Greg Forties
Staff Systems Administrator, Linux Applications
Concord, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Forties is a seasoned Linux systems engineer with 12+ years designing, automating, and operating resilient web application platforms across cloud and data-center environments. Currently a Staff Systems Administrator at Pandora, he specializes in immutable infrastructure, CI/CD, configuration management and self-healing systems, with deep hands-on experience in AWS, VMware, MySQL, Django/Python, and automation tools like Chef and Jenkins. He has a track record of driving reliability at scale—from 100% uptime for clustered backends to automating deployments and alerting for gaming and media platforms—and has served as the sole DevOps operator for high-availability B2B services. Greg pairs technical leadership and developer-facing support, mentoring teams, running scrums, and translating feature needs into safe, repeatable release pipelines. Based in Concord, CA, he brings an engineer’s attention to detail plus a creative side: he writes and performs reggae-influenced music as one half of the Dubsayers. His background in both operations and deployment engineering gives him uncommon fluency across the full software lifecycle, from code to production.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at New York University
English, French
Github Skills (6)
bitbucket-server5
atlassian5
bitbucket3
java3
gnu1
highlight1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vinylplz/xpadder
Aug 2013 - Apr 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes in 6 years 8 months
vinylplz/resume
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 31 commits, 34 pushes in 3 days
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