Paul Czarkowski

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About Paul Czarkowski

http://tech.paulcz.net/page/resume/Specializing in team and technology leadership with a broad range of skills and knowledge across most technologies. A Strong advocate of DevOps methodologies, Automation, Repeatability, Kanban, etc.Strong background in finding and eliminating bottlenecks and increasing efficiency both in systems and in people. Misc : Apache, Squid, Puppet, Cobbler, BIND/MS DNS, MySQL, MS SQL, Active Directory, Exchange, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira, Perforce, Splunk, ELK, Github, Chef, Vagrant, Ansible, Jenkins, Openstack, Achievements -Launched SWTOR to over 2M initial players with no major downtime or issues. Arguably the smoothest MMO launch ever.Built and Architected highly availaboly, highly utilized Perforce server ( peaked @ 20+ million operations per day ).Built and deployed 3 major datacenter co-locations ( over servers in total ) within a six month period.Contributed code to Logstash opensource project, wrote juju charms (Canonical) for Logstash/Elasticsearch/Kibana that were accepted into the official Charm Store, created and shared several vagrant development environments on my github page for various projects, including Openstack.Technical lead at Bluebox for the Managed Openstack Product ( https://github.com/blueboxgroup/ursula )Built out Telemetry and SRE Platform ( https://GitHub.com/IBM/cuttle )[and formed a team to maintain it] at Bluebox/IBM to make Openstack managable and installable behind the firewall ( with no internet access )