Abe

Born in poverty. Raised in wealth. A 21st century man. I have fallen in love with the modern information world, and have developed the talent to navigate it.

I pride myself in the ability to extract the smallest amount of available information from vast amount of noise.

WHO AM I

I currently serve as a Senior System Administrator for an international data center company hosting tens of thousands of servers. I am exceptionally talented at data parsing and diagnostics, with strong emphasis on Linux Servers. I have both backend and frontend web experience.

Education

University of South Florida Tampa, FL

Bachelors of Science Information Technology Graduated December 2022

Experience

Hivelocity Tampa, FL

Senior System Administrator September 2021 - Ongoing

• Built search engine for company that allows them to keep track of all online tools that we depend on from zero
• Developed extensive expertise in HTTP, DNS and email
• Built monitoring system for companies backup infrastructure integrating SOAP API, with a custom build database, backend web server and frontend web design
• Handled and participated in several data center outage mitigation and recovery, including through natural disaster (Hurricane Milton 2024, 3 day outage)
• Manually reverse PHP malware from clients servers
• Build VLAN, assign IPs, diagnose networking infrastructure
• Manage and configure hardware and software firewalls
• Performed several hundred server migrations, and thousands of site migrations. Built Bash scripts for this purpose
• Oversee international data center and direct remote hands to fix problems
• Diagnose thousands of hardware server issues
• Develop expertise in log parsing, with very strong awk and grep(regex) skills
• Primary point of escalation for any database related issue because I have extensive experience in both designing and administrating databases
• Manage Data Center level virtualization software with Apache CloudStack(QEMU) and VMWare VSphere hosting several hundred VPS each
• Manage hypervisor servers ESXi, Proxmox and HyperV
• Worked with HIPAA|Health data(HIPAA certified)
• Managed and configure thousands of backup solutions for servers

MIT Computers Tampa, FL

Technical Support May 2016 - October 2017

• Contract IT services and computer diagnostic and repair
• Phone repair
• Maintained Windows, OSX and Linux computers and offer contract work for small businesses

iSecure Cape Coral, FL

Technical Support August 2015 - May 2016

• Deployed office computers, networks and servers
• Repaired and maintained computers and phones
• Deployed power and ethernet cables

Marine Corps MCRD San Diego, CA

Corporal May 2010 - August 2015

• 1341 Engineer Equipment Mechanic
• Team Leader

SKILLS

Linux

• Senior Linux administrator with deep understanding of the Unix system architecture(emphasis on RHEL and Ubuntu)
• Advance data parsing with extensive knowledge of grep, sed, awk, find and the other less(including less) common data parsing tools
• Complete knowledge of Basic Regex, Extended Regex and Perl Regex
• Advance Shell scripting with programming and algorithms background. I have spent the last two years living inside Linux terminal from work and hobby
• Vim and Neovim user

Database

• Database administration managing thousands of LAMP servers for a bare metal hosting datacenter
• Designed Database Schema from zero
• Adherence to Normal Forms
• Proficient with SQL including DDL, DML, TCL, DCL and most importantly DQL
• Advance ETL skills derived from my natural talent for data wrangling
• Interacting with REST, SOAP and building scrappers including Selenium
• Real world experience with security and backup management

Programming

• Proficient in Java(10k+ lines)
• Proficient in Python(10k+ lines)
• Familiar PHP(3k lines)
• Intermediate C#(2k+ lines)
• Strong Algorithms and Data Structure knowledge based

Web

• Proficient in HTML, CSS and JavaScript(10k+ lines)
• Proficient Web Scraper from Python and Curl
• Extensive knowledge of HTTP/SSL/DNS
• Managing and configuring Apache and Nginx
• REST and SOAP API

Misc

• Intermediate knowledge of both Cisco IOS and JunOS. I did basic administration for switches and routers including bonding ports, setting up VLANs and monitoring system health
• Over 5 years of hardware knowledge from phones to servers from my time in computer repair and datacenter administration
• Data center administration including monitoring CRACs, setting up IPMI and Spyder and datacenter security training
• AWS knowledge in CloudFormation, EC2 and S3
• Version Control, specifically Git
• IOT knowledge from school to my own hobbies with Arduino and RaspberryPis