Wallace Winfrey

Linux/Unix Administration

10+ years of experience with Linux/Unix Administration and automation with Ansible, Puppet, Python, Perl, Bash, Ruby, Git, Perforce

DevOps Administration

Extensive experience standing up build systems from scratch using Jenkins, TeamCity & Docker; extensive experience administrating & maintaining Atlassian stack

Cloud Technology

Self-motivated investment in learning Kubernetes in Google Cloud, Azure Cloud, AWS, Docker

Seasoned Linux veteran with 10+ years of operational experience fueled by an unrelenting curiosity

Championed and implemented full stack build automation and delivery systems

Implemented agile processes which were so effective they were later adopted by the entire division

Homegrown hacker with history of demonstrating innovation in news and video delivery, modernized and optimized processing environments

Oracle

Senior DevOps Administrator • March, 2012 — August, 2019

• Responsible for design, implementation and scaling of code management/build/deployment systems that grew with team
• Maximized engineering velocity using Jenkins, TeamCity, Artifactory, Fortify, etc.
• Migrated multiple engineering teams to use build/deploy systems
• Tenacious advocate for process automation and optimization
• Spearheaded agile implementation and tooling adoption using the Atlassian ecosystem including Jira, BitBucket, Confluence, Crowd, FishEye, etc
• Assumed ownership, care and feeding of complex legacy systems
• Enforced rigorous engineering by evangelizing monitoring and task tracking systems

Presilient, LLC

Senior Development Engineer • September, 2010 — January, 2012

• Designed configuration management solution employing fault-tolerant Nagios & Puppet
• Customized, extended, upgraded & strengthened OTRS helpdesk system
• Taught Unix systems how to speak ActiveDirectory and introduced SSO to managed services company

Wall Street On Demand

Linux/Windows Web Administrator • April, 2009 — September, 2010

• Designed & deployed banner ad management system based on php-fpm and nginx server pools; delivered solution at ¼ the cost of the system it replaced
• Brought much-needed UNIX expertise to a Windows shop, working with multiple teams to help them lower costs & required effort, while developing expertise in IIS, MS Server, AD & SQL Server
• Took ownership of internal support tools, increased their reliability & responsiveness in service to goal of UNIX & OSS evangelization

RedHat Training

RHCSA & RHCE (120-016-746) • 2012

Certified in RHEL 6

University of Missouri - Columbia

Bachelor of Journalism • 1994

Spearheaded, launched & edited first iteration of the Digital Missourian, a 40k circulation newspaper in Columbia, Missouri, in 1994. Also in 1994, for my senior project, wrote program to deliver live, streaming video of NBC-affiliate nightly newscasts to 4-campus University of Missouri network (predating RealVideo by 3 years).