Andrew vonderLuft

SysAdmin / SRE / DevOps

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wonder@hey.com

360.600.9962

Brush Prairie, WA

United States

Profile

Creative thinker with broad experience developing and deploying dependable I.T. solutions

Roles

SysAdmin / SRE

Automation of everything for resilience and repeatability

Software Developer

Effective applications to delight users and maintainers

I.T. Manager

Strategic decision-making and collaborative oversight

Skills

Design & Develop
Ruby ecosystem, Rails
RSpec, Minitest
Git, Subversion
Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab
MySQL, Postgres, SQLite
Redis, JSON, YAML, XML

Admin & Config
Linux CLI, bash, zsh
Terraform, Ansible
Chef, Puppet
Apache, Nginx, Caddyserver
Basecamp, Jira, Redmine
kubectl, eksctl

Automate & Integrate
Docker, Kubernetes
Jenkins, Travis
Github Actions
Buildkite, Capistrano
AWS console, CLI & APIs
API integrations

Monitor & Discover
ELK Stack, Kafka, Zookeeper
Cerebro, Graphite, Grafana
Prometheus, Lens, Rancher
CloudWatch, CloudTrail
Nagios, Sensu, Monit
Splunk, NewRelic

History

Excella Inc.

Senior Consultant, DevOps Automation

October 2022 - present

Configure, deploy and monitor CI/CD pipelines
Implement process automation with ruby and bash
Automate certificate renewal and installation on EKS
Create and maintain Docker images and Kubernetes deployments
Configure and scale AWS resources with Terraform and Ansible
Provide regular updates on AWS resource using ruby SDKs, Docker and Jenkins
Diagnose and remediate CVEs, performance issues, and system outages

37signals, LLC

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Feb 2022 - Aug 2022

Configure, deploy, manage and monitor entire SaaS infrastructure
Automate heretofore manual processes with ruby programs
Write extensive documentation of procedures for optimal knowledge sharing
Triage, analyze and remediate performance degradations and system outages

iovation Inc. / TransUnion

Senior Service Reliability Engineer

Jan 2018 - Feb 2022

Configure, deploy and manage 1000+ nodes with Puppet
Design and build out ODFE ElasticSearch clusters
Craft automated utility programs with ruby and bash
Automate processes using APIs (e.g. AWS, Bitbucket, Slack, Rundeck)
Develop program test suites, primarily with Rspec
Automate maintenance processes with cron, Docker and Kubernetes
Integrate solutions into automated build pipelines with Jenkins
Automate monitoring of processes and nodes with Puppet and Sensu
Perform root cause analysis of systems performance degradations
Discover performance anomalies using Kibana, Grafana, et al.
Configure and administer Git SCM (Bitbucket), CI and deploy tools
Automate processes for SOC2 and GDPR audit compliance
Document all automation procedures for optimal knowledge sharing
On-call rotation for mitigation of production issues

Renew Financial

DevOps Engineer III

Jan 2015 - Nov 2017

Automate, integrate and manage software deployment lifecycle
Configure and manage continuous integration tools and build systems
Provide system resources to Software Development and QA teams
Maintain internal systems to maximize automation and repeatability
Monitor and optimize systems and application performance
Ensure secure operation and configuration of all technical infrastructure

Con-way

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2002 - Jan 2015

Design, configure and deploy new corportate web infrastructure
Configure web application components including Apache, Nginx, Passenger, Bundler, MySQL, DNS
Develop and extend internal and external websites using Ruby, Rails, Redmine and RadiantCMS
Configure and manage Source Control Management using Subversion and Git
Mentor I.T. staff in use of development tools and technologies
Implement XML web services for Rate Requests, Bills of Lading, et al.

Con-way

Manager of Information Architecture

Dec 1999 - Apr 2002

Oversee staff of over 20 to manage network infrastructure for over 400 locations
Prepare and present detailed proposal, including ROI, for change to thin client architecture
Research, select and deploy thin client network solution for all company locations
Facilitate communication and collaboration between technical staff and executives

Con-way

Senior Systems Analyst

Feb 1996 - Dec 1999

Research, implement and maintain logistics operations software for new business line
Prepare and present design and implementation plans to VP levels
Provision and configure operations servers and network
Write and execute complete data conversion to new operations software
Administer Windows NT and Unix servers
Teach front-end staff software usage for operations

AVLUX Enterprises, LLC

Principal

Jul 2000 - present

Oversee operations for homegrown hosting company
Systems and software setup and configuration
Administer servers, monitoring and backup

Pacific Data Group

Systems Analyst (Contractor)

Mar 1995 - Feb 1996

Lead Analyst for Order Entry Systems - code, test and QA
Job flow dependency analysis and tuning
On-call support

Projects

Occams CMS

2023 - present

Owner and primary committer of an inherited a Rails-based CMS

AWS Utils

2020 - present

Ruby rake tasks to query AWS resources

RadiantCMS

2008 - 2019

Core committer for a Rails-based, no-fluff, open source CMS

Education

Reed College, Portland, OR U.S.A

1977 - 1981

B.A. Classics

Western Seminary, Portland, OR U.S.A

1995 - 1996

Exegetical Theology

Languages

Ruby

Delighted devotee

Bash

Proficient

Go

Acquainted

PHP

Avoid if possible

Javascript

Conversant

Java, C#

Conversant

C, C++

Acquainted

Python

Acquainted

Perl

Acquainted

Links

Andrew vonderLuft — wonder@hey.com — 360.600.9962