Gearl Brace
Systems Engineer at Asymmetric Research
Rancho Mirage, California, United States
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Top SchoolGearl Brace is a seasoned systems engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience designing, managing, and migrating enterprise SAN/NAS storage and mixed Unix/Windows environments. He has deep NetApp expertise, proven across professional services, large-scale managed services, and in-house roles supporting R&D and production reliability at companies like 10X Genomics and Jump Trading. Comfortable across on-prem and cloud platforms, he combines storage architecture, Linux administration, backup and data protection, and automation (Ansible, Bash/Python) to deliver reliable infrastructure and migrations. Gearl has led integrations—Active Directory consolidation, Okta TOTP for sudo, NetApp alerting tied into ServiceNow—and built operational frameworks aligned with ITIL and PCI requirements. Based in Rancho Mirage, CA, he currently focuses on systems engineering work and is not entertaining opportunities, reflecting a pragmatic, steady operator who prefers improving reliability over chasing buzzwords. An early Navy avionics technician, he brings disciplined troubleshooting and a long record of operational ownership to high-stakes environments.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzAssociate of Arts (AA) Psychology, Associate of Arts (AA) Psychology at Cabrillo College
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (71)
solana10
crypto9
ansible9
anchor9
python9
ssh9
cryptocurrency9
wormhole9
blockchain9
solidity8
monitoring8
dashboard8
interoperability8
blockchain-network8
reference-implementation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gearlbrace/datasciencecoursera
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Qualys-Public/Cloud_Agent_Ansible
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Deploy Cloud Agent via Ansible-Playbook in Linux instances in AWS Cloud
Contributions:1 PR in 1 day
instancesgcpaws-cloudagentansible
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