Hank Beatty
Senior CDN Engineer at Cox Communications
Marietta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolHank Beatty is a Senior CDN Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and automating carrier-grade network and content delivery systems. Based in Marietta, GA, he has spent the last decade managing a nationwide CDN at Cox Communications using Apache Traffic Control and Traffic Server, Ansible, AWX, and near zero-touch hardware provisioning with Dell iDRAC and CentOS kickstarts. Earlier roles show deep operational breadth—building ISP-grade email and DNS platforms, commercial monitoring solutions sold internationally, and capacity-planned systems handling millions of messages per day. He contributes to the Apache Traffic Control project, improving Servers API docs and fixing backend issues like self-signed SSL handling, reflecting practical open-source impact. Known for pragmatic automation and systems integration, Hank blends low-level networking expertise with scalable DevOps practices to keep large user bases reliably online.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Canyon High School New Braunfels, TX
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Github Skills (18)
congestion-control10
apidoc10
content-delivery-network10
cdn10
apache10
controls10
api10
traffic10
centos9
configuration-management9
documentation9
bash8
perl8
go7
hash6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficcontrol
Feb 2017 - Mar 2021
Apache Traffic Control is an Open Source implementation of a Content Delivery Network
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 66 commits, 80 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hank primarily contributed to documentation updates, particularly for the Servers API, enhancing its clarity and completeness. They also addressed a bug related to self-signed SSL certificates, indicating back-end system troubleshooting. Furthermore, the user implemented updates to a check script, which required code modifications and an understanding of build and deployment processes.
apachecontent-deliverycontent-delivery-networktraffictrafficcontrol
hbeatty/traffic_control
Jun 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:51 pushes, 63 branches in 5 years 2 months
cdntraffic
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