Kelly Youngblood
Linus Systems Administrator
Yorktown, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelly Youngblood is a seasoned Linux systems administrator with nine years of focused experience managing large-scale LAMP fleets and ensuring high-availability infrastructure. Based in Yorktown, Virginia, Kelly has repeatedly served as the final escalation point for multi-server incidents at major hosting providers, pairing deep hardware and networking know-how with automation using Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack and Python. He has extensive hands-on experience in monitoring and observability (Zabbix, CheckMK), patch enforcement, data migrations and proactive vulnerability remediation, and has designed predictive hardware failure checks. Comfortable moving between datacenter-level hardware work and scripting-driven orchestration, Kelly combines operational rigor with a knack for practical tooling improvements and mentoring junior admins.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Computer Science, AAS, Computer Science at Thomas Nelson Community College
Github Skills (38)
discord10
powerdns10
dnssec10
dns10
backpack9
cpp9
android8
linux8
windows8
infrastructure7
tooltips7
emulation7
python7
editable6
iot6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
klyoungblood/StarfinderSheets
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
HTML character and ship sheets for Paizo's Starfinder RPG
Contributions:37 commits, 10 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 1 month
gamepaizoshipeditablerpg
klyoungblood/StarfinderTools
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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