Jed Smith's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Senior SRE and Linux infrastructure architect with a focus on lean, self-service systems that engineer for failure and enable engineers with light care and feeding. Forward-thinking architectural style, embracing modern practices and technologies. Peninsula and startup veteran. 90% Gilfoyle, 10% Hendricks, 200% Bachman.Site Reliability Engineer @ Started on Maps Operations, supporting various location-based products and internal services. In that role, built a few internal systems for operational problems and assisted with deployment and maintenance of many public and internal aspects of Apple Maps. Later, helped build the next-generation, low-friction software lifecycle for Internet Services at Apple, working closely with the teams behind iTunes, iCloud, and many other key online properties; offered extensive operational and infrastructure experience to a dedicated, constantly-evolving backend engineering effort. Involved in key scaling efforts for iOS user experience. From October 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 4 months) Cupertino, CASite Reliability Engineer @ Passed the legendary Google interview to operate production datacenter systems. Implemented, committed, and deployed a modification to a distributed monitoring system for network performance, working around planned cluster downtime. Mutually separated after one quarter for administrative reasons, not performance-related or negative in any way. From June 2013 to August 2013 (3 months) Mountain View, CASite Reliability Engineer @ Administered a sizable Amazon and physical footprint with an emphasis on MongoDB operations and maintenance. Performed several whole-fleet upgrades of MongoDB as well as whole-fleet migrations, first to a private cloud environment and then to physical hardware. Developed novel operational techniques for rapid MongoDB disaster recovery. Developed a system to automate MongoDB repair operations, a significant operational cost in a large MongoDB deployment. On-call administrator responsible for foursquare.com. Coordinated response to several significant uptime events, including coordination with Amazon and 10gen (for MongoDB outages). From January 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 5 months) San Francisco, CaliforniaSystems Developer @ Architected, designed, and engineered the backend for the first version of NodeBalancer, a highly-available load balancing as a service product built upon commodity open-source components. Designed and developed the initial version of Linode Manager for iPhone. Developed a syslog and RRD collection and monitoring system for the Linode fleet, including rapid DDoS detection. Implemented a complete, revisioned Python reStructuredText CMS for the Linode Library utilizing Werkzeug, SQLAlchemy, and Jinja2. Overhauled a DNS and configuration generation system which handles tens of thousands of DNS records hourly. Contributed extensively to internal tool development and ancillary network device automation. Performed on-call administration of a very large fleet at several facilities around the world. Instrumental in developing several internal policies for legal compliance. From June 2009 to December 2011 (2 years 7 months) Galloway, New Jersey Jed Smith is skilled in: Python, Linux, System Administration, Open Source, Distributed Systems, System Architecture, Site Reliability, Containerization, CoreOS, Docker, Apache, DNS, SQL, Bash, C, Networking, Go, Nginx, MongoDB, Scalability, Java, JavaScript, Software Development, Unix, Cloud Computing