Charles N Wyble

Senior (Staff level) System Engineer/SRE/Architect with extensive Linux/Windows/Networking/Cyber security background and experience

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Austin TX / Raleigh NC / Remote

Skills

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

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

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

High School Graduate