TRAVIS RYDER

SYSTEM ARCHITECT + DEVOPS PROFESSIONAL

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GAMER + CONTENT CREATOR

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About Me

From inception and mockup to implementation and live operations, I fully embrace the DevOps methodology. This enables me to design and architect highly available and scalable computer system infrastructure and services.

I see infrastructure and the code that runs on top as a constantly changing machine. Understanding the pieces that make up this intricate puzzle never ceases to peak my interest. I pride myself in building well engineered systems that get the job done, and done well.

In my spare time, I am an avid gamer and tinkerer of systems and tech. As a hobby, I build an design websites for both frontend and backend applications. I'm experienced in the art of frontend design making use of powerful HTML/CSS/Javascript frameworks and modern image and video editing programs. For server side, no language is an obstacle and I pride myself on implementing well-architected systems.

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Birthdate

Email

Location

: February 13

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: Vancouver, BC. Canada

Travis Ryder

HOBBIES & INTERESTS


  • Games


  • Coding


  • Linux


  • Servers


  • AWS


  • Coffee


  • Movies


  • Finance


  • Business

History

Devops Engineer, Programmer, Scrum Master

Hothead Games Inc. May 2015 - Current

Fully embraced the DevOps methodology by bridging the gap between Developer and Operations. Our main focus was on improving the delivery pipeline and time for both game code and server code, in addition to architecting the best possible highly available, fault tolerant systems possible.

Some of the technology used and improved, but not limited to:

  • employing a "microservices first" approach to monolithic, legacy systems;
  • fully embracing AWS CloudFormation and "infrastructure as code" philosophy;
  • made available greater insight into infrastructure health and visibility with enhanced logging pipeline using fluentd and elasticsearch;
  • enhanced infrastructure security utilizing critical AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) technology;

System Administrator, Contract

Linus Media Group 2013 - 2015

Worked with many different software and tools learning key best practice techniques including but not limited to:

  • OVH server hosting
  • MySQL tuning and database administration for high resource server infrastructure
  • Apache tuning for high resource server infrastructure
  • Application Firewall tuning with CloudFlare
  • Invision Power Suite, including Invision Power Board and associated plugins
  • PHP server-side programming
  • HTML/CSS/Javascript for custom, time-limited projects

Additionally, supported infrastructure with maintenance patches and zero-day vulnerability fixes as well as 24/7 on-call in case of emergency.

System Administrator, Developer

Function Point Productivity Software Inc. Mar 2012 - May 2015

Pioneered many of the IT initiatives including but not limited to:

  • asset management system for office equipment;
  • disaster recovery plan for office and in the event of application failure;
  • alerting system for application failures;
  • log management system using centralized log collection server running ELK stack;
  • transition to AWS, architected by me with higher resiliency and fault tolerance;
  • high system availability using AWS auto scaling, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch;
  • company in-house IT;
  • development team development environment using Vagrant

Extended application backend by fixing application errors, implementing features, and assisting with enhancing backend design patterns.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

Kryterion December 2016 Associate Certificate

Bachelor of Technology

BCIT 2012 - Current Degree

Cisco Certified Network Associate

BCIT 2015 - Current Certificate

Network Administrator Technician

BCIT Jan 2016 Certificate

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance Nov 2015 Certificate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Kryterion Oct 2015 Associate Certificate

Ubiquiti Enterprise Wireless Admin

Streakwave Training Academy 2014 Certificate

Milestones Achieved

3242 Cups of Coffee
9726 Commits Pushed
32708.5 Game Hours Played
7780.8 Instances Launched

Skills

10

HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT

Web technology is my forte.

10

AWS

Proficient with all EC2 services, CloudFront, Route53, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, and many others.

9.5

VCS (GIT/PERFORCE/SVN)

With moderate experience in SVN and Perforce, and expert experience with GIT, VCS systems are no challenge.

9.5

LINUX

Proficient experience with RedHat and Debian Linux platforms such as CentOS and Ubuntu

9.5

BASH

Can overcome any technical system challenge using the scripting language BASH

9.3

PYTHON

Currently developing high quality, scalable systems in Python

9.0

PHP

Began my journey with PHP and consider myself proficient with frameworks such as Zend, and Symfony

9.0

MYSQL

High experience with MySQL Admin, moderate experience with Postgres, MariaDB, Redis, CouchDB

9.0

VIDEO EDITING

Experience with software such as Adobe Premiere for video editing

9.0

NETWORKING (CISCO/VYOS)

Certified in Cisco and Ubiquiti (VyOS) routing topics. Configuring networking equipment is no obstacle

9.0

VIRTUALIZATION

Proficient in virtualization technology such as Vagrant and VMware. Experienced with Docker, ESXi, VirtualBox and Parallels

9.0

PUPPET/CHEF/ANSIBLE

Experienced in config management with a variety of software solutions including Puppet, Chef, and Ansible

8.0

WINDOWS SERVER 2012

Experienced in Windows Server 2012 administration

Work Process

IDEA

CONCEPT

DESIGN

DEVELOP

TEST

LAUNCH

Portfolio

I Love to Architect and Develop Highly Available Computer Systems

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