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title: Resume
description: job history & resume
author: wompmacho
date: 2026-07-03 00:00:00.000000+00:00
lastmod: 2026-07-03
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    <td colspan="2" class="role">Special Projects Lead - <span class="google-blue">G</span><span class="google-red">o</span><span class="google-yellow">o</span><span class="google-blue">g</span><span class="google-green">l</span><span class="google-red">e</span></td>
    <td class="dates">September 2024 – Present</td>
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        <li><strong>Technical Incidents & Escalation Analysis:</strong> Resolve technical incidents and escalations by performing analysis utilizing existing data models or leveraging custom-built data infrastructure to formulate next steps to reach conclusions, such as troubleshooting complex platform failures.</li>
        <li><strong>Operational Analysis:</strong> Develop detailed reports, data pipelines, and multiple dashboards to communicate key insights for data-driven analysis, including managing the Site Health Dashboard and automating alerts and reporting processes.</li>
        <li><strong>Code-Level Resolution & Tooling:</strong> Resolutions for complex issues by leveraging tool development and scripting, including migrating core incident tools to Go command-line utilities and resolving root-cause bugs in global connection sessions.</li>
        <li><strong>Workflow Automation Solutions:</strong> Identify opportunities to build or enable solutions that improve, support, or empower team operations, such as designing and scripting a web-based PTO and Overtime Management scheduling application.</li>
        <li><strong>Mentorship & Technical Coaching:</strong> Foster team growth and professional development by leading training courses, facilitating technical study sessions, and providing 1-on-1 coaching as an official corporate mentor, and served as a primary author on multiple technical training resources.</li>
        <li><strong>Operational Visualization & GCP Integration:</strong> Developed an HTML/SVG-based operational boundary visualization platform, creating custom Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects and uploading facility layouts to help teams track operational zones.</li>
        <li><strong>Technical Documentation:</strong> Authored and maintained critical site-wide documentation, playbooks, and standard operating procedures (SOPs), consolidating technical procedures to standardize execution processes.</li>
        <li><strong>Project Coordination:</strong> Audited long-standing task queue blockages and built standard tracking sheets to assist building leads, managed weekend staffing assignment workflows, and coordinated weekly status snapshots for operations reviews.</li>
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    <td colspan="2" class="role">Operations Engineer / Infrastructure Technician - <span class="google-blue">G</span><span class="google-red">o</span><span class="google-yellow">o</span><span class="google-blue">g</span><span class="google-green">l</span><span class="google-red">e</span></td>
    <td class="dates">July 2023 – September 2024</td>
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        <li><strong>API Integration Scripts:</strong> Wrote a command-line location tool integrated with internal inventory and location-tracking APIs, enabling active field engineers to query and identify server locations.</li>
        <li><strong>Technical Documentation Strategy:</strong> Created troubleshooting and diagnostic guides that became the official training reference for the introductory systems diagnostic course, upskilling peer trainees via internal mentoring circles.</li>
        <li><strong>Feature Integration Proposals:</strong> Drafted and presented feature requirement requests to the global operations advisory board to enable partial repairs in host provisioning systems, solving database transaction blockers across multiple regions.</li>
        <li><strong>System Daemon Debugging & Patching:</strong> Root-caused proprietary server node reboot failures during system burn-in, posting a terminal hotfix that resolved blocked machines across multiple sites and led to a global systemd configuration patch.</li>
        <li><strong>Telemetry Dashboards:</strong> Setup daily business intelligence dashboard reports pulling weekly engineer output metrics to track site resource allocation and backlogs.</li>
        <li><strong>Incident Tracking Frameworks:</strong> Launched a dedicated security incident tracking framework, reducing data-security incident resolution cycles and building ticket tracking workflow components.</li>
