Michael Arnold
Principal Systems Engineer at EXL
Bridgeport, West Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Arnold is a Principal Systems Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and hardening cloud and Unix-based infrastructures across AWS, Azure, and Hadoop ecosystems. He leads infrastructure engineering engagements, specializing in environment design, automation, and container image optimization with a demonstrated focus on security (zero CVEs in current hardening efforts). A former Unix grid wrangler and long-time Hadoop infrastructure expert, he brings deep systems-level knowledge from Solaris, AIX, and Linux environments to complex cloud migrations and platform builds. Michael pairs practical automation skills with consulting experience across financial, education, and services sectors, delivering repeatable, auditable infrastructure for clients. Based in Bridgeport, West Virginia, he blends veteran operations discipline (including prior tactical communications work in the U.S. Army) with a continuous-improvement mindset. Colleagues know him as a Unix and automation nerd who turns operational complexity into streamlined, secure platforms.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Syracuse University
Github Skills (174)
hortonworks10
bash10
hadoop10
terraform10
dhcp10
terraform-module10
operating-system10
altium-designer10
puppet10
cloudera-manager10
net-snmp10
smoke-test10
azure10
shell10
cloudera10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
razorsedge/oscar-cloudera
Feb 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:60 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
teamclairvoyant/apache-airflow-cloudera-parcel
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Parcel for Apache Airflow
Contributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 7 months
airflowapache-airflowclouderaparcel
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