Ken Bolingbroke
Senior Infrastructure Engineer @Yahoo
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Infrastructure Engineer @Yahoo
I started working at Yahoo with a small team that very efficiently kept over 100k servers across the world running through hardware failures and OS updates. From there, I transitioned to a global infrastructure team, where I became responsible for the service that imaged every server world-wide for every team, and eventually also the internally developed service that automatically configured every server with the appropriate user access and other required configurations. I also became the primary owner of the global time service, so when the original equipment went EOL, I evaluated and sourced new hardware replacements for those and deployed them globally, across the U.S, Asia, and Europe. Years later, when that new hardware also went EOL, I again evaluated the options and picked a new hardware vendor and then worked with each of our global site operations teams to deploy them across the U.S, Asia, and Europe again. I have primary responsibility for hundreds of servers in dozens of sites across the entire world. I have secondary responsibility for thousands more of servers. This role has required me to update all of these services across various major versions of the Linux OS they run on, and also, numerous security updates for various package dependencies across hundreds of servers. And since every other team that has any servers in any of our datacenters, colos, or offices, depend on the services I run, I continuously collaborate with all of these teams on any issues they have with the services I\'m responsible for. I\'ve continued keeping these services running across numerous abrupt management changes and employee turnover, where I became the last person with institutional and historical knowledge of the the services I kept running.
EDUCATION
Utah State University
Computer Science
California State University, Northridge
Electrical Engineering
Ohlone College
Biology
SKILLS
ABOUT KEN BOLINGBROKE
I\'ve primarily been a UNIX sysadmin under a variety of titles. I\'m a big fan of Open…
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