David Gersting
Professional Technologist 4 (Sr. Systems Engineer) at West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Gersting is a Senior Systems Engineer and Professional Technologist with 13 years of IT experience, currently leading systems engineering efforts at West Virginia University. He blends hands-on expertise in RHEL, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, and Splunk with strategic leadership—mentoring teams, shaping priorities, and driving large migrations such as a 400-server LDAP-to-AD move and a Splunk modernization embracing containerization. His background spans application development, Linux administration, QA, and automation, and he has a track record of building internal tools and automations that scale (e.g., automating 3,800 Adobe CC license requests and cutting brute-force attacks by 80%). Comfortable navigating technical and political landscapes, he pairs fiscal-minded planning with DevOps practices to modernize infrastructure. Based in Morgantown, WV, he’s a pragmatic generalist who learns quickly and prefers solving cross-disciplinary operational challenges over narrow specialization.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Information Technology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Information Technology at Fairmont State UniversityAssociate of Science - AS, Applied Science, Associate of Science - AS, Applied Science at Pierpont Community and Technical College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
docker9
golang9
go9
alfresco9
vagrant9
vms8
assemble8
moby8
container8
ecosystem8
digital-preservation8
virtualization7
ruby7
packer-plugin6
google-maps-api6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wvulibraries/engineAPI
Sep 2012 - Dec 2014
Contributions:473 commits in 2 years 3 months
dgersting/dotFiles
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:76 commits, 32 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 8 months
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