        <li><strong>Critical Incident Troubleshooting:</strong> Handled urgent hardware and networking escalations (VLAN switches, remote management unit NIC timeouts, MAC address configuration issues in host provisioning systems) to maintain system SLOs.</li>
        <li><strong>Shell Scripting Automation:</strong> Developed and deployed custom utility scripts to automate local environment setups, handle diagnostic commands, and organize system profile aliases for engineering teams.</li>
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    <td colspan="2" class="role">Porch Light Properties LLC</td>
    <td class="dates">Jun 2020 - Jul 2023</td>
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        <li>Developed and implemented long-term systems, development, and planning strategies, including rebranding initiatives.</li>
        <li>Served as Hiring Manager, overseeing onboarding, system administration, and policy management.</li>
        <li>Managed social media, website development/design, SEO, and marketing campaigns (including Facebook Ads).</li>
        <li>Utilized Google Analytics and oversaw technology/security initiatives and traditional marketing.</li>
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    <td colspan="2" class="role">Videography, Photography, Film Media, Drone Services</td>
    <td class="dates">Jun 2020 - Jan 2023</td>
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    <td colspan="2" class="role">Tabora Farm and Winery</td>
    <td class="dates">Dec 2019 - May 2020</td>
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        <li>Managed social media, website development/design, and SEO.</li>
        <li>Oversaw tax and licensing compliance for interstate wine shipments.</li>
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    <td colspan="2" class="role">Datacenter Operations Engineering Lead - <span class="twitter-blue">Twitter</span> Inc.</td>
    <td class="dates">March 2015 – September 2017</td>
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        <li><strong>Site Uptime Leadership:</strong> Provided on-site and remote on-call support for multiple regional data centers and points of presence (POPs) across Sacramento, Santa Clara, and Atlanta, consistently exceeding service SLO targets.</li>
        <li><strong>Infrastructure Project Management:</strong> Managed lifecycle schedules for site maintenance projects, including software upgrades, switch deployments, decommissioning runs, and hardware repairs.</li>
        <li><strong>Cross-Functional SRE Support:</strong> Collaborated with network engineering and site reliability teams to triage local network outages and server failures, restoring high-availability services.</li>
        <li><strong>Team Leadership:</strong> Supervised, hired, onboarded, and trained a dedicated site engineering team, coordinating work schedules and career development profiles.</li>
        <li><strong>Technical Ambassadorship:</strong> Represented the company as a technical liaison at industry conferences and events, reporting back to stakeholders on emerging infrastructure technologies.</li>
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    <td colspan="2" class="role">Operations Technician - <span class="google-blue">G</span><span class="google-red">o</span><span class="google-yellow">o</span><span class="google-blue">g</span><span class="google-green">l</span><span class="google-red">e</span></td>
    <td class="dates">November 2012 – March 2015</td>
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        <li><strong>Datacenter Operations & Repairs:</strong> Executed over 11,000 maintenance and component swap actions across thousands of unique server systems, maintaining an 89% hardware intervention completion rate.</li>
        <li><strong>Daily Swaps Record:</strong> Achieved a site-wide operational record for the highest volume of server swaps completed during a single 12-hour shift (over 200 swaps).</li>
        <li><strong>Security Storage Sanitization Project:</strong> Sanitized and destroyed thousands of decommissioned solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard-drive backlogs, successfully clearing historical data security queues in compliance with strict compliance standards.</li>
        <li><strong>Tape Library Migrations:</strong> Led large-scale data retention transition workflows, migrating tens of thousands of archive tapes between storage libraries while troubleshooting and resolving hardware drive failures.</li>
