Todd Mortensen
Director, Data Services
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Mortensen is a seasoned Director of Data Services with over two decades of Unix systems and MySQL expertise, now leading engineering teams at CrowdStrike to design and operate highly available, large-scale database platforms. He combines deep hands-on experience across FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX with production-grade knowledge of MySQL, Elasticsearch, Cassandra and MongoDB to solve performance, monitoring and data protection challenges. Todd’s background spans architecture, on-call operations, and DR/HA engineering at scale—he built and supported 250+ database machines and engineered global backup and cluster solutions. As an active DevOps contributor, he has kept community tooling current by updating the sous-chefs/elasticsearch cookbook across multiple major Elasticsearch releases. Based in Tempe, Arizona, he pairs pragmatic systems practice with a security-first mindset developed through years of PCI and enterprise compliance work. Colleagues rely on him for steady leadership during incident response and for translating complex infrastructure needs into operational, auditable systems.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Various Trade Classes
Github Skills (13)
chef-client10
elasticsearch10
chef-solo10
elasticsearchquery10
automations10
automation10
cookbook10
automation-testing10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
integration-testing9
ruby8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/elasticsearch
Mar 2017 - Aug 2019
Development repository for the elasticsearch cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:43 commits, 43 PRs, 12 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Todd primarily contributed by updating the Elasticsearch version supported by the cookbook. They consistently modified the `attributes/default.rb`, `libraries/resource_install.rb`, and `test/integration/helpers/serverspec/install_examples.rb` files to reflect the new Elasticsearch versions, checksums, and default values. These changes included adding support for multiple Elasticsearch versions across the 5.x and 6.x, and 7.x lines, showcasing a focus on keeping the cookbook compatible with the latest releases.
cookbookelasticsearchchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
tmortensen/cookbook-elasticsearch
Mar 2017 - Dec 2020
Chef cookbook for Elasticsearch
Contributions:1 PR, 27 pushes, 70 branches in 3 years 9 months
cookbookelasticelasticsearchchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
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