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How I got Here :) Nearly 14+ years of experience working with Linux, Cloud infrastructures, Databases, Open Source applications, Scaling sites, Debugging performance issues and putting out production fires. I'm a jack of all trades in all things technology. I pride myself on my problem solving and debugging skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly....

How I got Here :) Nearly 14+ years of experience working with Linux, Cloud infrastructures, Databases, Open Source applications, Scaling sites, Debugging performance issues and putting out production fires. I'm a jack of all trades in all things technology. I pride myself on my problem solving and debugging skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly. How I became a Linux Admin/DevOps Engineer? Watching the Matrix and reading many White Hacking books and trying to get my first copy of Linux installed on an old 386dx2 cpu, brought me into thinking I could be a computer Wizard / Admin. This curiosity lead me into working for an ISP where I started right at the beginning of the internet boom. I learned a lot about networking, DNS, Systems Administration and from there my career took off. Now, I work managing large infrastructures on the cloud. AWS, OpenStack Rack space and I manage things usings Ansible. I thrive finding causes of performance issues, automating things, and just helping my team. I love being a geek. I collect old systems like NES, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo and my new toy is a beautiful Commodore 64. Say Hello. My Personal Blog: http://penguinlinux.serveblog.net Stuff I do at work Ansible, Elastic Search + Logstash, Python application servers, Java application server debugging, Monitoring using tools like graphite, new relic, MRTG, cacti. Hadoop Clusters using Cloudera, Open Stack and AWS, real understanding and applied knowledge of DevOps principles in real production environments. I don't claim to know everything there is so much to know in the field of technology to be a master of everything, but I am quick to learn and figure things out on my own and take pride on that skill. CheersDevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer @ Returned to Jirafe to help them scale their environment for a large on-boarding of new customers and to help them scale their existing infrastructure and improved on existing application deployment workflow. Major achievements: • Expanded Kafka Cluster with added storage and increased amount of instances. • Scaled our existing Cloudera Hadoop cluster by adding more instance and adding more space to our HDFS storage. • Planned and tested a potential upgrade of Hadoop Cloudera CDH4 to CDH5 • Migrated existing MySQL servers and databases to new updated instances to allow for better performance and enhanced monitoring. • Added automated backups for a Terabyte MySQL instance with replication and Percona’s xtrabackup. • Scaled our web API and reporting API instances using Ansible to increase our capacity and support more customers. • Added Sentry to track application exceptions which has been very useful to debug performance and application errors. • Wrote Ansible scripts to provision our stack on a developer’s machine to help them get a live environment in their workstations. • Increased monitoring and visibility by introducing NewRelic, Sentry to monitor our stack in real time. • Setup Pager Duty for oncall rotation between me and the developers. • Scaled our environment to support thousands of new customers before the 2014 black Friday holiday with NO detriment to our existing users. • Wrote Ansible and Capistrano Scripts for deployments. • Researched Docker and presented proof of concepts to see if we could utilize Docker in our workflow. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure @ My Role at Lulu involved working with developers to support application deployment, infrastructure environment configurations using ansible, supporting AWS autoscaling, monitoring traffic. One of the philosophies here on the DevOps team is automate everything. We always try to improve our process and not afraid to try new ideas. Had a chance to work with some clever and amazing AWS autoscaling configurations that allowed the company to expand cluster size based on load balancer traffic and node cpu and memory utilization. Great team at Lulu Technologies used: Ansible AWS Autoscaling, AWS ELB, Route 53, Elastic search, DynamoDB etc. From April 2014 to September 2014 (6 months) New York CityDevOps / AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer @ I am Currently working at Jirafe as a DevOps cloud engineer. I manage our current infrastructure and provision our environment with Ansible responsible for the build and operation of our stack of applications running on Mongodb, Kafka, Nginx, Hadoop, Hive, MapReduce, Flume, Java, Python Django. Migrated infrastructure from AWS to Rackspace. Setup Hadoop Cluster running on Cloudera, configured master slave replication for our MySQL backend. I like monitoring our environment with New Relic, currently tracking performance of Load Balancers, MongoDB cluster and NGINX instances using New Relic. From August 2013 to April 2014 (9 months) New York CityDevOps Linux Engineer @ Provided Devops support for a large web operations infrastructure, supporting over 300+ servers located both on collocated facilities and amazon ec2. Work involved debugging issues with Apache, Resin server, Oracle instances, Java, additional support for deployments to application servers, performance tuning, root cause analysis. I took part of the migration of our legacy environment to a new fully puppetized environment running in a private cloud. Collaborated with a team of DevOps engineers with the migration of many web properties including www.wired.com, www.allure.com, www.glamour.com and many other Conde Nast properties. Additional duties included development of puppet code, debugging performance issues, provided caching software solutions using varnish, monitoring, Solr migration, etc. From July 2012 to August 2013 (1 year 2 months) New York CityLinux Systems Administrator @ Linux Administrator/ Web Infrastructure Engineer My role involves the administration and support of the web server infrastructure for all of our client websites. This includes setting up development, QA and production environments for all of our projects. Support developers with their dev environments, most development is done using Open Source stacks. Ruby on Rails, PHP MySQL, Drupal, CakePHP, some Python Django projects. In addition I also perform support for our Windows Web Server and Database application servers. From February 2009 to July 2012 (3 years 6 months) Linux System Administrator / Red Hat Support @ Linux Administrator. Support an infrastructure of over 300 servers all over the United States. Build new hardware, support and installation of customized Red Hat linux build. From October 2008 to February 2009 (5 months) Greater New York City AreaSystems Administrator @ Linux Systems Administrator, Web Server Administrator, Apache PHP MySQL and Postgres. Administration of 9 remotely hosted Linux servers that are the core of the company IT infrastructure. Core services include Qmail and Zimbra servers, Apache + MySQL or PostgreSQL + PHP for many of our websites, Sendmail for mailing lists. Responsible for monitoring server performance and optimization, also in charge of hardening and securing servers, PHP applications and other Open Source software that is used to run our infrastructure. Additional responsibilities include IT support for 4 offices located in the US and the UK. Support duties include backups of Windows XP machines, printer setups, user software configuration, laptop deployments, file and data recovery, and troubleshooting of all IT related issues. From March 2005 to September 2008 (3 years 7 months) Junior IT Systems Administrator @ Performed tech support and system administration for i-2000 a successful Tri-State ISP From July 1997 to October 2004 (7 years 4 months) Major in Psychology @ City University of New York-Queens College Marco Maldonado is skilled in: Web Engineer, Apache LAMP, Django mod_wsgi, Apache, RedHat, Linux, Red Hat Linux, LAMP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Virtualization, VMware, Open Source, System Administration, Windows Server, Cloud Computing, Servers, Bash, DNS, TCP/IP, Ubuntu, Shell Scripting, Networking, RHEL, PHP, Nagios, Subversion, Git, CentOS, Nginx, Amazon Web Services..., Puppet, Ruby, Cluster, Databases, Python