Will Foster
Senior Principal Systems Engineer And DevOps Lead at Red Hat
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Foster is a Senior Principal Systems Engineer and DevOps lead with 12+ years of experience architecting, automating, and operating large-scale Linux and BSD infrastructure for mission-critical 24x7 environments. At Red Hat he drives Performance & Scale R&D and leads projects like QUADS and Badfish to automate bare-metal datacenter and testbed provisioning, building the tooling that vets products at production scale. A pragmatic SRE/DevOps practitioner, he focuses on packaging, configuration management and continuous improvement to let small teams manage complex systems efficiently. His open-source work includes automating ELK/EFK logging stacks and integrating containerized OpenStack logs, reflecting a hands-on approach to observability and data collection. Based in Ireland, he combines deep systems and storage expertise with a background in professional writing, which helps him communicate complex infrastructure ideas clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA: Professional Writing, Minor: Information Systems, BA: Professional Writing, Minor: Information Systems at Appalachian State UniversityBA: English, Minor: Spanish, BA: English, Minor: Spanish at The Citadel
English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (12)
ansible-galaxy10
docker10
logstash10
rsyslog10
dockers10
filebeat10
ansible10
apache9
kibana9
fluentd9
nginx9
rhel8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sadsfae/ansible-elk
Apr 2016 - Apr 2022
:bar_chart: Ansible playbook for setting up an ELK/EFK stack and clients.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:214 commits, 42 PRs, 195 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the infrastructure for an ELK/EFK stack. They implemented changes to Filebeat and rsyslog configurations, including adding support for OpenStack containerized logs and integrating with Fluentd. The user also updated Logstash configurations, upgraded the ELK stack to version 6.5+, and addressed issues related to reverse proxying with Apache. These changes reflect a focus on automating logging, improving data collection, and ensuring the smooth operation of the ELK stack.
centosrhelchartelksetting
sadsfae/ansible-7days
May 2016 - Feb 2017
Ansible playbook for installing and configuring 7 Days to Die game server
Contributions:27 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
dievagrantinstallingansiblegame-server
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