Ken Shaffer
IBM Gold Consultant 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Edgewater, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolKen Shaffer is a seasoned database and Unix/Linux systems expert with over three decades of hands-on experience and a decade formally documented in recent roles, currently recognized as an IBM Gold Consultant and long-standing IBM Champion. He specializes in DB2 architecture and administration, high-availability and disaster recovery (PowerHA, HADR), large-scale data warehousing (DPF/BLU) and performance tuning, having operated as sole DBA on mission-critical, high-throughput government systems. Comfortable across legacy and modern stacks, Ken pairs deep SQL and DB2 expertise with scripting and development skills in Perl, C, Python and shell to automate complex operations and ETL flows. His background includes designing and deploying HA clusters, multi-TB warehouses, and bespoke purge/data-retention strategies under strict uptime requirements. Based in Edgewater, MD, he continues consulting while exploring Linux, Docker and AWS tooling from a retired software engineer’s perspective, blending veteran pragmatism with current cloud-native practices. Notably, his career spans both infrastructure leadership and hands-on programming dating back to telecom and aerospace systems, giving him rare cross-domain depth.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
English
Github Skills (114)
linux9
flask-extensions9
browser8
stylebot8
windows8
endpoint8
macos8
appearance8
golang7
k8s7
flask7
autofocus7
api7
python7
cli7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
strobelight/Network-MultiTool
May 2021 - Apr 2023
Multi-arch multitool for container network troubleshooting.
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
containerstroubleshootingmultitooldockermulti-arch
strobelight/build_python
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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