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Christian Paredes
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Name
Christian Paredes
Sort of okay with being awesome with UNIX
 
Bio
I'm a systems administrator. I love what I do. I work mostly with websites and HPCs.

I'm trying to get a lot better at programming - this probably means learning things like Haskell and Erlang, and a bit of C sprinkled on top.

I'm all about automating and handling large deployments. This means using things like Puppet/Chef to automate deployments and configuration changes, RabbitMQ/AMQP for handling message queueing between several services, and tools such as logstash in order to transform a bunch of unstructured events into information.
 
Location
Seattle, WA
 
Experience
 
 
Company
Amazon
 
Role
Systems Engineer
 
From
February 2012 - Present
 
Description
Will be working on AWS Cloudfront.
 
Location
Seattle, WA
Company
LOPSA
Role
Member
From
January 2010 - Present
Description
Former chair of the LOPSA Mentorship Program (left due to other obligations I had to fulfill.) Join up! https://lopsa.org/mentor
Company
Shopply
Role
Systems Engineer
From
November 2011 - February 2012
Description
Running ops and QA, while writing dev features for our STEALTH SUPER SEKRET PROJEKT
Location
Seattle, WA
Company
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Role
Systems Administrator
From
April 2011 - December 2011
Description
Maintained SBRI Puppet repository. Implemented mcollective for fleet-wide control of all of our UNIX machines, collectd and graphite for system-level metrics and presentation, logstash for structuring arbitrary log events, Jenkins for continuous integration of our Puppet code, and elasticsearch for long-term archival of log events. Directly supports bioinformatics group. Open sourced Opsview libraries for Puppet on behalf of SBRI. Contributed code to logstash.
Location
Seattle, WA
Company
Blue Box Group
Role
Senior System Administrator
From
September 2010 - April 2011
Description
I assisted the support team as much as I could with weird issues, as well as writing up code and setting up machines for our infrastructure.

I also maintained our open sourced Chef repository (http://github.com/blueboxgroup/bbg_cookbooks). Wrote a few cookbooks in that repository, and lots more for customers (that you'll never, ever see!) Largest project was automating a large site with several DB's, web servers, load balancers, and caching servers with 'service orchestration'.
Location
Seattle, WA
Company
USENIX Association
Role
Member
From
January 2010 - January 2011
Company
3TIER
Role
Systems Administrator
From
July 2010 - September 2010
Description
- Built backup infrastructure with Bacula and custom shell scripts for easy maintenance.
- Provided help desk support for 60+ staff members in our Seattle and Panama offices.
- Maintained ~300 compute ROCKS compute nodes by replacing hardware and executing cluster-wide commands with ROCKS tools.
Location
Seattle, WA
Company
Cafe Allegro
Role
Systems and Network Consultant
From
September 2009 - August 2010
Description
- Redesigned the wireless infrastructure from scratch.
- Deployed OpenBSD server for routing and firewall services for wireless clients.
- Organised a volunteer team of sysadmins, including me, in order to keep the system up and running.
Company
Jambool, Inc.
Role
Jr. Systems Administrator (con
From
June 2010 - July 2010
Description
- Wrote Puppet recipes for Wordpress and MediaWiki as a part of an overall effort to switch all services over to Puppet.
- Maintained EC2 instances and physical servers with Puppet.
- Migrated Jambool's blog, internal wiki, and OpenVPN concentrators to new hosts.
- Performed light administrative work on MySQL databases, such as creating users, taking SQL backups, and migrating databases to new hosts.
Location
Seattle, WA
Company
Accretive Technology Group
Role
Systems Administrator
From
March 2010 - June 2010
Description
- Wrote shell and Perl scripts for system maintenance, automation, and configuration management of 500+ Debian and FreeBSD machines.
- Administered services under the guidance of the other systems administrators, such as apache 1.x/2.x, MySQL, and BIND.
- Setup replication across several MySQL servers.
- Created Debian packages for the local repository.
Location
Seattle, WA
Company
Bishop Blanchet High School
Role
Systems Administrator
From
August 2009 - February 2010
Description
- Designed and implemented new help desk policy, including how technicians take ownership of tickets and how to respond, resolve, and close.
- Increased user confidence in the department through weekly technology department updates and prompt response of tickets.
- Increased systems awareness by implementing a centralized logging service and a network monitoring service on FreeBSD 7.2 with syslog-ng, Nagios, and MRTG.
- Administered backend services of a PowerSchool installation, which is comprised of Tomcat 5.x and an Oracle database.
- Implemented an A
Company
UW Heinecke Lab
Role
Student Assistant
From
December 2008 - August 2009
Description
- Deployed critical Windows and Linux servers for the lab's infrastructure, such as a WSUS patch management server and OpenVAS for security scanning.
- Designed and programmed a new website for the laboratory in PHP and XHTML/CSS.
- Built a ten node compute cluster for scientific high performance computing.
- Provide in-house help desk support for laboratory members.
Company
UW Pathology
Role
Student Audio/Visual Specialis
From
August 2008 - August 2008
Description
- Setup and coordinated the setup of audio/visual equipment and computers for the Vasculata 2008 Course.
- Provide technical and computer support before, during and after the course.
- Fully responsible for producing DVD recordings of all lectures for distribution to seminar attendees and lecturers.
Company
UW Technology
Role
Student Help Desk Technician
From
August 2007 - September 2007
Description
- Responsible for providing technical assistance to UW faculty, staff and students via e-mail and phone.
- Responsible for providing service for UW proprietary network services, such as web publishing, UWNetID login, PINE e-mail, SecurID issues and other network/computer-related issues.
- Coordinate with supervisors regarding network issues/problems.
- Attend to phone and e-mail inquiries in a timely manner.
Company
UW Gastroenterology
Role
IT Technician
From
June 2004 - September 2004
Description
- Responsible for the setup of computer hardware and the installation of various computer software.
- Responsible for the deployment of Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Windows XP to over 100 computers in the division.
- Troubleshoot computer problems when they occur.
 
Education
 
 
University
University of Washington
 
From
2007 - 2009
University
Seattle University
From
2004 - 2006
 
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