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Michael Best

@michaelbest

Software engineer with strong communication skills and adaptable to new frameworks and languages.

Background as a systems administrator, senior programmer, and consultant. I'm an avid user of Open Source and Linux and adept at designing and implementing efficient and effective solutions using open source tools and technologies. I have a background in offering clients and team members technical support and direction. Good communication and problem-solving abilities.

Experience

Software and Systems

TecKnoQuest

Feb 2005 - Dec 2022 (17 years 10 months)

Involved in a number of projects, physical server infrastructure with Firewall, DNS, E-mail, Web and Database servers. Rebuilt application from Zope to Django in Python. Transitioned infrastructure from physical to virtual servers using Proxmox.

Python AWS PostgreSQL Software Engineering Systems Administration

Senior Programmer

Tree Time Services

Feb 2016 - Aug 2022 (6 years 6 months)

CI/CD using Bitbucket pipelines, Docker, and Deployer for automated deployment. Unit, integration, and E2E testing with PHPUnit and Codeception, including integration with Lambdatest. Installed a kiosk system with barcode scanners and page scanning to S3 on Raspberry Pi devices running Ubuntu. Migrated technology stack from Windows to Linux.

PHP Bootstrap Software Engineering Unit Testing

Consulting

Arctic Linux

Feb 2005 - Feb 2016 (11 years)

Building custom software applications, websites and hosting.
Designing and maintaining high availability cluster for an e-commerce website serving tens of thousands of simultaneous requests for a weekly deal promotion. Created website skin and templates.
Deploying and managing co-located servers.
Administering a private Gitlab server for internal, partner, and client projects.

AWS Python Linux Software Engineering Systems Administration