Seth Hover

I design, build and maintain technical infrastructure based on Linux (and other Unix derivatives) and free/open-source software.

I like to write clean, reusable and human-readable code in addition to leveraging existing tools in order to save time and money.

Using my skills simply to facilitate the flow of capital is not something I am passionate about.

My ideal postition is one in which I can help alleviate social, health, environmental and/or political issues.

Skills

Proficiencies:

Linux/UNIX system administration across every major distro/flavor (Red Hat/Debian and their derivatives, Free/OpenBSD, many smaller/independent distros)
Cloud computing and cloud resource management
Networking (physical/virtual)
AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Route53, ElastiCache, Cloudwatch, DynamoDB, IAM, SMS, SES, Athena, Glue, Kinesis, Cloudfront, Cognito...)
API/hosted app infrastructure design and management (load balancing, worker node/container management, monitoring, storage, data warehousing/processing)
Terraform
Advanced Bash scripting
Lifecycle and release management
Apache & nginx administration
SQL (most specifically PostgreSQL cluster administration)
Docker
Redis
Documentation (authorship and various frameworks)
Hardware/datacenter work (rack management, cabling, hardware prep and deployment)
Atlassian stack (Jira, Slack, Bitbucket, Confluence)

Familiar with:

BioTech Medical Software

Honolulu, HI & Tacoma, WA

2017–Present

Senior infrastructure architect and engineer for legacy Perl (Catalyst/Mojolicious) and cloud-native backend REST API systems (Go/gin) and frontend user interfaces (Vue.js) supporting more than 10 state contracts and 200+ private business customers
Co-led successful efforts to modernize our medication tracking platform (from manually-managed infrastructure and software release process to using Terraform and Bitbucket Pipelines for automated releases and updates)
Developed in-house IaC/IaaS deployment and management tools for various AWS services
Responsible for software/network security, image management/maintenance and ecosystem architecture
Created workflows to execute and support over 400 successful production-level PostgreSQL server migrations and upgrades
Onboarded and supported 20+ integration partner companies to expand our platform's B2B services
Acted as a final point of escalation for multiple departments including technical support, infrastructure and governmental affairs

Self-Employed

Washington State

2016

Designed and supported secure wireless network topology and hardware for internal and guest networks in high-volume commercial environments
Consulted on point-of-sale hardware purchase and installation
Managed IT services for medium-to-large scale public event production

ReadyTech Corporation

Nieuwegein, Netherlands & Oakland, CA

2012–2016

Led an international team of technical support staff during EMEA business hours
Developed internal training and documentation materials
Performed image intake and maintenance, including physical-to-virtual conversions and ground-up image design for use in private-cloud-based software training IaaS
Responsible for datacenter hardware/networking operations, documentation and support

OpenAccess Network Services

Bellingham, WA

2009-2011

Provided phone, email and CMS-based support for various ISP products
Responsible for datacenter and network hardware intake, configuration, testing and installation
Performed on-site installation and support of fiber, copper and wireless networking infrastructure including in hazardous conditions
Assisted in service/bandwidth provisioning, web/VPS hosting, physical colocation and light construction to deliver services

Bellingham, WA

2008–2010

Bellingham, WA

2003–2007