Hank Beatty
Senior CDN Engineer at Cox Communications
Marietta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolHank Beatty is a Senior CDN Engineer based in Marietta, Georgia with 18+ years building and operating large-scale networked services. He manages a nationwide CDN using Apache Traffic Control and Apache Traffic Server and drives near-zero-touch operations through automation with AWX, CentOS kickstart and Dell iDRAC. Previously he architected carrier-grade ISP systems at Spacenet that supported 200k mailboxes and 1.7M messages per day, plus multi-server DNS and satellite network monitoring. An active contributor to Apache Traffic Control, he has improved Servers API documentation, fixed self-signed SSL issues, and updated deployment checks—work that blends backend troubleshooting with DevOps. Comfortable across HTTP/S, DNS, SMTP/IMAP, FTP, SSH and VPN stacks, he focuses on practical automation, clear documentation, and long-term production support.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Canyon High School New Braunfels, TX
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Github Skills (20)
api-doc10
apache210
congestion-control10
content-delivery-network10
cdn10
apache10
controls10
api10
traffic10
centos9
configuration-management9
documentations9
documentation9
bash8
perl8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficcontrol
Feb 2017 - Mar 2021
Apache Traffic Control is an Open Source implementation of a Content Delivery Network
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 66 commits, 80 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hank primarily contributed to documentation updates, particularly for the Servers API, enhancing its clarity and completeness. They also addressed a bug related to self-signed SSL certificates, indicating back-end system troubleshooting. Furthermore, the user implemented updates to a check script, which required code modifications and an understanding of build and deployment processes.
apachecontent-deliverycontent-delivery-networktraffictrafficcontrol
hbeatty/traffic_control
Jun 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:51 pushes, 63 branches in 5 years 2 months
cdntraffic
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