Bryan Whitehead

Current

• Sr. Database Administrator at Digg

Past

• Sr Systems Engineer at LiveOps Inc
• Applications Support Analyst at yellowpages.com
• Sr Systems Administrator at Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Education

• University of Phoenix

Connections

109 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• Current gig

Bryan Whitehead’s Summary

DB Kung Fu. Like big messes of replication, data, and not enough resources. Fixing these problems is fun and rewarding. I also enjoy hacking perl and php to make all the data in such a system useful.

Dilbert Summary: Always be busy. Challenged. Work that is impressive and cutting edge. Use current skills to full potential while building new skills. Work with those who value hard work and expect nothing less than excellent in an atmosphere of technical and professional growth.

Bryan Whitehead’s Specialties:

Database and system administration, configuration, kernel tweaking, and general Linux server hacking. Building small systems that scale big with little pain.

Bryan Whitehead’s Experience

• Sr. Database Administrator

  Digg

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  MySQL 5.0.x: multiple replication chains
  MySQL storage engines: SolidDB, InnoDB, MyISAM
  memcached pools: query caching layer
  Apache 2.x: php
  python, perl, bash

• Sr Systems Engineer

  LiveOps Inc

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 2 months)

  MySQL (4.x, 5.x) DBA - replication chain of over 20 servers with multiple write masters
  Maintain 100’s of servers in multiple remote datacenters across US
  F5 load-balancers, Cisco switches, Cisco routers, server networking bonding, and LAMP stacks.
  DNS (BIND 4.x, 9.x), Nagios (1.2 and 2.0) network/server monitoring, Sendmail (8.x and 9.x), and Postfix (2.x).
  Solaris (8 - 10), Linux (Redhat AS 2.1-4), IOS (Cisco), and Windows (XP, Advanced Server)
  Media Gateways: Cisco AS5850, MGX8880, ONS 15454 and PGW using SIP, RTP, ISDN, PRI, DS3, OC3 on at+t, qwest, mci, sprint, and other minor telcos (also some Sonus Media Gateway gear)
  Asterisk, SER, Cisco SIP Proxy Server, proprietary Call Managers, and Interactive Voice Response
  Extensive script writing in Perl, Bash, JavaScript, and Python.

• Applications Support Analyst

  yellowpages.com

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 2 months)

  Application Support Analyst / System Architect
  Network stack tweaking, SNAT, DNAT, load balancing (F5), QoS on Linux.
  Build new infrastructure for yellowpages.com
  FASTsearch: Search Engine Administrator
  FASTsearch is key software for yellowpages backend. Responsible for production, staging, QA, and development.
  Datacenters all over continental US.
  Oracle DBA: Oracle 9i
  MySQL DBA: MySQL 4.x
  Apache: Apache 1.3.x with (and without) ATG Dynamo JAVA stack
  RPM: author of internal yellowpages.com rpms for RedHat Linux AS 2.x, and 3.x
  RedHat Enterprise Linux: AS kickstart and OpenSSI deployment

• Sr Systems Administrator

  Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  (Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  June 2000 — July 2004 (4 years 2 months)

  C/C++ Programming: implemented security encryption module for Solaris UNIX
  Acting manager for team of seven system administrators
  Scored top 2% on mandated NASA System and Internet Administration tests administered by Brainbench
  Apache 1.3.x and 2.0.x versions for multiple virtual domains on Linux and Solaris platforms
  DBA: MySQL (3.x - 4.x) and Postgresql (6.x - 8.x)
  RPM Packaging: author and maintain internal (JPL) rpm build and distribution packages for multiple Linux distributions and platforms
  Redhat Enterprise Linux: both WS and AS kickstart configuration for automated Linux deployment
  Setup backup system on 3 DLP Tape backup systems with a capacity of 36TB. Used Arkeia Enterprise software.

Bryan Whitehead’s Education

• University of Phoenix

  2004 — 2007

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• Current gig

Bryan Whitehead’s Interests:

Large Database Infrastructure

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