Alan Youngblood
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlan Youngblood is a versatile IT leader and hands-on systems engineer with nine years of professional experience and a decade in game development, currently serving as Contracting IT Director and running Oak City IT in Raleigh. He designs and manages secure, scalable infrastructure—firewalls (Juniper, SRX), UniFi networks, VMware, cloud AWS services, and automated imaging/backup systems—while also delivering end-user support and devops for small to mid-sized organizations. His background spans Windows, Linux, macOS, Cisco, Juniper, VoIP (3CX/Avaya), and development skills in C#, web ops, and game/tool creation, enabling him to bridge ops, development, and creative teams. Clients value his ability to synthesize disparate disciplines—networking, A/V streaming, IoT, and web backend devops—into reliable operational solutions. He trains and leads support teams and has practical experience automating deployments with Ansible, Chocolatey, Project FOG, and clonezilla to reduce errors and deployment time. Outside traditional IT work he develops indie iOS apps and games, reflecting a persistent focus on user experience and cross-disciplinary problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Communication Media, Art + Design, BA, Communication Media, Art + Design at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (9)
file-transfer9
kvm8
remote-control8
local-network8
internet7
remote-desktop6
desktop5
monitoring5
linux1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apyoungblood/godot_3.1_cpi
Mar 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
apyoungblood/CloseHaul
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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