Stephen Gurnick
Cloud Solutions Architect at UC Santa Barbara
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Gurnick is a Cloud Solutions Architect and seasoned systems engineer with 11+ years designing and operating resilient Linux-based infrastructure for academic and media environments. He led DevOps cultural adoption at UCLA Library, putting system configurations into git, standardizing Ansible automation, and architecting the institutional repository and disaster recovery strategies that protect digital collections. Comfortable across on-prem HP hardware, VMware virtualization, and AWS cloud services, he combines deep Red Hat Enterprise Linux expertise with hands-on experience in monitoring (Nagios), CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), and Atlassian tooling. A pragmatic team leader and communicator, he bridges developers and operations to streamline deployment workflows and documentation. Outside work he champions crisis support, enjoys trail running and hiking, and is a private pilot—traits that reflect his calm, disciplined approach to incident response and systems reliability.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.) Transfer Studies, Associate of Arts (A.A.) Transfer Studies at Glendale Community CollegeUniversity of California Santa Cruz
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Github Skills (86)
pandora10
wave10
atlassian10
test-server10
ansible10
transcoding9
httpd9
ansible-role9
jira9
filesystem9
media-library9
confluence9
preserve8
database8
data-repository8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
UCLALibrary/ansible_uclalib_role_webservices
Nov 2016 - Mar 2020
Ansible role to deploy Library Web Services tomcat webapps
Contributions:10 PRs, 8 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 4 months
ansible-roletomcatwebservice
UCLALibrary/drupal_admin_scripts
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
Scripts that run on the main Library website servers to copy code/content and promote code from one environment to another
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 10 months
promotelibrary-website
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