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Summary

Chase (CK) Cameron is an experienced Site Reliability Engineer and Enterprise Systems/Cloud Architect with expertise in Exascale Object Storage and Enterprise/Cloud Infrastructure. With a strong background in infrastructure design, site reliability engineering, and project management, he has most recently led a team of 30 people driving substantial growth at Graymatter Robotics. He has a proven track record of deep systems knowledge, management finesse, and technical innovation from time at Amazon Web Services, Scality, and Cloudmark (now Proofpoint). Reducing and preventing incident response times is his game. He is currently seeing a remote or hybrid position full-time in SRE management.

Education

Portland State University
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Professional History

Graymatter Robotics
November 2022Present

Staff Engineer

  • Managed the Engineering department (30 employees) under the CTO.
  • Built and established the corporate infrastructure of Graymatter Robotics, implementing enterprise-level standards.
  • Spearheaded the creation of engineering standards, ensuring consistency and efficiency in development processes.
  • Implemented CI/CD practices and pipeline using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, Jira, and Confluence, streamlining the release process.
  • Developed new telemetry systems and customer interfacing systems using RobotOS, Python, Icinga, Splunk and Rust.
  • Integrated existing infrastructure with a cloud-forward AWS-based model, leveraging services (SQS, EKS, EC2, RDB, Aurora, ServiceCatalog, ControlTower, IAM, AWS Directory Services, Kinesis, RedShift, DataLake, and ElasticBeanstalk, Lambda).
  • Developed control and monitoring systems for diverse manufacturing contexts, utilizing TCL, C++, Python, PyTorch, and Cuda.
Amazon Web Services
July 2017October 2022

Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect (Infrastructure Engineering/Architecture Consultant)

  • Architected and implemented a unified telemetry, compliance, and risk management system for all of Amazon's consumer transportation and delivery services (now globally standard).
  • Successfully migrated the infrastructure of fortune-500 companies into AWS from datacenter-based architecture.
  • Managed customer relationships as a single-point contact for AWS professional services.
  • Adapted proprietary software (e.g. PeopleSoft) to cloud infrastructure and containerized complex applications.
  • Developed adaptations of AWS Cloudformation to Hashicorp Terraform to insure 1:1 functional equivalency.
  • Provided architecture and customer feedback for AWS Product teams. (S3, Glacier)
  • Developed performance testing automations, and implemented new testing frameworks to demonstrate the capabilities of AWS services. (Python, C++)
Scality
May 2012July 2017

Sr. Systems Reliability Engineer

  • Developed innovative system-replication frameworks using vmWare vCenter, Saltstack, Python, C, and C++ (65% reduction in support resolution time).
  • Created internal tools for systems analysis, data integrity verification, data recovery, and performance tuning using Python, C++, and C.
  • Successfully managed the company's IT and Identity infrastructure, implementing disaster recovery controls, asset management, and single sign-on authentication
  • Effectively fielded customer issues and managed engineering priorities, ensuring adherence to SLAs and maintaining strong vendor relationships to facilitate timely issue resolution.
  • Implemented distributed storage systems (some exceeding half an exabyte) for a variety of enterprise customers (e.g. NASA, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Labs, DLR, New Relic, the Vatican, Seagate, HPE, Howard Hughes Medical Institute).
  • Designed supervisory and meta-data management frameworks for distributed storage systems in GCP and AWS.
  • Led a team of 8 Systems Support and Customer Solutions engineers, fostering collaboration and driving successful project delivery.
Cloudmark
June 2009May 2012

Sr. Linux Systems Engineer

  • Managed and maintained the spam-filtration infrastructure for large, multi-national telecom, ISP, and wireless companies, ensuring uninterrupted service and high customer satisfaction.
  • Implemented Puppet (including a custom testing framework written in Ruby and Python) for datacenter and virtual infrastructure deployments.
  • Oversaw and developed the replacement of all network infrastructure hardware with A10 hardware and keepalived.
  • Architected centralized monitoring and indexing systems using Logstash, Kibana, ElasticSearch, and Splunk.
  • Initiated and led the company's cloud migration, starting with component services and leading to the Cloudmark Authority Engine. (AWS: SQS, EC2)
  • Actively participated in industry standards groups such as Spamhaus and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's emerging threat workgroups.
  • Managed and maintained distributed storage systems including GlusterFS, HDFS, Lustre, and ZFS, ensuring data integrity and availability.
  • Identified and resolved throughput bottlenecks by testing and implementing updated SAN storage solutions. (NetApp, EMC/Isillon)

Skills

Interdisciplinary Communication, Conflict Resolution, Root Cause Analysis, Cloud Engineering & Architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure), Distributed Systems   Engineering, Exascale Storage Engineering, Database Administration, Personnel Management, SLA and Compliance Management, Capacity Planning, Incident Response Management, Microservices Architecture, Serverless Architectures (AWS Lambda), Orchestration and Container Engineering (Kubernetes, Docker, ECS/EKS), Application Modernization, Infrastructure Migrations, DevOps Engineering, Scripting, Agile Software Development, Monitoring and Log Engineering, Performance Analysis, Standards Development, Customer Service, Engineering Consultation, Japanese, InfoSec Operations, Penetration Testing, Supply Chain Management, Fault Mitigation, Technical Writing, Tools Development, Scripting, Project Management

C, C++, Rust, Cuda, Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl, TCL, CloudFormation, PHP, Javascript, Java, Go, Ada/Spark, Zig, Swift, Haskell, OCaml