David F.

David Fine is a DevOps engineer located in the San Francisco area with a strong background in Linux systems orchestration, scalability, service architecture, and internal tools development. He is dedicated to utilizing Open Source Software in his work to make a positive impact on society. David's expertise includes Linux Server Automation, Git/Jenkins workflows, configuration management using Chef/Ansible/Terraform, Systems Architecture, and Authentication & Access Control.

David has experience in utilizing tools like Docker, Jenkins, Python, and various AWS services. He is proficient in Nagios and Graphite Monitoring, Apache and Nginx web servers, Cloudera Hadoop, PfSense, and OpenWRT. David has outgrown MS Active Directory & Exchange, Firewalls & Routing technologies, Cisco devices, VPNs, and Desktop support for OSX & Win7.

Education-wise, David studied Engineering at City College of San Francisco and Computer Science at Santa Rosa Junior College. Throughout his career, he has held various roles such as Owner at Ampersand Opportunity Fund, Senior DevOps SRE at Hypothes.is, System Engineer at Snowflake Computing, Systems Operations at BitTorrent, IT Administrator at Edmodo, Consultant at Freelance Computer Services, and IT Manager at Rainforest Action Network.