I enjoy building and working on smart teams making amazing products that are creative, well designed with solid engineering behind the company. I am a self motivated, driven engineer striving to make the highest quality systems and software. I use innovative thinking, experience and a passion for details to solve new problems with technology. I enjoy working on new innovative tools and special infrastructure projects because it gives me the chance to build something new and think of how to solve problems in new creative ways, save people time, money, frustration, improve systems and make efficient well working systems. Skills include: UNIX, Linux, teaching, distributed computing, web development, web applications, design, programming, command line techniques, system architecture, data visualization, automation techniques, many programming languages, security, scalable systems, desktop and mobile apps design ideas, media and creative techniques. I communicate effectively across levels of management and staff and enjoy teaching and sharing knowledge and organizing technology classes. I am an expert writing modular reusable code with simplicity and debugging code as well as creating technical documentation. I am an expert at setting up new systems and updating/ migrating systems, system tuning and optimizing servers for resources and objectives. I am resourceful, versatile and cool under pressure. Specialties: Large Scale Production Engineering, Full Stack Engineer, Automation, Infrastructure Tools, Research and Development, Linux, Apple, Bash, PHP, SQL, DNS, SSH, BSD, Ruby, Perl, C++, Objective-C, Swift, Firewalls, databases, system tuning, system monitoring, database tuning, System Admin, System Security, System Programming, Debugging complex problems, API's, Integration, Technical Documentation, Technology Consultant, Tech Lead, System Architect, Software Release Planning and Project Management.

DevOps Engineer @ DevOps, Engineering, Infrastructure Tools, Bash Expert, Python Pro, Nagios Pro, Teaching, Tech Documentation and run books, Linux Expert, Monitoring and Graphing, Docker, Nginx, Helping build ideas, Video Production, Ansible, New Relic, AWS, Advanced Command Line Tools, Operations Expert, EC2, ELB, CloudFront, S3, Architecture Tools, Data Visualization, Security Tools, Problem Solving, Helping with issues, Technical research and prioritization of issues, Deployments, Organizing Information and Resources, Deployment Scripts and Process, Lifestyle Ambassador, Infrastructure Cost Analysis, Jenkins, Perl and Ruby. Helping developers with roadblocks, Identify, research and help fix bugs and improve the quality of the customer facing website and many other critical systems, on call support, GoPro studio educator, camera help, 360 video explorer, engineering talent finder, bug finder. From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) Software, Design, Systems @ Your Idea Space is a creative hobby education project for building websites and teaching technology ideas for audio, web, visual, graphics and science for musicians, artists, educators and creative professionals. Created a social community music site called Memory Echo for like minded musicians to share original music, thoughts, ideas and comments with other musicians and collaborate. Also created a web and Python open source math flash card application for memorizing and education. Your Idea Space is a creative outlet for people with knowledge and ideas to share and help others learn more about programming, open source, mathematics, design, music, art, technology, meet like minded individuals and help people get involved in the music and art community in SF Bay Area. Tech: PHP, MySQL, Bash, Python, Linux, Apache, Javascript, Nagios, D3.js, WebGL, Perl, Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, Rackspace, Redis, HTML, CSS, AJAX, Git, Ansible, Software Developer, System Administrator, educator. Project Websites: http://www.yourideaspace.com http://m3cho.com http://mathcard.us http://www.memoryecho.com http://www.electronicsleep.com From January 2000 to Present (16 years) DevOps Engineer @ Created infrastructure tools, auto backup automation and testing, database structure docs, server processes and standards for the company and created a dynamic monitoring and graphing tools for alerting and trend analysis. Also created a business intelligence program which analyzed daily, weekly and monthly feedback activity to find spikes, trends, business opportunities and also for scaling the infrastructure and for visibility in company activity. Also administrating and growing the current infrastructure and managing servers, deployments, security and scaling the website. Tech: Linux, Development, Operations, Auto Scale, Expert AWS Command Line Tools, Automation, Bash, Python, PHP, Javascript, jQuery, D3, Puppet, Ansible, Redis, Cloud Computing, enabling and educating