Dustin Coates
Linux System Administrator
Bolton, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Coates is a seasoned Linux System Administrator with 13 years of hands-on experience in managed cloud and enterprise hosting environments, currently at Rackspace Technology. He has progressed through roles from Windows administration and network engineering to DevOps and Linux-focused operations, giving him deep cross-platform expertise in virtualization, clustering, storage, and cloud migrations. Dustin has a strong track record supporting critical, customer-facing infrastructures—designing VMware environments, migrating Exchange to DAGs, and moving services from IIS to Apache for greater resilience. He excels at cross-team coordination during high-stakes incidents and has automated operational tasks with scripts and small applications that improved reliability and response times. Based in Bolton, North Carolina, he blends practical systems design with a long-term commitment to managed cloud reliability, and—unsurprisingly for someone with a Texas Forever GitHub bio—brings steady, loyal ownership to customer environments.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
ITI Technical CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ponchatoula High School
Github Skills (102)
experiences10
highlighting10
instantsearch10
javascript10
algolia10
jovo-framework10
voice10
search-engine10
facebook-messenger10
google-assistant10
alexa-skills-kit10
react-typescript10
voice-assistant10
vue10
voice-applications10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dustincoates/voice-applications
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:201 commits, 11 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 11 months
algolia/solutions-hiring-assignment
Nov 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 15 pushes in 10 months
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