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Registration: 04.08.2023

Jarrod Meyer

Specialization: Lead Devops Engineer / Network Engineering / Solutions architecture
I am a husband, father, photographer, and outdoors enthusiast. I enjoy spending time with my family hiking, cycling, walking, and camping. We've recently learned rock climbing and been on a epic trip across 5 European countries together. I also really love my work. I have been an avid technology student since very young, was one of the early adopters of the new Google search engine (yes, when everyone else was still using Altavista) and had an invite only Gmail address before it was a public service. I left school with the determination to start developing software, but discovered in my first job at an ISP that systems operations and engineering were my thing. I have worked over the last 2 decades with many different technologies in a variety of engineering, architectural, leadership, and even support roles. I love the challenge of solving new problems on a daily basis when doing this work, it is always fresh and exciting.
I am a husband, father, photographer, and outdoors enthusiast. I enjoy spending time with my family hiking, cycling, walking, and camping. We've recently learned rock climbing and been on a epic trip across 5 European countries together. I also really love my work. I have been an avid technology student since very young, was one of the early adopters of the new Google search engine (yes, when everyone else was still using Altavista) and had an invite only Gmail address before it was a public service. I left school with the determination to start developing software, but discovered in my first job at an ISP that systems operations and engineering were my thing. I have worked over the last 2 decades with many different technologies in a variety of engineering, architectural, leadership, and even support roles. I love the challenge of solving new problems on a daily basis when doing this work, it is always fresh and exciting.

Portfolio

Thusa Business Support

Product Development Engineer. ● Developed and supported Linux SME systems and related products.

BulkSMS.com

Senior Systems Administrator ● Operated in a small team running all Linux, networking, security, and database platforms. ● Managed on-premise infrastructure platform for 50+ IT projects. ● Designed and implemented new IT services and solutions.

BulkSMS.com

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. ● Led infrastructure projects as the technical lead, defining and implementing the technical roadmap. ● Operated and maintained a 24x7 mission-critical infrastructure to ensure high availability and reliability. ● Designed and managed a large-scale relational data warehousing project, handling billions of rows and custom ETL processes. ● Successfully migrated a messaging platform - handling 2 million messages and 20 million requests per day - to AWS infrastructure.

Skills

Ansible
Apache
Aurora
AWS
Bamboo
Bash
BGP
Cloudformation
Devops
DNS
Docker
Docker Swarm
ETL
Flask
Git
Gitlab-CI
Golang
HTML/CSS
Icinga
Incident management
IPsec
IT Helpdesk management
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Linux
Linux/Unix Administration
Logicmonitor
LXC
Mikrotik
MySQL
Nagios
Network administration
Network Engineering
Nginx
OSPF
Perl
PostgreSQL
PPTP
Puppet
Python
RDS
Request Tracker
RIP
Route53
Solutions architecture
Terraform
Tomcat
Twitter Bootstrap
VMware
VPN
Xen
XML
Zerotier

Work experience

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
since 01.2016 - Till the present day |BulkSMS.com
ETL, AWS
● Led infrastructure projects as the technical lead, defining and implementing the technical roadmap. ● Operated and maintained a 24x7 mission-critical infrastructure to ensure high availability and reliability. ● Designed and managed a large-scale relational data warehousing project, handling billions of rows and custom ETL processes. ● Successfully migrated a messaging platform - handling 2 million messages and 20 million requests per day - to AWS infrastructure.
Founder / Architect
since 06.2009 - Till the present day |SudoIT
Linux, network, cloud
● Developed and operated a highly scalable Monitoring-as-a Service cloud subscription product. ● Provided Linux, network, and cloud consulting services to clients.
Senior Systems Administrator
01.2009 - 01.2016 |BulkSMS.com
Linux, network
● Operated in a small team running all Linux, networking, security, and database platforms. ● Managed on-premise infrastructure platform for 50+ IT projects. ● Designed and implemented new IT services and solutions.
Product Development Engineer
11.2006 - 12.2008 |Thusa Business Support
Linux SME systems
● Developed and supported Linux SME systems and related products.
Senior Systems Administrator
05.2004 - 11.2006 |Cybertek
ISP, Unix, WAN network
● Led a team in an ISP operations environment, responsible for technical support, Unix systems, and WAN networking.

Educational background

National Senior Certificate (N3)
Till 2003
Intec College

Languages

zaProficientgbNative