Theo Chaojareon

About Theo Chaojareon

I manage a department of technical cloud/software/infrastructure engineers that develop R&D solutions for the federal government. I also lead projects and tasks as well as develop Cloud, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code solutions for developer, Ops, and Data Science/Analyst/Engineering teams. Experience in Federal Government, Higher Education, Non-Profit, and Commercial industries.What I am working on or know in a nutshell:* Managing a department of consulting technical cloud, software, DevOps, and systems engineers.* Leading and managing a diverse technical team to task and project completion* Recruiting and building diverse technical teams* Mentoring new and experienced cloud/devops/software/data engineers and data scientist/analysts* Technical advising externally and internally to MITRE and our sponsors * Public Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)* DevOps and CI/CD (eg, Jenkins, Gitlab-CI)* Data Center Virtualization (VMWare vSphere, ESXi, KVM/QEMU/LibVirt)* Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform, Cloudformation, ARM)* Virtualization Tools (Packer, Vagrant)* Scripting (Bash/Powershell/Perl/Python)* Version Control/Source Code Management (GIT, Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket)* Systems Engineering/Administration (Ubuntu/Debian, CentOS/Red Hat)* Containers and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift)* Directories (LDAP, AD)* Identity and Access Management* Cloud Applications (G-Suite, O365)* FISMA/FEDRAMP compliance* 800-53/800-171 compliance* Security and Infrastructure Testing (Inspec, OSCAP)* IT Security * Networking and Network Automation (Cisco, Juniper, Arista)* Web servers and web applications (Nginx, Apache, Wordpress)* Databases Management (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL)* ITIL v3 Expert

Experience

1. Department Manager, Advanced Technical Computing

   MITRE

   Oct 2023 — Present · McLean, VA, US

   Department Manager for the Advanced Technical Computing Department which is made up of highly skilled consulting engineers that focus on work related to Cloud, DevOps, Software Development, and more. I additionally have and continue to project and task lead on multiple high profile AI/ML, Cryptocurrency, Cyber Security, Data Analytics, Cloud, DevOps, and Infrastructure projects for the federal government.

Education

• The George Washington University - School of Engineering & Applied Science

  MS, Computer Science

  2000 — 2002

• The George Washington University - School of Engineering & Applied Science

  BS, Computer Engineering

  1994 — 2000

Skills

• Linux System Administration
• Databases
• Disaster Recovery
• Information Security
• Linux
• Leadership
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Nginx
• Integration
• Security
• Enterprise Architecture
• Itil
• Wordpress
• Business Analysis
• IT Strategy
• Computer Security
• System Administration
• IT Management
• Perl
• Networking
• Python