyte-scale storage systems and computational infrastructure, ensuring seamless operations
  • Enhanced system reliability and efficiency through maintenance of distributed systems using Ansible and Terraform
  • Supported Ubuntu/RHEL servers with VMware, Containers, and IaC, optimizing server performance
  • Introduced code reviews, pull requests, code formatting, linting, and testing to users

• IT Specialist

  Mar 2018 – Feb 2022 @ Labcorp (Remote)

  • Automated routine tasks with Python, Powershell, and Ansible, reducing downtime and increasing efficiency
  • Instituted new Active Directory GPO structure to facilitate automation
  • Managed networks using Cisco ISE, Infoblox IPAM, Velocloud Orchestrator, and Meraki dashboard

Projects

• Internal Apps

  Highly-available APIs for 1000+ users

  2022 – Present

  • Architected and deployed a highly available internal store API and corresponding frontend
  • Developed ChatOps interfaces and automation to reduce user friction
  • Deployed load balancing and versioned multi-container deployments for application resiliency

• Homelab

  vSphere, Active Directory, Linux, Docker, Azure

  May 2018 – Present

  • Engineered systems around hardware constraints in an 8 node cluster
  • Implemented Docker containerization with source-controlled configuration deployed with GitOps
  • Built complex networks with VLANs for service segmentation, multi-user VPN, and IDS/IPS services

• Order Management System

  Web app for pathologists’ test ordering

  Jan 2022 – Feb 2022

  • Deployed a multi-environment Flask web app with Docker, LDAP, OAuth authentication, and tiered permissions
  • Engineered scalable deployment with NGINX, Gunicorn, and Docker
  • Developing a reporting dashboard for national teams

Open Source

• Litestar

  Maintainer - Asynchronous Python Framework for building APIs and Web Apps

  2023 – Present

  • Contribute to the codebase for Litestar, ensuring its performance and capabilities
  • Managed complex CI pipelines, including testing, linting, and deployment
  • Collaborate on project roadmap and features, and maintain related projects like Polyfactory
  • Provide assistance and guidance within the project’s community
  • Steered Litestar organization projects, roadmap, and vision
  • Maintained priorities and relationships with user and business sponsors
  • Managed the project’s community, including contributors, users, and sponsors

• Maintainer

  Powerful utilities for Python - 2023 - Present @ Jolt Organization

  • Split off popular internals from the Litestar organization projects to provide them en masse.
  • Maintained projects including a SQLAlchemy companion library, Python runtime type introspection utility library, and more.

Technical Skills

• Languages: Python, Bash, Java, Powershell
• Frameworks: Litestar, Django, Flask, FastAPI, Jinja2, OAuth, PostgreSQL, TailwindCSS, Bootstrap, SQLAlchemy
• Tools: Git, Docker, LXD/LXC, NGINX, Ansible, Azure, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, OpenTelemetry
• Operating Systems: Windows Server (2012-2022), Ubuntu Server, Red Hat Server (RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Linux)
• Software: VMWare vSphere, ESXi, Proxmox, Hyper-V, GPO, ServiceNow, SCCM, Citrix
• Currently Learning: Kubernetes, Rancher (Harvester, k3s), Jenkins, Terraform, Rust

Education

• Bachelor of Computer Science, Auburn University, 2026 (expected)
• Associate of Science in Computer Science & Programming, Wallace State Community College, 2023 (expected)