Ian Clark
Director Of Engineering at DreamHost
San Dimas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Clark is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years building and operating large-scale networks, systems, and automation platforms, now directing engineering at DreamHost. He blends deep hands-on expertise in infrastructure-as-code (Ansible, Chef), networking at datacenter scale, and systems engineering with a track record of automating tens of thousands of Linux hosts and complex network gear. Ian has led major projects—including multi-site LDAP, OpenStack/Ceph, a 10k+ host Zabbix deployment, and on-prem/cloud DDoS protections—while enabling teams to deliver resilient, repeatable operations. An active open-source contributor and tinkerer, he pairs practical development skills (Python, Ruby, JS/TS) with operational rigor. Based in San Dimas, CA, he brings both practitioner-level technical depth and proven leadership in hybrid-cloud and large datacenter environments.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Management and Leadership, Master of Science - MS Management and Leadership at Western Governors UniversityCal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (74)
ubuntu10
tcp10
ansible9
switch9
ansible-role9
haproxy9
ssl9
tower9
bgp8
debian8
documented8
quagga8
ospf8
cookbook8
daemons7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
floored1585/ansible-haproxy
May 2018 - May 2021
Ansible role to set up (the latest version of) HAProxy in Ubuntu systems
Contributions:15 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years
load-balanceransibleset-uphaproxyansible-role
floored1585/SmartCart
Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:5 releases, 47 commits, 8 PRs in 5 years 9 months
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