Alexander Pressley
Seattle,WA
Summary
Motivated DevOps Engineer with background designing, implementing and administrating critical infrastructure and operating systems effectively. Talented performer with over 3 years of experience using source control tools, along with skilled programming, to lead automation efforts in the development and operations lifecycle.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
DevOps Engineer
HOSTWINDS
01.2021 - Current
- Python development for custom in-house OpenStack and Ansible modulation.
- Exposure to numerous Python-based open-source software such as NetBox, Cloud-Init,
- CI/CD pipeline automation with GitLab Enterprise.
- Server and network infrastructure deployments via Ansible and Terraform.
- Cloud image builds using Hashicorp Packer.
- Real-time monitoring on infrastructure using Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus and Elasticsearch.
- Interaction with physical host hypervisors and virtualization technologies including QEMU, KVM, Xen, vSphere.
- Management of containerization solutions such as Docker, Podman, OpenVZ, Kubernetes.
- Linux and Windows systems administration/scripting via PowerShell and Bash.
Server Administrator
HOSTWINDS
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Responded to support requests from end users and assisted support team through basic troubleshooting tasks.
- Implemented routine testing procedures for customer-facing Cloud API and communicated closely with backend team.
- Developed internal automation scripts and tools for support team to increase resolution speeds of client issues in Python, Bash and PowerShell.
- Performed Linux and Windows systems administration to resolve a wide variety of operating system issues with webservers.
- Successfully handled disaster response and data retention for corrupted NTFS/XFS/EXT filesystems and otherwise inoperable disk images.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Software Development
Shoreline Community College
Seattle, WAHigh School Diploma -
Ballard High School
Seattle, WA06.2016
Skills
- Python
- Golang
- Linux
- Git
- Bash
- Ansible
- Openstack
- Packer
- Openstack
- Packer
Accomplishments
Successfully implemented OpenSSH protocol in native Python.
Certification
Certified Administrator - cPanel/WHM - 01/13/2020
Work Availability
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Quote
There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.
Seth Godin
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
HOSTWINDS
01.2021 - Current
Server Administrator
HOSTWINDS
01.2020 - 01.2021
Associate of Applied Science - Software Development
Shoreline Community College
High School Diploma -
Ballard High School