Ricky Grassmuck

Attempting to automate all the things.

Skills

DevOps

Advanced
  • Gitlab CI/CD
  • Openstack
  • Digital Ocean
  • Vault
  • Consul

Job Orchestration

Advanced
  • Nomad
  • Containers
  • Docker
  • Podman
  • Packer

Configuration Management

Advanced
  • Ansible
  • Terraform

Backend Development

Intermediate
  • Go
  • Python

Work Experience (3)

Responsible for the creation, deployment and management of internal development tools and the platforms they run on.

Our team focuses on high availability of the services and platforms we manage by utilizing IaC tools like Terraform, Packer and Ansible.

To facilitate deployment of internal tooling, we leverage the full Hashistack which includes Vault, Consul and Nomad High-Availability clusters which are deployed using custom Terraform Modules onto an On-Prem Openstack cluster.

  • Designed and deployed a Vault, Consul, and Nomad stack for internal production use

  • Migrated the companies Product Development unit away from Bitbucket to Gitlab

  • Provided Gitlab CI/CD Pipeline support and workshops for developers to assist with migrating away from Jenkins

Provide direct support to cPanel customers including remote live server troubleshooting

Provide onsite and remote support to the UTMB Galveston campus

  • Troubleshooting network/vpn connectivity issues

  • Virtual Machine configurations(VirtualBox, Parallels, VmWare)

Certificates

HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate
HashiCorp
2021-01-05
HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate
HashiCorp
2021-01-05

Languages

English

Native Speaker

Interests

Open Source

IoT/Embedded Hacking

Gaming

Rocketry and Space Technology