Mike English

I have experience using Chef both via Chef Solo and Chef Server to provision and manage servers for clients. I also have experience using test-kitchen to do test-driven Chef cookbook development, including setting up continuous integration systems for Chef cookbooks.

4+ years experience using Ruby for miscellaneous operations-related scripting and automation tool-smithing as well as troubleshooting and providing bugfixes and small features to existing Rails applications.

I have experience using Ansible to provision and manage servers on Amazon AWS as well as locally (Linux VMs and OS X laptops).

Many years of experience using Bash interactively on Linux and OS X. Some experience writing advanced Bash scripts and making Bash scripts portable to other POSIX shells (e.g. dash & busybox's ash). Some Bash-related blog posts: - https://mikeenglish.net/blog/2011/11/23/considered-harmful/ - https://mikeenglish.net/blog/2016/02/13/bash-completion-tab/ - https://mikeenglish.net/blog/2016/02/14/bash-programmable-completion/

I have experience using Puppet to provision and manage the configuration of servers for a prominent international client. I have given presentations on Puppet, and written blog posts on Puppet. Blog posts: - https://mikeenglish.net/blog/2012/02/27/beyond-bundler-a-configuration-management-starter-kit/ - https://mikeenglish.net/blog/2012/09/13/from-imperative-to-declarative-system-configuration-with-puppet/

I have experience using Git to version control source code and other documents. I have experience with git branching models and workflows based on git-flow. I have experience using GitHub, gitolite, Gitorious, and GitLab, and experience installing, configuring and maintaining gitolite, Gitorious, and GitLab. I have given presentation on how to learn and use Git effectively.

I have experience deploying applications to Heroku, maintaining applications deployed to Heroku, upgrading applications from legacy Heroku stacks, as well as experience deploying open source Heroku alternatives to provide redundancy options in case of disaster.