Justin Merrill, MBA, BS .:|:. Platform Engineer

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Skills & Tool Experience

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Container Orchestration

• Kubernetes
  • AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
  • Bare Metal / Hypervisor (On Premise)
    • XenServer / XCP-ng
    • libvirt
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Red Hat OpenShift
• Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Docker Hub
  • Docker Desktop
• podman
  • podman-compose
  • Podman Desktop (Red Hat)

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Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

• OpenTofu || Terraform
  • Terragrunt
• Ansible
  • Ansible AWX / Ansible Tower
  • RunDeck

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Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD)

• GitLab CICD
• GitHub Actions
• Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS)
• Atlassian Suite
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Bamboo (with FishEye & Crucible)

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GitOps

• FluxCD
• ArgoCD
• SOPS

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Virtualization (Hypervisors)

• Xen Project (XenAPI / XAPI)
  • XenServer
  • XCP-ng by Vates
  • OpenStack
  • Apache CloudStack
• VMware ESXi
• libvirt (Linux KVM/QEMU)
• Hyper-V (Microsoft)
• ProxMox

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Platform Architecture Experience

• Music Distribution Platform
• Developer API Platform
• Telecommunications API Platform
• Kong API Platform
• SOAP API Platforms
• Social Media Platform
• WordPress Platforms

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Cloud Vendor Experience

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Microsoft Azure (Azure)
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Digital Ocean
• Linode
• IONOS
• Multiple Generic Cloud/VPS Vendors (eg. RackNerd, OVHcloud, ArubaCloud)

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Databases

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL / MariaDB
• MongoDB
• Oracle
• Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
• Redis

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Titles, Duties and Work Function Experience

Principle Platform Engineer, Platform Manager, Platform Developer

DevOps / DevSecOps Engineer, DevOps Specialist

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Full-Stack Engineer, Full-Stack Developer, Software Engineer, Software Developer

API Engineer, API Developer, API Integration Engineer

Database Engineer, Database Instructor

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