John Smith
Technical Director at Wargaming Seattle
Sylva, North Carolina, United States
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SeniorJohn Smith is a seasoned DevOps engineer and founder of Impressions 1st Consulting, delivering secure, scalable IT and web development services to local and national small businesses since 1999. Based in Sylva, North Carolina, he blends hands-on Linux/Windows system administration with modern config automation across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. His recent roles include Sr Ansible/DevOps Engineer at PwC and Sr Puppet Developer at PwC SDC, where he built standardized, global infrastructure with YAML-driven data, custom Python plugins, and automated playbooks. He brings a security-first mindset, including OS hardening per DISA STIG and policy-driven configuration management across multi-region deployments. With a practical, entrepreneurial approach, he bridges consulting, development, and IT services to turn complex requirements into reliable, auditable systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (22)
ruby9
homebrew8
linux8
mysql-proxy8
percona8
proxy7
puppet7
macos7
package-manager7
high-performance6
reverse-proxy6
mysql5
mojolicious5
mariadb4
meta4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
i1tech/puppet-acl
Dec 2016 - Feb 2022
A puppet module for POSIX ACLs
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 2 months
posixpuppet-moduleaclspuppet
i1tech/proxysql
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 26 days
gpl-licensemysqlproxygplperformance
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