Tim Galyean

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About Tim Galyean

Linux Systems Engineer with experience in multiple large scale projects including design, implementation, administration, and training. I enjoy improving workflow optimization via research, automation and scalable solutions. Certifications:RHCT / RHCSA - RHEL / Experience- Cloud SME for design, analysis, and integration of managed services on the Rackspace Cloud- Assisted in architecting all the critical components and infrastructure related to Codero's Managed Services offering- Improve team work flow and management using Six Sigma process improvement- Work with Software Engineer's using Agile development life cycles to provide stable applications, bug reporting, and scalability- Committer for various Ning Open Source projects- Integrated interface auto discovery in Open Source NetApp monitoring project Theia- Continuous improvement in nagios monitoring by writing python based plugins to parse JSON objects from restful API health checks using nagios and JSON standards- Datacenter operations- Infrastructure security, audits, and access control- Build and deploy scalable architecture using load balancing, advanced network topologies, automation, redundant systems, high performance software, research, and optimization- Wrote,"pygelf", a Python library for the Graylog2 Gelf HTTP Input https://github.com/tgalyean/pygelfScripting: bash, Python, RubyOperating Systems: CentOS, RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, SolarisLoad Balancing: HAProxy, Zeus, BigIP F5Monitoring: Nagios, Cacti, Nimbus, Zenoss, Pingdom, Newrelic, Graphite / metricsdWeb Servers: Apache, lighthttpd, NginxVirtualization: Xen, Xen Server, lxc, Solaris ZonesVersion Control: Git, SVNConfiguration Management: puppet, chefAWS: EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, EBS, CloudFront, ElasticacheLogging / Analytics: syslog-ng, fluentd, Graylog, ElasticsearchAPI Platforms: Apigee