He’s a good man, and thorough.
Recent Experience
Probably Software, Berlin, DE
Principal Consultant
04/2018 - Present
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Freelancing around Berlin for various clients.
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Heavy use of Terraform (AWS and GCP), Kubernetes, and various CI/CD systems.
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Kubernetes training
Fastly, San Francisco, CA
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
06/2016 - 04/2018
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Worked on a Edge Computing platform that serves ~400 billion requests/day
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SRE for various systems, including the global stats and logging pipeline
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Heavy use of Terraform in AWS and GCP
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Heavy use of configuration management systems (Chef)
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Participated in 24/7 on-call
Chef Software, Seattle, WA
Senior Software Engineer (community)
10/2013 - 03/2016
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Product owner and primary engineer for chef-cookbook Github org
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Advocate for TDD and reusability via the Custom Resources pattern
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Authored Test Kitchen plugin enabling rapid development and end-to-end PR testing with Travis and Docker
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Probably more stuff
Senior Consulting Engineer
06/2011 - 10/2013
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Early employee role. A blend of technical evangelism, competitive technology research, sales engineering, a lot of training, and a bit of actual consulting.
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Moved to Community team when we started doing contracting.
Sample Code
Sample Decks
https://speakerdeck.com/someara/hand-crafted-artisinal-chef-resources
https://speakerdeck.com/someara/docker-docker-docker-chef
https://speakerdeck.com/someara/configuration-management-camp-2015
https://speakerdeck.com/someara/cookbook-reusability
https://speakerdeck.com/someara/tdi-with-chefdk-0-dot-0-1
https://speakerdeck.com/someara/configuration-management-101-at-scale12x
Blog / Writing samples
Historical Experience
Independent Consultant, NYC
4/2010 - 06/2011
Various clients
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Deployed systems metrics collection, identified memory leaks, IO contention, and swapping
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Modeled application stacks in Chef.
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Trained staff in Chef basics and infrastructure best practices
Appnexus, NYC
Senior Systems Administrator
3/2009 - 2/2010
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Distributed team. Managed custom IaaS environment.
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Data center deployments (Centos, Puppet)
Joost, NYC
Senior Systems Administrator
10/2008 - 3/2009
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Distributed team. Bare metal environment
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Remote data center deployments and machine management (Debian, Puppet)
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Common FOSS suites - Apache, MySQL, PowerDNS, Jetty, Nagios, Cacti.
Merrill Lextranet, Boston
Senior Systems Administrator
3/2007 - 9/2008
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Post-acquisition systems integration
Lextranet, Boston
Senior Systems Administrator
6/2004 - 3/2007
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Managed infrastructures with CFEngine, ISConf and structured shell scripting
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SSO with Windows, Linux, Solaris with AD, MIT kerberos, OpenLDAP, and Perl
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp, Dayton, OH
Senior Systems Administrator
3/2001 - 7/2003
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Linux, Solaris, Windows, Irix, FreeBSD OpenBSD, combination locks
Turbolinux, San Francisco, CA
Staff trainer / Instructor
10/2000 - 2/2001
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NFS, NIS, Samba, packet filtering with ipchains.