Joe Block
Education
University of Central Florida
B.S., Digital Media / Computer Science minor 1998-01-01 - 2000-01-01Work Experience
Zscaler
Current
Zscaler
Twilio
2020-07-01 - 2021-11-01
Twilio
Castlight Health
2017-01-01 - 2020-05-01
Castlight Health
DAQRI
2015-12-01 - 2017-01-01
DAQRI
Numenta
2012-09-01 - 2015-10-01
Numenta
Dalet Flex
2009-08-01 - 2012-08-01
Dalet Flex
2006-07-01 - 2009-06-01
Atlantic Dominion Solutions, LLC
2006-01-01 - 2006-01-01
Atlantic Dominion Solutions, LLC
Octavo Design and Production
2003-11-01 - 2005-10-01
Octavo Design and Production
Silent Planet
2002-09-01 - 2003-07-01
Silent Planet
Skills
Summary
Insightful, skilled Linux infrastructure engineer who consistently provides innovative solutions that increase productivity and reduce costs. Excels at defining and prioritizing technical requirements and implementation as well as communicating to both technical and non-technical users. • Wrote & open-sourced The Luggage (https://github.com/unixorn/luggage), a tool to package OS X software in platform-native pkg files. • Wrote and open-sourced Miyamoto (https://github.com/unixorn/miyamoto), a toolchain that makes administering masterless puppet nodes easier by distributing their manifests from an S3 bucket. • Wrote and open-sourced Agamotto (https://github.com/GrokSolutions/miyamoto), a tool for unit-testing servers post-deployment. • Started and maintain the Sysadmin Reading List (https://github.com/unixorn/sysadmin-reading-list) to help entry-level SREs and Sysadmins get up to speed. Specialties: Linux, AWS, Chef
