Colby Olson
Area | Portland, OR |
Phone | 408 666 1581 |
hi@colbyolson.com | |
Homepage | https://colbyolson.com |
GitHub | https://github.com/colby |
Work experience
- Copious Inc, Portland, OR 2013-active
Built and maintained large scale e-commerce web applications in both PHP/Magento and Ruby/RoR.
Developed processes around releases and deployments that increased stability, accountability, and team coordination.
Developed and maintained tooling that empowered developers, improved communication, and better leveraged infrastructure.
- Bay Area Surgical Management, Santa Clara, CA 2009-2013
Systems Administrator and lead of three-member support team.
Provided multi-OS installations, upgrades, backup and disaster recovery, monitoring, user account setup, and (W)LAN/WAN network and security administration.
Scaled infrastructure from 3 locations and 30 users to 16 locations and more than 300 users.
- FinalConnect, San Jose, CA 2007-2009
Installed and maintained computer systems while providing troubleshooting services.
Assisted in documentation of troubleshooting and preparing technical logs.
Ensured timely repair of equipment of end user workstations, software applications, and peripheral devices.
Skills
- Proficient with CLI utilities, shell scripting, and Chef
- Comfortable with Ruby and PHP
- Comfortable with system administration
- OSX
- Debian
- RHEL