Summary
Phillip Lessley is a seasoned systems engineer and Sr. Log Windows System Administrator with decades-long hands-on experience across datacenter, hosting, and enterprise environments. He has designed and operated large VMware clusters, multi-vendor storage arrays, OpenStack/Stackato platforms, and automated SRE toolchains using Puppet, Ansible, Graylog, and Grafana. Phillip excels at planning and executing complex system deployments—networking, virtualization, sizing and PKI—while driving observability and logging initiatives that improve uptime and troubleshooting. He’s supported multi-site, geo-distributed infrastructures and migrations for high-profile clients, bringing practical knowledge from both small hosting shops and Fortune-class enterprises. A community-minded problem-solver, he contributes extensively on Spiceworks and enjoys building tooling and documentation to make operations repeatable. Based in Vancouver, Washington, Phillip pairs old-school troubleshooting instincts with modern automation to keep critical systems reliable at scale.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Paso Robles
English