Joe Rayhawk
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* Email: `jrayhawk@fairlystable.org`
* Phone: `+1 503.869.8658`
* PGP: `0xFEEDBEEF 4096R`

Professional Objective:
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Provide well-architected system and network infrastructure solutions to
optimize high-utility projects.

Employment History:
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### System Administrator - X.Org Foundation
 <http://www.x.org/> and <http://www.freedesktop.org/>

 December 2012 - Present

Planning, deployment, and maintenance of servers, VMs, services, and
support for Freedesktop.org projects. Services include file hosting,
documentation management, email, mailing lists, issue tracking,
continuous integration, and DVCS.

#### Achievements:
 * Rearchitecture of primary web resources using DVCS and static
   compilation.
 * Creation of a unified, security-isolated, and PAM-compatible
   authentication system for HTTP.
 * Creation of conference remote presence infrastructure using
   crtmpserver and manual gstreamer pipelines on three days notice.


### CEO - Fairly Stable
 <http://fairlystable.org/>

 September 2011 - Present

Day to day management of customers, finances, network infrastructure,
servers, VMs, and services for a managed hosting and consultation
company.

#### Achievements
 * Debian package for automatic generation of iptables rule utilization
   round-robin databases for use in graphs.
   <http://fairlystable.org/iptables-rrdtool/>


### System Administrator - APDM
 <http://apdm.com/>

 December 2008 - Present

Aiding employees in the planning, deployment, and maintenance of
servers, VMs, services, and network infrastructure for a medical
device support and telemetry management.

#### Achievements:
 * Remote-keyed MD-RAID1+DM-CRYPT+LVM root filesystem for HIPAA
   compliance with failover to remote recovery environment.
 * Selective versioning and selective distribution of large telemetry
   datasets with git-annex.
 * Cross-platform distributed build system automation with MinGW/Cygwin
   and KVM.


### System Administrator - The TOVA Company
 <http://www.tovacompany.com/>

 May 2008 - Present

Planning, deployment, and maintenance of servers, VMs, and services for
development and public-facing resources. Services include DVCS, build
and release automation, customer relations, PGP and OTP-secured product
activation, affiliate marketing, and HIPAA-compliant internal instant
messaging.

#### Achievements:
 * Architecture and deployment of x509 PKI
   (<http://fairlystable.org/cash/>) for enabling non-technical
   employees to use two-way public-key authentication for internal
   resources over HTTP, including HTTP-namespace-discriminated SSL
   renegotiation.
 * Integration of extra build, library, and kernel capabilities to an
   embedded Linux medical device.
 * Architecture and deployement of various customer relations network
   APIs.


### System Administrator - Portland State University Foundation

 August 2007 - Present

Planning, deployment, and maintenance of servers, VMs, and services
for various academic projects.

#### Achievements:
 * Piny: a git-backed Wiki and project management/hosting engine.
   <http://piny.be/piny-hosting/> (ssh newuser@piny.be to explore)
 * Project management for exotic asynchronous processor architecture
   projects at the Asynchronous Research Center.
   <http://arc.cecs.pdx.edu/>
 * Setup and debugging of embedded rocket operating system for guidance
   and telemetry.
   <http://psas.pdx.edu/>
 * Debugging many many regrettably fascinating problems with donated
   hardware. ("But it was free!" -- Bart)


### System Administrator - Cascadia Information Technologies/Cas Soft
 <http://www.cascadia.net>

 October 2003 - September 2009

Planning, deployment, and maintenance of servers, VMs, and services for
commercial hosting, e-commerce, and occasional network infrastructure
consulting. Very occasionally management of interns.

#### Achievements:
 * Modularization and migration of services, remote distribution
   installation and migration (Redhat -> Debian)
 * Established remote service monitoring, SNMP parameter monitoring, and
   PAM-based login monitoring.
 * Added and managed nodes for a fault-tolerant multi-homing corporate
   VPN using KAME and Racoon.
 * Maintenance and development of web applications under a proprietary
   mod_perl/sablotron/oracle framework.


### I.T. Lackey - EasyStreet Online Services
 <http://easystreet.com/>

 October 2002 - June 2003

#### Achievements:
 * Sample migration to and demonstration of mod_xslt under Apache and
   XML namespace linking for the modularization of the customer
   support site using XML, XSLT, XHTML, and SVG.
 * Installation of internal corporate Jabberd instant messaging
   server including SSL, remote administration, MUC text
   conferencing, a fully browsable user directory (JUD), and gateways
   to other chat services, and the installation of clients including
   Gabber, IMCom, Tkabber, Exodus, WinJab, and myJabber.


Skills:
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 * Languages: Ruby, Perl, POSIX-compliant shell.

 * Standards: x509, SSL, OpenPGP, POSIX, IP and assorted transport
    layer protocols, HTTP, XMPP, SSH, DNS (incl. rfc2136), MDNS, X11,
    SMTP, NTP, rsync, git, RTSP/RTMP/RTP, SNMP, Bitcoin, OFX, FIPS
    140-2, Opal, TPM, SecureBoot, dpkg.

 * System Administration: Debian family, Redhat family, FreeBSD,
    MacOS X, Cygwin/MinGW, Linux VServer, OpenVZ, Xen, QEMU/KVM,
    Linux namespaces and meta-tooling (LXC, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.),
    LUKS/dmcrypt, DRBD, Linux-HA.

 * Service Administration: Linux IPTables, FreeBSD ipfilter/ipnat,
    Apache, Lighttpd, Jabberd, KAME/Racoon (IPSec), BIND, Oracle,
    CUPSys, Xorg, NET SNMP daemon, Exim4, Cyrus, Git, Subversion,
    Ikiwiki, Mailman, Sympa, Rsync, Rsyslog, mon.

 * Multimedia: libavcodec/FFmpeg, GStreamer, Audacity, Gimp/Cinepaint,
    ImageMagick, Open Broadcast Software.

 * Social: networked with architecture-minded technical people:
    Graphics stack, hardware, microarchitecture, and compiler
    specialists.

 * Amazon APIs: EC2, S3, Twitch.

Non-professional interests:
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 * Complex systems: epistemology, philosophy, psychology,
   physiology, cars, economy, games.

References:
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Available on request.