programmers, AWS, EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, Linode, Rackspace, Ubuntu Linux, APIs, DevOps tools, technical documentation, auto deployments, release procedures, Nagios and graphing, NoSQL, SQL, Wordpress, Drupal, high availability, fault tolerant systems, big data concepts, graphing critical business data, full stack developer, debugging and deploying the software stack, sharing knowledge, building business logic documentation, tech presentations to explain complex topics, teaching, run books and tech documentation. From July 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 6 months) System Administrator @ Worked two positions at Apple. One was working on a team developing a global scale inventory system for all the retail stores as a Server Engineer then moved into the IT group working on a number of global, high visible, and critical communications systems internally and externally within Apple as a System Administrator. Worked on many different monitoring systems and improved network and system monitoring, data center monitoring and upgraded and migrated Nagios, used and improved virtual machine tools, created custom health checks, deployed new releases, fixed issues, lots of troubleshooting and worked a highly visible on call rotation. Tech: UNIX/Linux scripting, Bash, Perl, Python, virtual machine technology, system administration, system documentation, software deployment, software releases, change management, MTAs, Inventory Management, Git, CouchDB, noSQL, SQL, build process, system monitoring, operations, automation, Nagios, Zabbix, AppleScript, OSX Server, debugging and monitoring of applications, PXEboot, Kickstart, Homebrew, Erlang, Objective-C. From May 2012 to June 2013 (1 year 2 months) Service Engineer @ Worked as a Service Engineer managing a Hadoop advertising system related to Yahoo! Search. Tech: Perl, Bash, Cluster Management, Hadoop, Search Clusters, Crawlers, Indexers, Big Data, Commodity Linux Server Troubleshooting, Operation at Scale, Red Hat Linux, Custom Nagios Plugins, Open Source. Managed thousands of search and advertising servers and wrote documentation and run books for issues and tasks. From October 2011 to May 2012 (8 months) Software Engineer, Linux System Admin @ Worked as a full stack developer and system admin for an online appointment setting software. Tech: PHP, MySQL, Bash, Apache, Linux, Red Hat Linux, LAMP, SVN, Debian, BSD, Cloud Servers, Rack Servers, Rackspace Cloud, Amazon EC2, HTML, AJAX, CSS, Perl, JSON, XML, on call, last level tech support, Senior Software Developer, System Administrator. The company has grown exponentially for over 5 years, was hired very early on as the programmer, sysadmin, debugging, QA and even some support work. Now my original job is run by at least 3 different departments of course in a different capacity than before. From October 2007 to September 2011 (4 years) System Analyst, Mainframe Operator, Automation @ Worked on the back office mainframe system for a credit union. Tech: Mainframe Operator, Administrator, Software Developer, The Linux guy, POSIX compliant HP mainframe. ran ACH deposits, tape backups, spool printing and learned the inner components of the credit union software to troubleshoot tickets, was on pager rotation for the mainframe, learned MPE Shell, mainframe languages, financial software and mainframe technology. I troubleshot cash dispense machines and generally keep things running by fixing issues that arise. I programmed automation and monitoring on ACH and external systems to the mainframe. From January 2005 to October 2007 (2 years 10 months) Programmer @ I maintained and updated the companies Visual Basic code base that is used to manage cell phone companies sales and inventory. I upgraded different program components for merchant, accounting and sales tracking. I also debugged many of the existing reports and application issues. I identified database issues and coordinated with the database engineer and lead programmer to add new features and modifications to existing reports. From June 2004 to January 2005 (8 months) Technical Analyst @ I worked at Discover Card for six years. I designed and implemented reports for the collections center using Access, Excel, and Crystal Reports and distributed them across the intranet for the Phoenix call center. I also completed a training manual for my position. I used Lotus Notes, Mainframe/CICS and troubleshot credit card machines in my daily job. I started on the phone and worked in the marketing, merchant, collections, and sales centers. From November 1997 to June 2004 (6 years 8 months)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, Software Development, 3.08 @ DeVry University Phoenix From 2001 to 2004 Chris Robertson is skilled in: Red Hat Linux, PHP, Perl, MySQL, Software Development, Apache, Network Security, Start-ups, System Administration, Operating Systems, Linux, Unix, Unix Shell Scripting, Linux System Administration, Oracle Enterprise Linux