SEEKING WORK - Austin or Remote
Linux sysadmin, with experience in high performance computing (HPC) and batch administration
Every hour you spend doing monotonous and repetitive tasks is one that could be spent doing something else. If a computer can do it, why not automate it? If there's people involved, let's get it down to the bare minimum.
Recent things I've done:
* Optimized application to reduce task turnaround time by 40%
* Matched specialized application to better hardware to reduce completion time by over 30%
* Streamlined a process from 1 month of effort, to 2 weeks, to 1 day
* Enabled user self-service configuration of tool that previously required support requests
I primarily write Perl and Ruby [on Rails], though if you have particular requirements I'm flexible. I fully understand the desire to have a minimum set of languages in your environment.
Just to be up front, this is a nights &#38; weekends thing for me for the time being.
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