Robert Fairburn
Infrastructure Engineer at Fleet Device Management
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Fairburn is an experienced Infrastructure Engineer with over a decade of hands-on systems and automation experience across Linux and Windows environments, currently supporting Fleet Device Management. He excels at scripting and tooling—what he jokingly calls "bash-fu" and "awk-jitsu"—to automate operational workflows, improve reliability, and reduce toil for both Fortune 500 clients and small businesses. His background spans system architecture, clustering, CI/CD and configuration management, and he has practical DevOps experience contributing infrastructure and load-testing automation to the popular open-source Fleet project. Based in the Kansas City area, he brings a pragmatic focus on client needs and a track record of designing maintainable, production-ready systems that scale.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (20)
bash10
terraform10
terraformer10
aws10
devops10
automation9
automations9
infrastructure9
docker8
dockers8
gitops6
elasticsearch-api5
ansible-galaxy5
elasticsearch5
kubernetes-pods5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fleetdm/fleet
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Open-source platform for IT, security, and infrastructure teams. (Linux, macOS, Chrome, Windows, cloud, data center)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:570 reviews, 27 commits, 301 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focuses on infrastructure and automation tasks related to load testing and sandbox environments. Their contributions involve scripting and configuration updates for AWS services, including EC2, ECS, and ECR, utilizing tools like Terraform and bash scripts. They improved load testing by incorporating Cloudwatch stubs and modifying ElasticSearch configuration. Additionally, the user streamlined sandbox management through scripts to update, provision, and clean up instances, including making adjustments to the number of queued instances.
operating-systemsriskcloud-securitytelemetryworkstations
rfairburn/salt-nagios-formula
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:210 commits in 29 days
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