Phillip Pollard
Sr. DevOps Engineer at BigRentz
Wooster, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Pollard is a senior DevOps engineer with 21 years of experience helping organizations design datacenters, virtualize infrastructure, and automate operational lifecycles to scale reliably. He has led large-scale infrastructure automation at Pure Storage—transforming hand-curated systems into automated hybrid-cloud platforms supporting 10k+ systems and millions of daily requests—and has consulted across enterprises to startups on AWS, Terraform, Puppet/Chef, and CI/CD. Phillip combines deep systems administration and programming skills with professional services experience in scoping, RFPs, and delivery, making him effective both as an engineer and as a client-facing technical lead. He currently applies this blend at BigRentz after recent roles supporting Elastic cloud products and running his own consulting practice. Outside work he balances technical curiosity with music and wilderness escapes, a reminder that his steady operational focus comes with creative and practical problem-solving. Based in Wooster, Ohio, he’s quietly maintained a long, hands-on career—rooted in automation and operational maturity—rather than seeking the spotlight.
21 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Media Arts and Design, BS Media Arts and Design at James Madison University
Github Skills (28)
search-engine10
java10
opensearch9
esxi9
restful9
elasticsearch9
vcenter8
hyper-v7
perl7
cpan7
api7
ucs6
twitter6
vmware6
zip4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bennie/perl-Acme-KeyboardMarathon
Aug 2016 - Nov 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 tags in 8 years 3 months
cpanperlacme
bennie/perl-VMware-API-LabManager
Jun 2015 - Sep 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 4 tags in 8 years 4 months
apivmwarecpanperl
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