Jay Pike
Manager Of UNIX Sustaining Engineering at Pfizer (formerly Wyeth Pharmaceuticals)
Portage, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Pike is a seasoned Unix/Linux engineering manager with over a decade of enterprise experience designing, releasing, and sustaining complex Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX environments. At Pfizer he leads UNIX sustaining engineering, acting as the escalation endpoint for vendor issues while driving lifecycle processes for OS builds, patch management, and high-availability storage integrations. He combines deep kernel and systems programming expertise (C/C++, DTrace, MDB/GDB, SystemTap) with hands-on platform work—deploying jumpstart/wanboot and kickstart images, LVM/Veritas storage, and modern virtualization technologies like Zones and LDOMs. Beyond IT, Jay brings disciplined operational experience as a firefighter, nationally licensed EMT and Extra Class amateur radio operator, skills that inform his calm, methodical approach to incident response and capacity planning. He also applies a creative eye to life outside engineering as the owner of a long-running photography business, demonstrating a balance of technical depth and client-facing project delivery.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Western Michigan University
Github Skills (3)
hardware8
linux7
database2
Github contributions (4)
cptpike/linuxhardwareguide
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 release, 726 commits, 426 pushes in 1 year 5 months
linuxhardware
cptpike/lhg_scanner
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
scanlinuxdatabasehardwarescan-tool
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