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Charles N Wyble
Senior (Staff level) System Engineer/SRE/Architect with extensive Linux/Windows/Networking/Cyber security background and experience
[ Github Profile ] . [ Linkedin Profile ] . [ reachableceo@reachableceo.com ] . [ 818 280 7059 ] . [ Austin TX / Raleigh NC / Remote ]
Highlights from my 22 year of experience
- Developed and implemented a process to switch thousands of desktops providing digital signage functionality from Fedora to Debian in a completely automated fashion using a custom initrd.
- Developed and implemented an internal private cloud orchestration and provisioning system for a hardware development engineering team that handled the entire provisioning lifecycle for physical and virtual systems.
- Developed and implemented standardized language and procedures and incident investigation automation for a large technical support organization with high turnover.
- Developed and implemented an automated order status and payment handling interactive voice response application using Angel.ccm with a backend web service returning Voice XML. This allows call center personnel to focus on revenue generating opportunities instead of administrative matters.
- Provided technician support to a team of electrical engineers building the power system for the radar of FrakenSAM in Ukraine. Handled high / low voltage wiring and plumbing and documentation of those systems.
- Provided root cause analysis , mitigation and remediation of security breaches by advanced persistent threat actors at high value targets.
- Project managed a successful brand new data center build from bare dirt to serving content in 86 days. Oversaw 8 billion dollars of capital deployment.
- Led and consulted tier 1 payment compliance industry (PCI) implementations for some of the worlds largest brands (including at a payment processor). \pagebreak
Employment History
Comprehensive employment history available on my Linkedin Profile
CDK Global | Senior System Engineer | July 2024 - October 2024
Apple Computer | Senior System Administrator | March 2024 - July 2024
SHEIN.com | Staff Site Reliability Engineer | December 2022 - August 2023
3M | Senior Site Reliability Engineer | March 2020 - November 2022
TippingPoint | Staff System/Network Architect | March 2012 - June 2019
HostGator.com | Automation and Escalation Engineer | March 2011 - May 2012
RippleTV | Systems Engineer | October 2008 - Jaunary 2010
Walt Disney Internet Group | Site Reliability Engineer | August 2006 - September 2007
Electronic Clearing House | Senior Linux System Administrator | April 2005 - July 2006
GSI Commerce | HPUX/Windows/Linux System Administrator | March 2002 - February 2005
ReachableCEO Enterprises | Freelancer | January 2001 - December 2024
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Skills
| Skill | Experience | Skill Details |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | 22 years | RHEL,Debian,Ubuntu,kickstart,PXE, LDAP,SSSD,RPM/Deb package creation, quotas,extended permissions, clustering, NFS, Samba |
| Unix | 5 years | HPUX/Solaris |
| Windows | 22 years | Server (2008 2016), Windows client automated deployment (7,8,10,11), Active Directory, Group Policy, WSUS, Certificate Services, AD DNS, AD DHCP, complex multiple forest and domain setups, LDAP |
| Free/Libre/Open Source Server software | 22 years | Apache, Postfix, Qmail, Dovecot, Courier, Nginx, Matamo, Discourse, Wordpress, Mautic,Dolibarr, Revive, Firefly, Cloudron, Coolify, Gitea, Gitlab, GitHub, Git, Jenkins, Rundeck, N8N, Mysql,Postgresql, LetsEncrypt, ACME, cfssl |
| Cyber Security | 22 years | PCI Compliance (tier 1 implementations), OpenVAS<, Lynis, security hardening, audits, breach response and mitigation, patch and vulnerability management. AppArmor, SeLinux, Centrify, Tripwire, Integrit, OSSEC |
| Networking | 22 years | Linux Virtual Server, HAProxy, Ubiquiti Unifi, Opnsense, Pfsense, HP, Cisco, Arista, Dell, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, PXE, IPS, IDS, GRE, IPSEC. Wireguard, OpenVPN, Nebula, Tailscale, RADIUS. Mostly layer2 data center/campus/access some WAN,firewall,layer3 |
| Monitoring | 22 years | Uptime Kuma, Librenms, Zabbix, Zenoss, Nagios, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) |
| Virtualization | 22 years | VmWare, Parallels,HyperV, KVM, Xen |
| Cloud | 5 years | AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes |
| Containerization | 15 years | LXC, Docker,OpenVZ |
| Configuration management/InfrastructureAsCode(IAC) | 22 years | FetchApply, Terraform/OpenTOfu, Ansible, Hashicorp Packer/Vault |
| Ticket / incident / project management | 22 years | Jira, ServiceNow,Redmine,RT |
| Git | 15 years | Branching, merging, multiple teams, external vendors, submodules |
| SRE | 4 years | Grafana, Prometheus, Signoz, Wazuh |
| LLM | 2 years | OpenWebUI, Apple Silicon, QA/validation, RAG, data cleaning/prep |
| Programming | 5 years | J2ME,PHP,Ruby,TCL/TK,Java,C,C++ |
| Automation | 22 years | Bash,PowerShell,Perl |
| Embedded development | 5 years | Raspberry pi, arduino, seeduino, Lego Mindstorms |
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