Jeff Silverman

 

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SUMMARY

 

I have years of experience running computers ranging from running 2,000 servers at Amazon to a single scientific application for the United States Forest Service. I have detailed knowledge of how networks work and how they fail.  I have extensive experience with python.  I have some experience running MySQL. My experience is illustrated in specific accomplishments below.

 

EDUCATION

 

Certificate Cyber Securioty Coding Dojo

 

Certificate Amazon Web Services (AWS)/ University of Washington        June 2014

 

Certificate Python Programming/ University of Washington        June 2011

 

B.S. Physics/ Harvey Mudd College

 

GOALS

 

I would like to use Python for some sort of operational, networking, or testing task.  I've used python to analyze network behavior and test network devices.  However, if a Natural Language Processing opportunity or a scientific programming opportunity came my way, I would certainly take it.

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Linux System Engineer        February 2021-March 2023

Expeditors International

Run a fleet of 81 servers using ansible, bash scripts.  Update software, security scans, documentation, testing.

 

TUTOR        Oct 2020– February 2022

Varsity Tutors

Tutor mathematics, physics, computer science for students from 10 years old to adult learners.

 

ENUMERATOR        Jun 2020-Oct 2020

United States Census Bureau

Collected information from people residing in the United States.

 

TEST AUTOMATION        Apr 2020-Sepr 2020

Microsoft Azure

Write test automation software for a new internal controller

 

RESIDENT COUNSELOR – ON CALL        Jan 2020-May 2020

Downtown Emergency Services Center (DESC)

Care for homeless people: counseling, managing medications (including controlled substances), enforcing security, COVID-19 prevention procedures, minor repairs to electronics and facilities, training employees in LibreOffice and Windows/10.

 

PYTHON DEVELOPER        Jun 2019-Aug 2019

American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)

Write software in python to monitor network devices and name servers.  Review documentation prior to publication.

 

ASSISTANT CONSULTANT        Nov 2018-Feb 2019

Tata Consultancy Services

Write tools to automate alerting on various conditions.  Investigate and remediate false alarms.  Write documentation.

 

 

SYSTEM ENGINEER        Dec 2017-Aug 2018

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Write tools to analyze the configurations of network devices in Amazon’s AWS network.  Automate patching procedures.  

 

 

RESIDENT ENGINEER        Dec 2016-Aug 2017

Juniper Networks

Write automated test software for new software in Juniper switches and routers

 

 

CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER (CTO)        Jun 2016-Mar 2017

Maxset LLC.

Use Natural Language Processing (NLP) software such as nltk, textblob, and spaCy to develop a new knowledge representation system, called skyset, for simplifying process documentation.  

 

 

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER IN TEST (SDET)        Aug 2016-Sep 2016

IMPINJ

Develop test cases for the IPv6 implementation of the Impinj radio frequency identity (RFID) readers, using behave, python, wireshark, tcpdump, and pycharm.

 

LINUX & UNIX SYSTEM ENGINEER        Jan 2016-Jun 2016

Tommy Bahama

Managed an assortment of servers running RHEL 6.x and Solaris servers.  Automated patching processes.  Built tools using python.  Audit security.  Transition server monitoring from Big Brother to nagios.  

 

DEVOPS ENGINEER        Mar 2015-Nov 2015

The Walt Disney Company

Managed an Elasticsearch Logstash and Kibana (ELK) cluster.  Wrote software in python and ruby and chef to automate various system administrator tasks.  Automated the monthly patching process using chef recipes.  Participated in on-call rotation.    

 

 

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR        Dec 2014-Feb 2015

UIEVolution

Reverse engineered and documented production systems.  Managed development and test MySQL databases.  Created a commercial.

 

 

SYSTEMS ENGINEER        Jun 2014-Oct 2014

Sweetlabs

Wrote scripts in Python.  Monitored the monitors for abnormal conditions that the automated monitors didn't detect.  Built and managed an OpenStack cluster.  Wrote munin plugins.

 

 

LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR – NONSTANDARD INFRASTRUCTURE        Jun 2013-Jun 2014

Google Widevine Youtube Content Protection / Kirkland, Washington

Run a small linux software development lab, including hardware maintenance, operation of the network hardware (all Juniper, except for an F5 Global Traffic Manager), run the backups, NAS, facilities, physical security.  Remediated the heartbleed vulnerability. Document procedures, such as backup recovery, network software updates, disaster recovery. Write Python and Bash scripts for linux servers  

 

DEVELOPER SUPPORT SPECIALIST        Apr 2012-Mar 2013

Google Compute Engine/ Seattle, Washington

Customer support of Google's Compute Engine cloud computing IaaS solution. Write and test software in python, bash, and SQL.  Test in linux and MS-Windows/7.  

 

INSTRUCTOR        Sep 2012-May 2013

University of Washington/ Seattle, Washington

Taught python to adult learners.  Fall quarter was basic syntax and usage of the language.  Spring quarter was various advanced topics:subprocesses, relational databases (MySQL and sqlite3), non-relational databases (redis), benchmarking, the pdb debugger.  

 

TEST ENGINEER        Mar 2011-Mar 2012

F5 Networks Product Development/ Seattle, Washington

Engineer performance testing on F5 products such as Local Traffic Manager (LTM)  

 

NETWORK SUPPORT ENGINEER        Nov 2006-Mar 2011

F5 Networks customer support/ Seattle, Washington

Support F5 customers using telephone and E-mail. I specialized in the BigIP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Enterprise Manager (EM) devices and the Web Accelerator Module (WAM) and Mail Security Module (MSM). Use a laboratory environment to simulate customer problems and test solutions. The lab environment contains many services built on linux servers

 

For a list of presentations I have given and documentation I am writing, please refer to my portfolio page.

See my github repository.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

D. Beeman, J. Silverman, R. Lynds and M.R. Anderson, “Modeling studies of amorphous carbon,” Phys. Rev. B30, 870 (1984).

 

Testing HTTPS client using openssl to simulate a server

 

See my portfolio page for additional publications and lectures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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