Gabriel Ortiz
Senior DevOps Engineer
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Industry
- Information Services
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Gabriel Ortiz's Overview
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- Senior Systems Administrator at BOKU, Inc.
- Past
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- Contractor at Xynergy, Inc
- Director at Quelab
- Systems Management Engineer at Glacier Techologies
- Systems Administration Consultant at Pinon Marketing Group
- Founder / CTO at Rarefied Technologies, Inc
- Contractor at 2010 Tau Technologies, LLC
- Systems Administrator at Samba Holdings, Inc
- Systems Analyst II at University of New Mexico
- Lead Programmer/Executive Officer at Zenjo Consulting LLC
- Education
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- The University of New Mexico
- Recommendations
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8 people have recommended Gabriel
- Connections
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172 connections
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Gabriel Ortiz's Summary
Systems / Operations Engineer
Specialties
DevOps, configuration management, git, Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Arch Linux, Ubuntu Server, systems and network monitoring with Zabbix, Nagios and Icinga, Atlassian software, Nerf gun warfare.
Gabriel Ortiz's Experience
Senior Systems Administrator
BOKU, Inc.
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry
October 2011 – Present (5 months) San Francisco Bay Area
I'm responsible for mission-critical production infrastructure. We utilize version control (git) and configuration management (Puppet) to manage our systems. I'm building out a staging environment and helping create Agile processes for our team.
Contractor
Xynergy, Inc
May 2010 – October 2011 (1 year 6 months)
I provide systems architecture services to Xynergy, a web design and hosting company. I helped them design and migrate a virtual machine cluster using Citrix XenServer for their contracted web service clients and on-going support and maintenance for their various web and database needs.
Director
Quelab
Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry
May 2009 – October 2011 (2 years 6 months)
Quelab is a not-for-profit hackerspace in Albuquerque, NM.
Systems Management Engineer
Glacier Techologies
April 2010 – September 2011 (1 year 6 months)
Responsible for providing support on the Datacenter Initiative contract for the US Forest Service, I'm an integration engineer for the capacity management team. In this role, I have been responsible for project planning and data management for our internal datacenter management tool, which is written in Python and based on the Tornado framework, the database is a git repository of JSON objects.
Founder / CTO
Rarefied Technologies, Inc
April 2008 – May 2010 (2 years 2 months)
Rarefied Technologies uses advanced linguistic classification algorithms to do semantic analysis and text classification for social media. As founder, I developed the patent-pending software technology powering our products as well as a scalable cloud-based infrastructure to support their deployment.
Contractor
2010 Tau Technologies, LLC
October 2008 – January 2010 (1 year 4 months)
I provided system-level support of Linux servers and desktop machines for Tau. I also maintained DNS, NFS, DHCP, database, authentication, version control, and backup servers. I designed, built and deployed a Debian-based diskless cluster for simulation of energy weapons systems.
Systems Administrator
Samba Holdings, Inc
April 2007 – April 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Responsible for providing system-level support and designing and implementing all network infrastructure, I built and maintained web, email, DNS, DHCP, SAN, NAS, database, firewall, authentication, application, software development and backup servers in a mixed Linux and Windows environment. I supported the engineering team in performance tuning and scaling our infrastructure to meet the rapid growth and increasing sophistication of our products, primarily by introducing virtualization and high-availability load balancing.
Systems Analyst II
University of New Mexico
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
August 2005 – April 2007 (1 year 9 months)
Responsible for providing system-level support of UNIX based resources, hardware and software tools, including installation, configuration, maintenance, and support of these systems. I maintain web, email, DNS, NFS, DHCP, database, authentication, application, licence and backup servers, among others. I designed and implemented network security including iptables-based firewalls, firewall appliances and overall network design. I also maintained a department-wide Wi-Fi network and assist with systems design and engineering for research professors, some of which includes multi-processor and cluster systems as well as realtime control systems.
Lead Programmer/Executive Officer
Zenjo Consulting LLC
May 2004 – April 2007 (3 years)
Zenjo Consulting provides web development, online marketing and custom web-based software solutions to small businesses. As part-owner and lead programmer, I handled internal systems such as server administration and security, accounting and billing as well as development of content management and other dynamic systems utilizing open source tools such as PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, MySQL and PostgreSQL. I also supported end users via phone and email with their web hosting and general networking issues.
Gabriel Ortiz's Skills & Expertise
Gabriel Ortiz's Education
The University of New Mexico
1999 – 2004
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