Summary
Sidney Harrell is a Senior Systems Administrator with 14 years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and supporting high-availability web hosting and infrastructure across Linux, OpenStack, Docker, HAProxy, Varnish, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, and related tooling. Based in Harpers Ferry, WV and servicing the Dulles/DC corridor, he excels at incident response, large-scale server administration (experience with 1700+ servers), WordPress/Drupal support and migrations, and pragmatic DevOps automation using Bash, git, and configuration tools. His background spans developer support, custom PHP work (including gateway modules and xdebug debugging), networking and firewall operations, and telecommunications troubleshooting—giving him rare full-stack operational empathy. Flexible and challenge-driven, he pairs farm-born practical problem solving with a preference for collaborative, mission-focused teams.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at George Mason University
Ukrainian