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Damon Light

@damonlight

Site reliability and observability engineer at ScienceLogic who restored MariaDB with no data loss and improved monitoring health scores.

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At ScienceLogic, I resolved a service-impacting HA failover issue by tracing I/O faults to a DRBD backing-device block-size mismatch. I also authored a change MOP for a customer's HA+DR SSD storage refresh.

I restored a production MariaDB instance after InnoDB corruption, returning service in two hours with no data loss. I also led capacity planning and performance analysis across 14 enterprise monitoring environments, raising operational health scores 10–20%.

At Kyndryl, I served in the on-call rotation for multi-cloud infrastructure and restored service-impacting network, VPN, and server issues. I automated and maintained IBM Cloud IaaS virtual infrastructure with Ansible across 115 servers.

At IBM, I migrated eight applications and more than 120 Linux and Windows servers to a four-site IBM Cloud IaaS footprint in three months, with no major customer-facing outage. I also served in the on-call rotation and provided monitoring and event management architecture guidance.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Customer Solutions Architect

ScienceLogic

Nov 2023 - Aug 2026 (2 years 9 months)

Resolved service-impacting HA failover errors and restored a production MariaDB instance after InnoDB corruption. Led capacity planning and performance analysis across 14 enterprise monitoring environments, improving operational health scores by 10-20%.

HA DR DRBD Pacemaker MariaDB InnoDB SQL SNMP REST APIs Python Ansible Monitoring Alerting Capacity Planning Performance Analysis Arista EOS PowerPack Dynamic Applications

Certified Architect, Systems Management Infrastructure

Kyndryl

Sep 2021 - Oct 2023 (2 years 1 month)

Served in the on-call rotation for multi-cloud infrastructure, restoring service-impacting network, VPN, and server issues. Automated and maintained virtual infrastructure on IBM Cloud IaaS using Ansible, delivering consistent operational visibility across 115 servers.

On Call Operations Incident Response Linux Windows IBM Cloud Ansible Vyatta Juniper vSRX VPN Routing Firewall Administration Architectural Documentation

Chief Enterprise Architect, Systems Management Infrastructure

IBM

Jan 2006 - Sep 2021 (15 years 8 months)

Migrated 8 applications and 120+ Linux/Windows servers to a 4-site IBM Cloud IaaS footprint in 3 months with no major customer-facing outage. Served as Infrastructure and Monitoring/Event Management Architect and SME, setting monitoring strategy and mentoring engineers.