Clay Risser

My Linux expertise spans RedHat, Debian, and Alpine. Beyond administration, I've built custom Debian packages, embodying deep system architecture understanding.

I've orchestrated cloud infrastructure on AWS with services like EC2, S3, and Lambda, ensuring optimal infrastructure management, cost efficiency, and automation.

Using OpenID and OAuth 2.0, I've built secure authentication and authorization protocols. Keycloak was a central tool in these identity management tasks.

I've managed Postgres databases, focusing on backups, high availability and replication. I have also deployed Postgres within Kubernetes environments using Percona.

I've used Docker to build, publish, and manage containers in production environments, also leveraging Podman, Buildah, and docker-compose for orchestration.

I've used Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, managing complex applications and Kops clusters, ensuring robust scalability for Kubernetes workloads.

I've managed extensive cloud resources, ensuring service scalability and high availability. This includes leveraging AKS for effective orchestration and cluster management.

By integrating SAML and Keycloak, I've delivered secure single sign-on solutions, federated identity management, and implemented banking-grade authentication.

Using Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Helm, I've orchestrated applications, ensured high-availability and redundancy across clusters, and managed Helm and Kustomize deployments.

Python has been a cornerstone in my backend development, scripting, data analysis, and machine learning tasks, emphasizing my deep understanding of its applications.

Within Google Compute Engine, I've skillfully managed virtual machines and resource allocation, ensuring effective cost efficiency. I've also used GKE to manage Kubernetes.

I've ensured MongoDB's data consistency, horizontal scaling through sharding, replication, backups, and running it on Kubernetes with Percona.