
A little about me
I’m a DevOps Engineer for Linux-based web hosting companies with a background in System Administration and full-stack web development.
I’m based in Kentucky, but have extensive experience with remote work with teams.
Currently you can find me working as a Team Lead DevOps Engineer for Kinsta managed WordPress hosting, but I am also taking freelance web development and programming projects.
When I’m not working, you can usually find me reading anything and everything, hiking, or traveling.
Curious if I have what it takes for your next project?
Let's get technical!
8 years’ experience building and providing technical support for 300+ WordPress sites including:
- WP CLI
- Design
- Optimization
- Error resolution
- Malware/security
- Migration
- WP MultiSite
Extensive experience with:
- Error resolution
- Migration
- Upgrading
Extensive experience with:
- Optimization
- Migration
- Error resolution
- Magento CLI
Extensive experience with:
- Migration
- Error resolution
- Drupal Multisite
Experience with:
- PrestaShop
- OpenCart
- Zen Cart
- MODX
- Concrete5
- TikiWiki
- phpBB
- SquareSpace (plus migration to WordPress)
- Blogger migration to WordPress
- WordPress.com site migration to WordPress.org application
Sites custom coded with Python + Jinja:
- Colibri Collection
- Probiotic Well
- Others including wiki-type application, personal insurance calculator, and data scraper.
- Custom backend for graphic designer resume website
- Customized PHP themes (WordPress)
- Extensive error resolution of PHP scripts (various CMS)
Custom scripts for sites built from Python, PHP, static HTML, and WordPress applications:
- Popups
- Text/graphic transitions
- Accordion/tabs functionality
- Auto-scaling of photos to real-size per screen resolution (Colibri Collection project)
- Image/product sliders (Probiotic Well)
- Picture-matching game functionality (Colibri Collection)
- Altering auto-play functionality of YouTube videos (Nextvid Stopper for YouTube browser extension)
- Interactive falling snowflakes for promotional ad
- Front-end design for Python/PHP websites
- Various small-business static sites
- CSS media queries for tablet and mobile responsive websites
- HTML5 schema
Extensive work with:
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- NDB Datastore (Google App Engine, custom database design/structure)
Used root access on variety of web hosting servers for:
- Apache/Nginx/MySQL/other server service maintenance and troubleshooting
- Migration of websites (rsync, scp, wget, lftp, etc.)
- Exim/Dovecot/Spam Assassin/SpamExperts maintenance and troubleshooting
- Handling of resource usage abuse cases (parsing logs, firewall changes, and other steps to resolve)
Extensive experience with Linux-based web hosting servers:
- Shared, VPS/cloud, dedicated types
- Chroot environment
- CloudLinux
- LiteSpeed Web Server
- Apache with Nginx proxy/caching
- MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Exim/Dovecot
- SpamAssassin, SpamExperts, and MailChannels
- HHMV
5 years’ experience including:
- Setup/configuration
- Migration with root WHM or cpmove file
- Troubleshooting/error resolution related to underlying server issue or cPanel theme
- Migration of non-cPanel emails to cPanel
Experience with:
- Plesk
- DirectAdmin
- Virtualmin/Webmin
- Others as used by Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, various GoDaddy managed and Linux-based, iPage, 1&1, Dreamhost, Aruba.it, etc.
- Google Cloud Platform (VM management, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and more tools)
- Web project consulting
Anything I’m missing? Please ask! Chances are I’ve played with it or am eager to learn.
I never stop learning new tech or web skills.