Brendan Byers

Site Reliability Engineer, System Administrator

https://b13rg.github.io/

IcebergByers@protonmail.com

(541) 979-6673

Experience

    IBM
    Technology Business Management
    Nov.2023-Current

Site Reliability Engineer L7

  • Continued management of multi-account, multi-continent production network for internal and external services
  • Manage underlying Kubernetes infrastructure for internal teams and customers
    Apptio
    Technology Business Management
    Aug. 2019-Oct. 2023

Site Reliability Engineer II

  • Administrator of global datacenter infrastructure, including hardware and software for virtualization and storage clusters
  • Creation and administration of cloud-based Global Transit Network, providing core routing for all service environments
  • Performed migration of core services from datacenter to cloud, including customer authentication, DNS, and core networking
    Kannact Inc.
    Diabetes Tracking and Management Solutions
    Aug. 2018-June 2019

IT, Systems Administration and Consulting

  • Ensured secure storage and management of patient health information following HIPAA guidelines.
  • Design, implement and manage network design and security for local and remote offices.
    Open Dental
    Open-Source Dental Practice Management Software
    Apr. 2017-Apr. 2019

Software Engineering

  • Programmed UI and logic for dental software using C# and MySQL.
  • Designed and implemented user authentication code utilizing modern NIST security practices
  • Created automation that generated internal and customer-facing database documentation and version release notes
    Education
    Computer Science; Emphasis on Security
    Graduated 2019

Oregon State University

  • Capstone Project: Worked with Hewlett Packard and room-scale printer mainframe to prove the viability of virtualizing existing hardware and software using containers and CI/CD. Additional extensive coursework in History.

Skills

Full Stack Engineering

Proven ability to architect, build, and manage full service stacks, from core application code to virtualization, automated testing, deployment, global availability, fault tolerance, networking, and SLO/SLI monitoring.

Problem Solving

Able to quickly orient and overcome obstacles to successfully solve issues at hand. Able to analyze and troubleshoot issues to find solutions that are researched, cost-effective and realistic.

Software Development

Experienced at both starting projects from scratch, and inheriting legacy codebases. Not afraid unfamiliar languages and systems. Able to grok codebases with ease and write clear, concise code with high-quality documentation.

Technical

  • Kubernetes, Swarm, Docker
  • Terraform, Ansible, Puppet
  • AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, Linode
  • Prometheus, MySQL, SQlite, Postgresql
  • Datacenter Hardware Administration
  • Load Balancing, TLS, Autoscaling
  • DC+Multi-Cloud Networking
  • DNS, IPAM, BGP, IPSec
  • Security/Cryptography Primitives
  • Cisco, Fortinet
  • Git, GitOps, Grafana, Argo
  • CI/CD Platform Automation
  • Python, C, C#, PHP, SQL, Shell
  • Yaml, Json, Jsonnet
  • OS: Debian, Centos, *nix, Windows

Brendan Byers — IcebergByers@protonmail.com — (541) 979-6673