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CHRISTOPHER BRANCH

Mesa,AZ

Summary

Highly motivated engineer with a decade of experience in large enterprise environments. Professional experience includes Linux server environments, managing several thousand servers and services, including network hardware, protocols, and system tuning and performance through tangible data metrics. Passion extends into teaching and mentoring others to build strong team dynamics that have long term lasting business impact.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Site Reliability Engineer

Limelight Networks/Edgio
10.2018 - Current
  • Write custom tooling for system management and metrics for cache servers and software load balancers.
  • Develop best practices for software deployment strategies involving robust canaries, measuring A-B metrics for system reliability.
  • Writing documentation on architectures, method operating procedures(MOP), and providing training for various technical teams.
  • Diagnosing wide range of issues on production systems to system tuning to optimize performance, all while working closely with responsible infrastructure teams.
  • Linux performance tuning for filesystem, TCP stack, and overall system tracing to understand bottlenecks through various tools like strace, ftrace, and BPF.
  • System performance tuning increased on R650 servers increased bottleneck of 50Gbps to over 100+Gbps threshold, resulting in 2x gain.

Operations Engineer

Limelight Networks
06.2016 - 10.2018
  • Daily work on a globally distributed CDN network of over 5,000 hardware servers and 90+ geographically distributed POPs.
  • Diagnose and isolate performance impacting events from DNS, hardware/software load balancers, caching servers, reverse proxies.
  • Creating documentation for teams on troubleshooting hardware/software stacks, and overall end-to-end traffic delivery.

Electrical Engineer

Hagler Systems
08.2010 - 08.2014
  • Developed and drafted electrical schematics for industrial multi-million dollar projects using Zuken and AutoCad Electrical
  • Developed custom automation systems for dredges and other customer machinery
  • Created elaborate simulations using physical controls and PLCs for testing and research
  • Wrote custom programs for a variety of PLCs including Siemens, IFM, and Allen Bradley that interfaced with physical controls through a variety of protocols
  • Responsible for IT infrastructure, including troubleshooting a variety of devices from computers to CNC mills
  • Traveled to off-site locations, sometimes in different states, to work with a customer for a given automated system
  • Responsible for working with vendors, obtaining quotes and purchasing.

Skills

  • FreeBSD/Linux OS, networking, and code
  • Scripting python/bash/perl and some C
  • Developing best practices and troubleshooting documentation
  • Provide technical training for various teams
  • Data collection tooling and analysis for production systems
  • Canary deployments
  • System performance tuning
  • Configuration management(Salt Stack)
  • Reverse Proxies(Nginx/Haproxy)
  • Hardware/software load balancers
  • DNS Administration
  • HTTP Streaming Protocols(HDS/HLS/MSS/DASH)
  • Resilient system design
  • HTTP(s)/TCP Troubleshooting
  • SQL/InfluxDB/Prometheus
  • Zabbix

References

Shaun Robbins - Director of Engineering SRE - edg.io

(623) 628-4347

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaun-robbins-21ba5422/


Job Albert - Manger of SRE - edg.io

(623) 338-1760

https://www.linkedin.com/in/job-albert-74571710b/


James Durham - SRE - edg.io

(602) 769-6525

https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-durham-b08a9921/


Timeline

Site Reliability Engineer

Limelight Networks/Edgio
10.2018 - Current

Operations Engineer

Limelight Networks
06.2016 - 10.2018

Electrical Engineer

Hagler Systems
08.2010 - 08.2014

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