Joseph Michael Doss
Experience
Smallstep Labs, Inc Remote : Dec 2021 - Present
Software Engineer
- API: Created a Python SDK to interface with the Smallstep platform API
- Automation: Used our Python SDK to create three Ansible modules to enable customer to quickly automate SaaS offering on their infrastructure
- Packaging: Produced RPM, Deb, and PIP packages for our various softwares
- On-premises: Created a full solution to package and deploy our entire SaaS app into a reproducible VM appliance to deploy on-premise for Enterprise customers
- Sales: Worked closely with our sales team as an engineering point of contact to assist in the sales of our On-premises deployment solution to Enterprise customers
- Customer Focused: Provided engineering assistance to our customer support team and interfaced directly with customers to ensure they had a successful deployment of our solutions
Dev Community Inc / Forem Remote : May 2020 - Dec 2021
Principal Systems Architect
- Enterprise: Quickly created Forem Cloud solution for managed Forem hosting
- Open Source: Released a free open source software installer for setting up a Forem on three different cloud providers and bare metal servers
Kenna Security, Inc. (Acquired by Cisco) Chicago, IL : January 2017 - May 2020
Director of Engineering Operations
- Management: Leading two teams in Engineering Operations: Systems Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering
- Talent Acquisition: Grew the above teams from zero to twelve direct reports
- Strategy: Executed long term systems architecture plans to provide private VPC deployments, resulting in Kenna's first Fortune 10 client
- Infrastructure: Orchestrated the engineering plan to provide Google Compute deployments for customers adverse to Amazon Web Services in three months
- Development: Created Ansible Operator for deploying our software stack to Kubernetes
Kenna Security, Inc. Chicago, IL : September 2015 - January 2017
Senior Systems Engineer
- Architecture: Designed high availability cloud architecture on AWS, Google Compute, and Azure
- Tooling: Converted production infrastructure and automation from Ubuntu/Chef to Fedora/Ansible
- Logging: Created a new developer friendly Logging, Alerting, Metrics, and Events system (FEK Stack)
- Deployments: Streamlined and stabilized multi-cloud deployment process across nine production environments for six applications
- Development: Standardized and automated new production-like development environment to save developer time
- Elasticsearch: Stabilized a very large mission-critical Elasticsearch cluster with modern devops practices
WiredTree (Acquired by Liquidweb) Chicago, IL : August 2011 - May 2015
Vice President
- Strategy: Designed, executed, and led Linux Systems Administration support team for a start up web hosting company
- Inc500: Helped ensure rapid company growth to place WiredTree on the Inc500 in 2011
- Growth: Facilitated company growth from 3 to 35+ employees over eight years
- Policy: Create and maintain company documentation, processes and policies to enhance customer service and support
- Infrastructure: Maintain key internal Linux systems to ensure high availability
- Datacenter: Designed and implemented datacenter setup for thousands of Linux web servers
- Product Innovation: Provide technical expertise to revamp current products and launch new product offerings
- Talent Management: Interview, hire, train, and manage staff to ensure high quality Linux technical support
- Staff Development: Developed and instructed internal Linux Systems Administration training program in classroom environment
- Operations: Manage 24/7 support operations while providing on call assistance when needed
- Employee Engagement: Ensure employee morale remains high while maintaining business goals
- Coaching: Provide strong leadership and guidance on a daily basis to drive the company forward
WiredTree Chicago, IL : August 2009 - August 2011
Systems Administration, Manager
WiredTree Chicago, IL : August 2006 - August 2009
Lead Systems Administrator, Founding Member
Liquidweb Inc Lansing, MI : August 2002 - 2006
Linux Systems Administrator
Skills
- 25 years of Linux experience
- 20 years of Datacenter experience
- 18 year background in technical leadership
- Expert knowledge of CentOS, Fedora, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora CoreOS, and Gentoo Linux
- Extensive experience with automating infrastructure with Pulumi, Ansible, and Terraform
- In depth understanding of KVM, QEMU, libvirt, Openresty/Nginx, Nomad, Consul, and Containers
- Strong proficiency with Bash, Ruby, Python, FastAPI, SQLModel, Postgresql, RPM, and Git
- Working knowledge with Go and Rust
- Experience with leading and working with agile teams
- Expert in debugging and troubleshooting Linux server issues
- Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills
Education
Michigan State University, BA in Telecommunications, 2004
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