Ethan Dicks
Senior Consultant at Software Results Enterprises
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Dicks is a Senior Consultant based in Columbus, Ohio with 13 years of professional experience building and automating Linux and UNIX infrastructure across enterprise and research environments. At Red Hat he specializes in Ansible-driven automation, deploying HA/DR Ansible Tower clusters and crafting custom roles that manage servers, routers, and firewalls for medium to large estates. His background spans deep systems work—from RedHat, Ubuntu, Solaris and HP-UX to networking with Cisco and TCP/IP—combined with hands-on C/C++ and Perl scripting to solve complex operational problems. He has a proven track record migrating datacenters, modernizing stacks with Docker, OpenStack and cloud services, and improving reliability through monitoring and orchestration. Unusually for an infrastructure expert, he also teaches electronics and maker skills locally and has maintained critical systems in extreme conditions (supporting IceCube at the South Pole), highlighting practical troubleshooting and a broad hardware-to-software skill set.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Charles Preparatory High SchoolElizabethan History and Literature, Elizabethan History and Literature at University of OxfordIndianola AlternativeBA, History, BA, History at The Ohio State University
English, Greek
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
vintage10
lcd10
controlling10
client-server10
scripting9
linux9
retrocomputing9
virtual-memory9
ddt9
rollback9
midas9
operating-system8
incompatible-timesharing-system8
maclisp8
teco8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ethandicks/lcdproc
Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
Client/server suite for controlling a wide variety of LCD devices
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years
client-serverlcdlinuxcontrollingvariety
ethandicks/basic-computer-games
Oct 2022 - Dec 2024
An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages. See https://coding-horror.github.io/basic-computer-games/
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
memoryscriptinggamegamesmemory-safe
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