Christer Edwards

TrueMark: 2022 ‐ current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Maintain CI/CD pipeline health for 200+ Bitbucket pipelines.
Consolidate thousands of DNS records from disparate providers into AWS Route53.
Migrate hundreds of pipelines from JFrog Artifactory to AWS CodeArtifact.
Program automation scripts and tools in Python and Bash.

ThriveDX: 2021 ‐ 2022

Lead Instructor - Cyber Security (UNLV & SDSU)

Teach Cyber Security introductory course for University bootcamps.
Teach Cloud Security fundamentals course (primarily AWS).
Teach Linux Security fundamentals course.
Teach Python Programming fundamentals.

BastilleBSD: 2019 ‐ current

Open Source Developer

Creator and maintainer of BastilleBSD, the open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.
Write documentation, guides, tutorials and give presentations about the technology.
Manage community interactions, review code contributions, address bugs & issues.

Adobe Systems: 2014 ‐ 2019

Computer Scientist, Software Development - Adobe Experience Cloud (TechOps)

Unofficial Adobe "Salt Master"
Architect & co-creator of HubbleStack.
Designed low-latency, global time (NTP) service supporting 150,000+ devices.
Support global anycast DNS solution serving 12B+ queries monthly.
Maintain email relays delivering 750,000+ customer emails per hour.
Maintain internal global CDN for artifact and source code distribution.
Adobe TechOps "Technology Advisory Group (TAG)" contributor.
Adobe TechOps "TechTalk" vetran presenter.

Adobe Systems: 2012 ‐ 2014

SRE, Adobe Analytics - Adobe Experience Cloud (TechOps)

Support Adobe's Reporting and Analytics infrastructure of ~30,000 Linux systems.
Maintainer of custom-built Linux kernel tuned for performance and stability.

Beyond Oblivion: 2011 ‐ 2012

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Support Infrastructure for Beyond Oblivion streaming music service.
Design load balancing and SSL termination solutions.
Work closely with QA to validate and improve service performance.
Maintain 600TB distributed filesystem.
Migrate remote execution and state management solution from Puppet to SaltStack.

University of Utah: 2010 ‐ 2013

Instructor - Technology Education / School of Computing

Teach Enterprise Linux Network Services, Security and Troubleshooting.
Teach fundamentals of web-programming with PHP Level 1 and Level 2.
Teach fundamentals of database use and design with MySQL Level 1 and Level 2.
Teach fundamentals of database driven websites combined technologies crash-course.
Teach fundamentals of jQuery, Level 1.
(Authored or contributed to all class course material.)

The GNOME Foundation: 2010 ‐ 2011

System Administrator

Maintain infrastructure for GNOME Desktop Environment and related projects.
Act as point of contact between Sysadmin team and development projects.
Manage project timelines, goals and requirements with volunteers Sysadmins.
Write and maintain puppet modules for configuration management.
Additional responsibilities include accounts management, mailing lists, web, email, DNS, etc.

Partnet, Inc.: 2008 ‐ 2011

System Administrator

Deploy, secure, and maintain Red Hat, CentOS and FreeBSD servers in support of the Department of Defense EMALL application.
Design and maintain internal infrastructure supporting application development.
Research new technologies to improve internal efficiency and standardization.
Maintain IT Level-1 Department of Defense Clearance (top-secret).

Guru Labs: 2007 ‐ 2008

Linux Instructor

Teach Linux Fundamentals, Administration, Network Services and Security.
Write and test course content including lecture, technology demonstrations and hands-on labs.
Deliver certification exams for Red Hat Certified System Administrators (RHCSA)
Deliver certification exams for Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCE).