Jeff Blaine
Lead Networking & Distributed Systems Engineer, Aka System Administrator, Aka DevOps -minded Eng.
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorJeff Blaine is a seasoned Lead Networking & Distributed Systems Engineer with 25 years of UNIX/Linux systems administration and 15 years of formal experience driving Solaris, Linux, OpenAFS, LDAP, and Kerberos environments. He prefers hands-on engineering over management and has architected large-scale, heterogeneous infrastructure at MITRE, automating configuration with CFEngine, Chef (authoring ~60 site cookbooks across ~1,140 nodes), and Puppet. A pragmatic DevOps-minded engineer, he writes production code in Python, Ruby, and C and has contributed tooling and UX improvements to the widely used Chef Infra project. His background includes low-level sysadmin work across SunOS, HP-UX, FreeBSD and networking with Cisco routers, giving him rare breadth across legacy and modern stacks. Based in Saint Petersburg, Florida, he seeks mission-driven organizations where his deep operational judgement and automation-first approach can reliably shape systems that matter. An understated strength is his long-term focus on system resilience and tooling ergonomics, notches of craft visible in both internal automation and open-source fixes.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
chef-client10
chef-solo10
automation10
automations10
devops10
ruby9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
infrastructure8
rspec8
solaris7
configuration-management7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Aug 2013 - Sep 2015
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 61 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on improving the Chef Infra project's tooling and user experience. They modified the `knife status` command to provide more flexible filtering options, and updated related tests. Furthermore, the user migrated the usage of deprecated command line arguments to their respective current arguments for a more uniform user experience. They also addressed package installation issues by improving the solaris package provider.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
jblaine/cookbook-sysmon
Sep 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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