David Fuentes
Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Fuentes is a Senior Linux Systems Administrator with a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining high-availability Linux infrastructure across higher education and hosting environments. Based in Durham, NC, he specializes in automation, Infrastructure as Code, and operational efficiency—regularly using tools like Puppet, Ansible, Bash, VMware, and AWS to streamline provisioning and monitoring. His background spans SRE duties, incident management, and Level 4 troubleshooting at scale, with a proven track record of reducing toil by authoring command-line tools and automation for support teams. A former Marine Corps technician, he brings disciplined process, inventory rigor, and leadership under pressure to civilian ops and on-call rotations. Currently supporting production Linux fleets at the University of Chicago, he pairs deep systems expertise with a pragmatic focus on observability and uptime. Notably, he combines customer-facing support experience with SRE practices, making him equally effective solving end-user outages and architecting long-term reliability.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate in Applied Science, Information Technology, Associate in Applied Science, Information Technology at Wake Technical Community CollegeHigh School Diploma, General Studies, High School Diploma, General Studies at Valencia High SchoolGeneral Studies, General Studies at College of the CanyonsInformation Technology, Information Technology at Coastline Community College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (88)
samsung-smart-tv10
grav-plugin10
grav10
samsung10
markdown9
nette9
yaml9
flat-file9
wiki-engine9
silverstripe9
composer9
smarty9
extensible9
php9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dfuentes87/cmsver.sh
Nov 2016 - Dec 2020
Find out-of-date CMS installs on a server.
Contributions:49 commits, 33 PRs, 48 pushes in 4 years 1 month
cmscockpitphpsummernote
dfuentes87/rpi_scripts
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
Scripts for setting up a Raspberry Pi with Pi-hole and Ubiquiti UniFi Controller
Contributions:19 commits, 14 PRs, 20 pushes in 6 months
ubiquitiraspberry-picontrollersettingubiquiti-unifi-controller
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