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Jesse

Senior Systems Engineer at Sela US

I’m a passionate technologist who loves tinkering and Linux. I’ve been active in both systems and software engineering for over a decade, while moving into DevOps as a merger of two of my passions. My formal background in both psychology and sociology has helped me both mentor others and better understand the needs of both clients and team member. In my free time I enjoy weightlifting, photography, and collecting vinyl.

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Experience

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Senior Systems Engineer
Sela US

May 2023 - Present, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Cloud Consulting / DevOps Engineering

Responsibilities:
  • Re-Architecting EC2 deployments to optimize costs, while supporting both HA and standalone architecture
  • Designing Github Actions CICD Pipelines for large enterprise Fargate Java containers
Senior Systems Engineer
Foresight Technologies

May 2022 - May 2023, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Cloud Consulting / DevOps Engineering

Responsibilities:
  • Developing Windows and Linux system automation
  • Backend Python application development
  • Implementing and maintaining Puppet DSC for SQL Clustering
  • Designing Terraform IaC and participating in tem code review for larger modules
  • Participating in project planning and development deployment design process
2
3
Lead Engineer
Webjogger

Jan 2016 - May 2022, Lake Katrine, New York

Managed Service Provider / Systems Automation

Responsibilities:
  • Designing and maintaining hybrid cloud data centers
  • Developing CI/CD Pipelines
  • Designing and implementing custom multi-site monitoring
  • Engineering disaster recovery solutions
  • Network architecture and related task planning
  • Mentoring and managing field engineers
  • Assisting with on-call rotation for critical outages
  • External and internal security auditing
Field Service Systems Engineer
Constructure Technologies

Nov 2014 - Jan 2016, Melville, New York

Managed Service Provider

Responsibilities:
  • Managed customer break-fix and hardware deployment
  • Malware research and response
  • Mentoring L1 technicians
  • Maintaining deployed IP PBX systems
4
5
Mobile Desktop Network Technician
Connected Technology

July 2014 - Nov 2014, East Setauket, New York

Managed Service Provider

Responsibilities:
  • Help desk support
  • IP Phone system deployments
  • K-12 Hardware refreshes
  • Windows Server migrations
Technology Consultant
Schoepfer Consulting

March 2005 - July 2014, Stony Brook, New York

Systems Consulting

Responsibilities:
  • Off-site backup deployments
  • Logical and physical Network architecture reviews
  • Windows and Linux server implementation and maintenance
  • Website development
  • SMB PoS Support
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Education
Dowling University
2015
Masters of Business Administration - Information Systems Management
Extracurricular Activities
  • Delta Mu Delta - International Honor Society in Business
SUNY Stony Brook
2010
Bachelors of Arts - Sociology & Psychology
Suffolk County Community College
2006
Associates of Arts - Liberal Arts

Volunteer Work

1
DevOps Manager
Fedihosting Foundation

July 2023 - Present, Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands

Project Management / Architecture Planning

Responsibilities:
  • HR planning, interviewing and hiring of team members
  • Managing DevOps team of 8 remote contributors
  • Running weekly standup meetings and agile project review
  • Designing scalable infrastructure using multi-cloud providers
  • Conducting code reviews and mentoring junior developers
  • Kanban project planning and design collaboration
  • Growing presence in FOSS community and giving back to other projects

Skills

Python
Python

Build API Backends, Systems Scripting, Network Monitoring, AWS Automation. Leveraging modern tooling, testing and package management.
Terrafrom
Terrafrom

Custom module integrations, AWS and related EC2 deployments with supporting services.
AWS
AWS

Systems migration and IaC based deployments. Deployments using ASM, SSM, FSx, S3, and EC2 resources.
PowerShell
PowerShell

Active Directory, Windows DNS, SQL server automation and recovery, disturbed system mutex’s, WSFC Automation.
Puppet
Puppet

Server maintenance, cluster and script deployment, software patching, External Node Classifiers, custom exec scripting.
Ansible
Ansible

Linux & Docker deployment playbooks and custom roles relating to multi-cloud hosting
GoLang
GoLang

Multi-threaded CLI based tooling. Publishing complied binaries for FOSS projects.
GitHub
GitHub

CI/CD deployments using GH actions, project management and team collaboration. Setting up self-hosted Docker runners apt-get install python3-venv.
Docker
Docker

Packaging and deploying in house systems automation solutions. Application Image lifecycle using container registries.
Gitlab
Gitlab

Deployment and maintenance of self hosted instances. Designing containerized CI/CD deployments using cross platform runners.
JIRA
JIRA

Managing large cross regional multi discipline projects for both corporate and non-profit entities
HTML & CSS
HTML & CSS

Creating blog and portfolio sites that scale on desktop, tablets and mobile, while maintaining readability and accessibility
Hugo
Hugo

Designing static personal sites with dynamic client side content and providing rich RSS subscription
Azure
Azure

SMB Cloud Services, DNS, Backup. VM lift and shift migrations from on-premises.
Digital Ocean
Digital Ocean

Debian VPSs, DNS Hosting and App-as-a-service deployments.
Debian
Debian

Server maintenance and deployment, security hardening via DUO 2FA and BDR using Veeam.
Prometheus
Prometheus

Instance deployment and related monitoring of custom in-house application metrics. Related Grafana monitoring.
HA Proxy
HA Proxy

Deploying highly available micro services routing using ephemeral builds and allowing deep logging with latency analysis

Projects

FediGatus
FediGatus
Developer

Dynamic Website monitoring system to parse Federated social media services

hobby
Porch Light (Color Controller)
Porch Light (Color Controller)
Developer

Changes LED bulb to colors based off dynamic photo download

hobby
Microsoft SQL HA PaaS
Microsoft SQL HA PaaS
Senior Systems Engineer

Puppet / Powershell SQL AO deployment, leveraging Terraform for deploy at scale

professional
Hubitat Control
Hubitat Control
Developer

Hubitat Interface Library using Python & Requests, running in Docker.

hobby
Bank Account Systems Sync
Bank Account Systems Sync
Developer

Data transfer automation, leveraging Python, SFTP, PGP and Hashi Vault

professional
AutoBot
AutoBot
Lead Engineer

Autotask / PRTG API integration, written in Python docker microservices

professional
FortiBackup
FortiBackup
Developer

Firewall Configuration backup manager using Git and Python

professional
VDI Restructuring
VDI Restructuring
Senior Architect

Multi data center business continuity, using Veeam, OSPF and Citrix

professional
UptimeParser
UptimeParser
Developer

SNMP Parser designed to be integrated with PRTG Network Monitor, written in Go

professional
LCD Network Monitor
LCD Network Monitor
Developer

ICMP based network stats, controlling a Display-O-Tron HAT

hobby
ISP Datacenter Migration
ISP Datacenter Migration
Senior Architect

Cross datacenter live migration of DNS, Zimbra (Email), and Hosted VPS services

professional
AutoAudit
AutoAudit
Developer

NMap reporting backend for data-center clients

professional
Speed Test Logger
Speed Test Logger
Developer

Internet speed monitor using Speedtest.net and Python

hobby
Temp Monitor
Temp Monitor
Developer

Client server micro-python environment logging using 8266 micro controllers

hobby
Huego-cli
Huego-cli
Developer

CLI Application to control Philips Hue home lighting written in Go

hobby
ForgeLand
ForgeLand
Developer

Mincraft project using REST JSON API to post/view custom hosted message board

hobby
AdoptMe
AdoptMe
Developer

Masters capstone project using Flask App Builder

academic
Personal Infrastructure
Personal Infrastructure
Engineer

Managed DNS, S3, VMs and related services via Github, Terraform

hobby