Brian Stengaard

Cell: +1 (919) 793 6102
Email: brian (at) stengaard.eu

Digital plumber. Clicks the tubes together that apparently makes up the internet. Enjoys standing on the shoulders of giants in order to compose great software. Hates software that is sitting on the laps of dwarves and limits the operator. Opioniated about infrastructure, but always learning.

Experience

Podio (Citrix) Site Reliability Engineer - Raleigh - 2016-05 → 2017-06

Maintain, operate and scale an extremely complex SaaS product. Balance product direction with operational feasibility.

Fun with terraform and AWS
Battling Elasticsearch, Mysql and chef
Technical lead for the Operations team

Podio (Citrix) Site Reliability Engineer - Copenhagen - 2014-10 → 2016-05

Building and maintaining a build and deployment pipeline. Scaling and upgrading MySQL. Developed internal tooling for reporting of build failures.

Packaging used by Capistrano
Infrastructure management using cloudformation
Continous Integration platform based on Jenkins
Configuration management using chef
Incident management

Issuu DevOps Engineer - Copenhagen - 2012-04 → 2014-10

Building and maintaining a build and deployment pipeline. Building tools that allow developers to deliver their apps even faster and while increasing repeatability.

Deployment systems based on Debian packages
AWS instance provisioning system
User access management
L2TP/IPSec VPN frontend
Continous Integration platform based on Jenkins
Configuration management
On call rotation

Telenor JBoss System Administrator - Copenhagen, 2010-06 → 2012-04

Worked on Business Support Systems, managing thousands of customer. Primarily fixed/ADSL.

Manage JBoss server farm, configuration management
PL/SQL bug fixing
3rd level support
Deploying, monitoring and performing releases

MMMI, SDU Student Programmer - Odense, 2004-09 → 2010-03

Student job doing server rollout, network operations, version control access, CFengine

Education

M.Sc, Computer Science and Engineering, DTU 2007-09 → 2010-03

Thesis: Digital Radio Mondiale - A Software Decoder .

B.Sc., Computer Systems Engineering, SDU 2003-09 → 2007-06

Embedded work on Motorolla/Atmel chips

HTX, CEU Kolding2000-08 → 2003-06

Skills

Languages I know

English, Danish, (German in a pinch,) Go, Python, C, Shell, Ruby, SQL, Java

Technologies I've Worked with

AWS, debian packaging (dh_*), haproxy, puppet, chef, capistrano, Jenkins CI, Cloudformation/terraform, Nagios, MySQL, PostgreSql, freeradius, Git(hub), Varnish / Fastly, DNS (route53), RabbitMQ, Ubuntu/Debian

Hobbies

I really enjoy a good round of squash, inhaling compressed air under water, having an excellent Islay whisky and Open Source software. (Order arbirtrary.)