Kristopher Simmons
Lehi,UT
Summary
Engineer with a strong foundation in object-oriented design, full-stack development, test automation, and infrastructure engineering. Seeking opportunities to utilize problem solving and engineering skills with a focus on craftsmanship, collaboration, communication and creativity.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
Pluralsight
08.2018 - Current
- Function as a full member of multiple product experience teams, across multiple time zones
- Develop, implement and communicate healthy build and deployment patterns with an emphasis on the developer experience
- Advocate of engineering practices among team members
- Collaborate among internal and external teams on technical solutions
- Champion of devops tooling, including Infrastructure as Code, Observability, Configuration Management, and CI/CD
Site Reliability Engineer
Adobe
12.2012 - 08.2018
- Deploying HA clusters using orchestration software and maintaining/troubleshooting issues on them.
- Developed tools and monitoring checks using PERL, PHP, PYTHON, BASH
- Prepare/Deploy new servers on physical and AWS infrastructure and Azure
- Leading Projects for further growth and expansion including automation.
Systems Administrator
Bluehost
01.2006 - 12.2012
- Responsible for maintaining and up-keeping of Apache/Mysql/Exim servers
- Developed tools using PERL
- Distribute software through automated deployment
- Prepare/Deploy data migrations across platforms
- Assist in data center operations
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Utah Valley University
Orem, UTSkills
- Strong interpersonal communication skills
- Equally effective as a team member and an individual, working with remote team members overseas
- Highly adaptable and proficient in a fast paced environment
- Self-motivated with excellent problem solving and organizational skills
- Great ability to learn new business technologies and software applications as needed
- Known Programming Languages: PHP, Perl, Python
- Extensive knowledge in maintaining, updating and deploying Nagios
- Experience creating PHP / Perl / Python / BASH scripts/modules for automating tasks and troubleshooting issues
- Experience deploying and maintaining HA clusters of Kafka and Zookeeper across multiple datacenters and regions, including AWS, Azure and on site premises
- Extensive experience with the following technologies: Terraform, Salt, Kafka, Zookeeper, Icinga, Pagerduty, MYSQL, Apache
- In-depth knowledge and experience supporting AWS Services (EC2, IAM, RDS, VPC, S3, ELB), Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Zookeeper, Salt, Terraform, Azure, Teamcity, Rabbitmq, Octopus, Kibana, Postgres, MySQL, Apache, PHP, Python, Perl, Bash, Grafana, Nagios and New Relic
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Pluralsight
08.2018 - Current
Site Reliability Engineer
Adobe
12.2012 - 08.2018
Systems Administrator
Bluehost
01.2006 - 12.2012
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Utah Valley University
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