Bill Riner
Senior System Administrator
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolBill Riner is a seasoned Senior System Administrator with over two decades in IT and more than a decade focused on Linux-based research computing, virtualization, and HPC operations. At Vanderbilt he leads research computing for structural biology and genomics, managing clusters, GPFS/DORS storage, and deploying automation with Ansible, ZFS backups, and Docker to scale complex environments. His background includes building and tuning ROCKS/Slurm clusters and driving migrations from legacy services like NIS to LDAP, reflecting a blend of deep systems engineering and practical modernization. Bill’s career spans academia, aerospace, and web operations where he also designed cloud infrastructures on AWS, implemented enterprise IAM/LastPass, and created monitoring and inventory systems—skills that make him equally comfortable with hardware-level performance tuning and higher-level orchestration. A mechanical engineering master’s graduate, he brings an analytical, physics-rooted approach to solving infrastructure challenges and a history of translating research needs into reliable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of Tennessee Space InstituteBachelor's degree, Engineering Science and Mechanics, Bachelor's degree, Engineering Science and Mechanics at Tennessee Technological UniversityGithub contributions (5)
billriner/vagrant-rt
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:47 commits, 54 pushes, 1 issue in 10 months
billriner/yb-leaderboard
Nov 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 9 months
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