Jeff Applewhite
Principal Consultant at Applewhite IT Consulting
Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Applewhite is a seasoned infrastructure and reliability leader with over 20 years of global experience and more than a decade in senior technical management, now serving as Senior Director at Backblaze after leading SRE and systems at StackPath. He has deep expertise in storage, virtualization, automation, and large-scale data center operations developed across roles at NetApp, Red Hat, and enterprise IT organizations. Known for delivering critical projects—data center migrations, PCI compliance, and high-scale HCI and object-storage solutions—he blends hands-on engineering with product and go-to-market sensibilities. Jeff’s background in both technical marketing and product ownership gives him a rare ability to translate complex storage technologies into customer-driven platforms. Based in Durham, NC, he combines operational rigor with a history of building and scaling global SRE teams and infrastructure programs.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS Psychology, BS Psychology at Duke University
Github Skills (49)
python10
ansible9
automation9
ssh9
sinatra8
ip-address7
network-configuration7
frontend6
test-suite6
openshift6
continuous-integration6
network-visualization6
neumorphism5
devops5
paas5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
japplewhite/ansible-ec2-wordpress
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Deploy fresh instance of Wordpress on EC2 using Ansible playbook
Contributions:8 pushes in 10 days
ec2devopswordpressansibleansible-playbook
japplewhite/hadoop-ansible
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Install hadoop cluster with ansible
Contributions:8 pushes in 9 days
hadoopclusteransiblehadoop-cluster
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