Charles N Wyble
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#### Senior (Staff level) System Engineer/SRE/Architect with extensive Linux/Windows/Networking/Cyber security background and experience 
##### [ [Github Profile](https://github.com/reachableceo) ] . [ [Linkedin](www.linkedin.com/in/charles-wyble-412007337) [ reachableceo@reachableceo.com ] . [ 818 280 7059 ]
Austin TX / Raleigh NC / Remote
 

Skills
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- **Linux** (22 years) : RHEL/Debian/Ubuntu, kickstart, PXE, LDAP, SSSD, RPM/Deb package creation, quotas, extended permissions, clustering, AppArmor, SeLinux, Centrify, Tripwire, Integrit, OSSEC. 
- **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, security hardening, audits, breach response and mitigation, patch and vulnerability management. 
- **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 
- **Storage** (22 years) : NFS, Samba, CIFS, Netapp, ZFS, True/Free NAS, 3par, MSA, Equallogic, EMC, generic iscsi
- **Virtualization**  (22 years) : VmWare, Parallels,HyperV, KVM, Xen
- **Containerization** (12 years) : LXC, Docker 
- **Configuration management** (22 years) : Slack, Cfengine, Puppet, FetchApply, Ansible, Hashicorp Packer/Vault
- **Embedded** (5 years) : Raspberry pi, arduino, seeduino, Lego Mindstorms
- **Programming/Automation** (22 years) : Bash , J2ME, PHP, Ruby, PowerShell, TCL/TK, Java. 
- **Ticket / incident / project management** (22 years): Jira, ServiceNow,Redmine,RT.
- **Git** (15 years) : branching, merging, multiple teams, external vendors, submodules etc. 
- **LLM** (2 years) : OpenWebUI, Apple Silicon, QA/validation, RAG, data cleaning/prep etc.
- **Current growth/learning focus** : Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD, GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Helm. Also Saylor.org MBA program.

 

Projects
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- Fedora to Debian field switch
	- #todo Flesh this out with details of switching several thousand systems from Fedora to Debian
- Datacenter buildout in 86 days for 8 billion dollars 
	- #todo Flesh this out with how I managed this project  
- Global AD build out/PCI compliance
	- #todo Flesh this out with how I managed this project 
- ECH massive vertical scale server build out 
	- #todo Flesh this out with how I did cool things and stuff
- other cool project (go through CV to find) #todo
	- #todo Find and flesh out
 

Work history
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- **CDK Global**  **Senior System Engineer** July 2024 - October 2024
	
	- Worked with Hashicorp Packer/Vault and VmWare to create RHEL9 image and fully automated installation process.
	- Performed a number of security vulnerability remediations end to end from initial report to gathering proof of remediation. 
	
	
- **Apple Computer**  **Senior System Administrator**  March 2024 - July 2024
	
	- Extensive change management across P0/P1 systems and incidents with CEO level visibility. 
	- Improved the on-boarding and core day to day procedural documentation for the team.

- **SHEIN.com**  **Staff Site Reliability Engineer**  December 2022 - August 2023

	- Provided comprehensive project management/implementation expertise in migrating SHEIN.COM US business to US owned/operated systems. 
	- Improved the on-boarding and core day to day procedural documentation for the team.
	- Did extensive work with self-hosted/internal LLM to provide a unified knowledge access experience for a diverse, global, multi lingual, multi modal workforce. 


- **3M** **Senior Site Reliability Engineer** March 2020 - November 2022
- **Dell Residency** **Resident System/Network Expert** October 2019 - March 2020
- **TippingPoint** **Staff System/Network Architect** March 2012 - June 2019
- **HostGator** **Automation and Escalation Engineer** March 2011 - May 2012
- **RippleTV** **System 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
 
Education
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High School Graduate