Travis Estill

Street Address

5003 Walzem Rd PMB 615

City, State and ZIP code

San Antonio, TX 78218

Phone

(210) -remove- 802-remove--1232

E-mail

travisce@-remove-gmail.com

Objective

Maintain, document, and improve complex Linux-based system environments for businesses.

Education/Certifications

• Smithson Valley High School [2006] (Spring Branch, TX)
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (ID: 120-208-178)
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (ID: 120-208-178)
• Zend PHP Certification (ID: ZEND006475)

Experience

• Rackspace Hosting (rackspace.com)

  Linux Operations Engineer (January 2010–Present)

  Working as a Linux Operations Engineer with the role of managing various systems in a large-scale, virtualized MySQL database environment. Other roles have included management of Apache/PHP webserver clusters, Redis HA clusters, Stingray/Zeus and HAProxy load balancers, Postfix mail servers, and others.

• San Antonio Computer Doctor (sacdr.com)

  Web Developer (July 2009–December 2009)

  Contracted for this PC repair and web development company. Migrated 60 client websites to this company’s IIS web server from another server running Apache. This required reworking and debugging numerous PHP applications. The configuration on the new server was improved for security and stability, and new server extensions were installed to work with these applications.

• myARCworld

  Web Developer (November 2008–May 2009)

  Worked full-time for this web development and credit card processing firm. Developed and maintained client websites and internal software solutions for the company. Worked on-site as the company’s computer tech maintaining workstations and their in-house servers.

• Contracting

  • CompanyApparelSafetyItems.com (October 2008)

  • CreativeLink.com (September 2008–October 2008)

  • FirecatStudio.com (June 2008–July 2008)

  • ConsignmentPal.com (May 2008–November 2008)

  • StraughanPhoto.com (March 2008)

  • Echo Design Solutions (echods.com) (March 2008)

  • SmallPlanetGuide.com (August 2006–April 2007)

Skills

Extensive knowledge of Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and CentOS), Apache, MySQL (including MariaDB and Percona), MySQL HA (MHA), PHP, HTML/CSS/JS, Bash, HAProxy, Stingray LB, Postfix, RabbitMQ, and OpenVZ.

Working knowledge of Python, Perl, Git/Github, Redis, Ansible, Puppet, Sensu/Uchiwa, Zenoss, Cobbler, and IIS.