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Chris Whip Résumé email: [email protected] Other contact details and references provided separately or upon request Summary Systems reliability engineering for a better night's sleep. DevOps, systems administration and development. Based in Seattle. Skills sampler Cloud implementations OpenStack deployments plan, install, configure, manage, troubleshoot. Core OpenStack services, KVM, RabbitMQ, Percona XtraDB Systems management and automation Configuration management automation (Ansible, Salt, Chef), operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris), monitoring (Icinga, Nagios), security, software compilation and management Network admin Ethernet, TCP/IP and routing, DNS, DHCP, security (firewalls, SSH, SSL/TLS, PKI and digital certificates) Services admin Storage (NFS, SMB, Ceph) and backup (tape, disk, cloud, automation), access control(Kerberos/LDAP, Radius), databases (MySQL, Percona XtraDB, Cassandra, Riak), email services, web servers (Apache) Programming Python, Perl, Bourne shell, C, C++, Lisp Web content creation HTML, CSS, XML, standards compliance and accessibility, image editing and compression Education Bachelor of Computer Science, 1999, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Employment history Site reliability engineer, HewlettPackard/Hewlett Packard Enterprise http://www.hpe.com/ (20132016) Worked with team to deliver OpenStackbased cloud environment deployment automation. We automated OpenStack management using Ansible and Jenkins to the point where users could trigger cloud environment builds for Openstack service development environments

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Chr i s  Wh ip   ­  Résuméemail: [email protected] contact details and references provided separately or upon request

SummarySystems reliability engineering for a better night's sleep. DevOps, systems administration anddevelopment. Based in Seattle.

Sk i l l s   samp le rCloud implementationsOpenStack deployments ­ plan, install, configure, manage, troubleshoot. Core OpenStackservices, KVM, RabbitMQ, Percona XtraDBSystems management and automationConfiguration management automation (Ansible, Salt, Chef), operating systems (Linux,Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris), monitoring (Icinga, Nagios), security, software compilationand managementNetwork adminEthernet, TCP/IP and routing, DNS, DHCP, security (firewalls, SSH, SSL/TLS, PKI anddigital certificates)Services adminStorage (NFS, SMB, Ceph) and backup (tape, disk, cloud, automation), accesscontrol(Kerberos/LDAP, Radius), databases (MySQL, Percona XtraDB, Cassandra, Riak),email services, web servers (Apache)ProgrammingPython, Perl, Bourne shell, C, C++, LispWeb content creationHTML, CSS, XML, standards compliance and accessibility, image editing andcompression

Educa t i onBachelor of Computer Science, 1999, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Emp loymen t   h i s to ry

S i t e   r e l i ab i l i t y   eng inee r ,  Hew le t t ­Packa rd /Hew le t t   Packa rdEn te rp r i se   ­  ht tp : / /www.hpe .com/   ( 2 013 ­ 2016 )

Worked with team to deliver OpenStack­based cloud environment deploymentautomation. We automated OpenStack management using Ansible and Jenkins to thepoint where users could trigger cloud environment builds for Openstack servicedevelopment environments

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Consulted with HPE Helion OpenStack distribution development team during the 1.1 and2.0 development process, identifying bugs, suggesting future development directions, andgenerally working to make the product more reliable and easier to operate.Worked on custom multi­zone multi­region OpenStack implementations tuned fordatabase­as­a­service using Salt for automation. Our team created productionenvironments of up to 60 heavy­duty hosts. I also created security review processes andbuilt a fifteen host multi­zone staging environment, replicating an unstructureddevelopment effort in a documented way.Helped pioneer Kanban development model using Jira

So f twa re  des igne r ,  Hew le t t ­Packa rd   ­ht tp : / /www.hp .com/   ( 2 011 ­ 2013 )

Backend engineering for AWS and OpenStack­backed high­availability native cloudapplications for desktop and mobile clients.Distributed NoSQL database manageability research (Cassandra, Riak, Zookeeper, andwhy your distributed database holds its configuration data in another distributed database)Collaborated with Global Cyber­Security on security reviews and audits.Administered team tools, including Jira and MediaWikiWorked with an Agile development model using Jira

So f twa re   eng inee r ,  App l i ed  Ma thema t i cs ,  Un i ve rs i t y   o fWash ing ton   ­  ht tp : / /www.amath .wash ington .edu /   ( 2 005­   2011 )

IT manager for the Department of Applied Mathematics, a Unix­centric computingenvironment focused on mathematical researchLinux, Mac OS X, Windows and HP Tru64 system administration and security. Xen, KVM,and VirtualBox virtualizationServer room, rack, and hardware management (including specification and procurement)Software procurement and license managementService planning and management (secure authenticated Web services, serverbackup/sync, client backup/sync, Linux compute workstation network, compute servers)Service migrations reducing department costs (NIS to Kerberos/LDAP to UW campusKerberos, postfix to UW campus email,)Programming (systems tools, automation, user computation tools)Supervision of assistants for systems rollouts and Web content creation