Clint Allen
Senior Linux Administrator
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorClint Allen is a Senior Linux Administrator and Python-savvy Unix systems veteran with over two decades in IT and a decade of focused experience modernizing infrastructure for enterprise environments. He specializes in automating complex system builds and integrations—replacing legacy orchestration with SaltStack, building API-driven tooling for SAN/LUN management, and containerizing workloads with Azure DevOps, Artifactory, and Kubernetes. Clint has a strong track record of reducing operational overhead and errors through custom Python modules and pipeline automation, and he’s mentored junior engineers while providing global 24/7 support. Comfortable working with cross-functional teams, he pairs low-level sysadmin depth (Solaris, LDOMs, SANs, networking) with modern DevOps practices to drive measurable efficiency gains. Outside work he’s an avid gamer, which he credits for keeping his focus on practical, user-centered solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
11reputation
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Github Skills (31)
docker10
zeromq10
python10
configuration-management10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
iot10
automation10
infrastructure10
scale10
saltstack10
infrastructure-as-code10
salt10
remote-execution10
event-stream10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
clallen/salt-orch-rac
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:80 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
clallen/ansible-modules-core
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
ansibleshipansible-modules
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