Damian Connolly is an accomplished IT professional with extensive experience in system automation and continuous improvement. He is a Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator with expertise in various Linux flavors, including Red Hat, CentOS, Amazon Linux, Fedora, and Ubuntu. Damian has designed cost-effective cloud-based solutions to scale, secure, and capacity plan legacy applications, without requiring application redevelopment. He has also embraced DevOps practices, having experience in Puppet, Ansible, Docker, Git, and Python. Damian has worked with various technologies, including F5 BigIP products, Apache, Nginx, JBoss, Weblogic, Tomcat, and clustered data technologies, including Coherence, JGroups, and Infinispan. He also has experience with MySQL/MariaDB, ElasticSearch, and Oracle databases. Damian's most recent project involved migrating legacy platforms to new technology, converting all existing applications to Docker containers, and deploying them to an on-prem Kubernetes environment, resulting in a significant reduction in support hours and callouts.<br><br>