        <li><strong>New Product Introduction (NPI) Hardware Qualification:</strong> Partnered with hardware testing engineers to validate and qualify network switch frameworks, testing high-performance line card interfaces and optical cabling platforms.</li>
        <li><strong>Automated Materials Handling Pilot:</strong> Acted as primary operator and workflow subject for the operations deployment guide of custom datacenter logistics platforms.</li>
        <li><strong>Fiber Infrastructure Optimization:</strong> Resolved connection trace failures in high-density fiber-optic distribution frames and consolidated inventory under a large-scale sorting audit.</li>
        <li><strong>Technical Onboarding & Training:</strong> Onboarded and mentored dozens of contract workers and team members on platform upgrades, hardware diagnostics, and operational workflows, boosting overall team velocity.</li>
        <li><strong>Deployments and Decommissioning:</strong> Decommissioned network switches and fiber runs, participated in decommissioning server clusters, including containerized mobile data center modules.</li>
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        <li><strong>Homelab Infrastructure & Automation:</strong> Automated reverse proxy and custom DNS record allocation in a home server setup by scripting sidecar daemons (npm-sync and pihole-dns-shim) that read Docker socket events and execute API modifications natively via YAML labels.</li>
        <li><strong>Self-Hosted AI & Developer Stack:</strong> Served Gemma model backends via Ollama on a custom local compute host, integrating them with code-server environments via automated Model Context Protocol (MCP) shell execution triggers.</li>
        <li><strong>Hypervisor Virtualization:</strong> Unified a multi-node cluster employing Proxmox VE (Debian) hypervisors and a TrueNAS ZFS RAIDZ2 pool over a high-speed network backbone.</li>
        <li><strong>Docker Container Orchestration:</strong> Managed, deployed, and supported 50+ containerized services and game servers (including Gitea, Pterodactyl, and local database managers) on a Docker host VM, using automated socket-sync configurations to manage routing and DNS.</li>
        <li><strong>Hugo static documentation Pipeline:</strong> Frontend Vendor Decoupling (vendored the Blowfish style layout), Module Mount Mapping (mapped absolute paths outside local workspace), Build Automation CI/CD (programmed Gitea Actions deployment pipelines).</li>
        <li><strong>MeowTab MIDI Editor (REAPER DAW Extension):</strong> Engineered a visual guitar fretboard editor using ReaImGui; dual-layer MIDI sync; headless testing sandbox with Docker/Busted Lua.</li>
        <li><strong>Guitar Tab Downloader:</strong> Developed CLI tool in Go/TypeScript; range query engine for Songsterr networks.</li>
        <li><strong>Web-to-Markdown Scraper:</strong> Go tool utilizing go-readability filters to parse HTML and discard noisy sidebars/ads; concurrent asset downloading using Goroutines.</li>
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    <td colspan="2" class="">Georgia State University - Computer Science</td>
    <td class="dates">2012 - 2017</td>
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    <td colspan="2" class="">Pennridge R.C. High School</td>
    <td class="dates">2004 - 2009</td>
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        <li><strong>Languages & Scripts:</strong> Go (Golang), Java, Bash, Python, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS</li>
        <li><strong>Full-Stack & Platforms:</strong> Spanner, Docker, Docker Compose, Proxmox, Google Cloud Run, Svelte/Sapper</li>
        <li><strong>CI/CD & DevOps:</strong> Gitea Actions, Git, Cloud IDEs, Version Control Systems (VCS), Code Review Systems, Technical Documentation Portals (Hugo/Markdown), Build Systems (Bazel), CI/CD Automation</li>
        <li><strong>Systems & Networks:</strong> Linux/Unix Administration, OPNsense, Reverse Proxy DNS (Pi-hole), Nginx Proxy Manager, Cloudflare</li>
        <li><strong>Observability & AI:</strong> Prompt Engineering, Agentic Tooling models</li>
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        <li>Google: AI for Data Analysis (Issued Jun 2026)</li>
        <li>Google: Maximize Productivity With AI Tools (Issued Jun 2026)</li>
        <li>Google: AI for Writing and Communicating (Issued Jun 2026)</li>
        <li>Google: Introduction to AI (Issued Jun 2026)</li>
        <li>LPIC-1: Linux Professional Institute (Feb 2014–Feb 2019)</li>
        <li>SUSE Certified Linux Administrator (SUSE CLA) (Feb 2014–Feb 2019)</li>
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