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michael riley

Work · in detail

The work-side
of the site.

Hi, I'm Michael. My work has always lived at the edge of two things I care about equally: solving hard technical problems and helping people succeed. By day, I manage critical infrastructure escalations for enterprise customers at Upsun. Outside of work, I speak at developer conferences, contribute to open source, build tools that make engineers' lives easier, and work on cool projects. Whether it's a customer in crisis or a developer in a conference room, I show up the same way — present, technical, and focused on making things actually work.

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§ 01 — Experience

Where I’ve put time in.

  1. 2023  — now

    Elite Cloud Support Engineer

    Upsun/Platform.sh

  2. 2022  — 2023

    Cloud Support Engineer

    Upsun/Platform.sh

  3. 2021  — 2022

    IT Support

    Aunt Martha's Health and Wellness

  4. 2020  — 2021

    Systems Administrator

    GreatNews.life

§ 02 — Skills

Tools I reach for first.

Category

Programming Languages

  • P Python
  • . .Net/ C#
  • J Java
  • N NodeJS/Typescript

Category

Supported and Deployed

I have experience extensively supporting these Programming languages and App Frameworks from the Infrastructure Side

  • P PHP
  • P Python
  • N Node.js
  • D Drupal
  • M Magento
  • D Django
  • F FastAPI
  • F Flask

Category

Cloud & Infra

  • A AWS Includes EC2, RDS, S3, Route53, Privatelink, and VPC
  • M Microsoft Azure
  • G GCP
  • M Most other EU and US Public Clouds Includes Upcloud, Vultr, Linode, OVH, Hetzner
  • I Incident Management
  • C CDNs
  • G Gitlab CI/CD
  • L Linux System Administration Including Extensive work on RHEL and Debian based systems
  • W Windows Server Administration
  • L LXC/LXD/Incus
  • D Docker
  • K Kubernetes
  • P Puppet

Category

Database Systems

  • M MySQL
  • M MariaDB/Galera
  • P Postgres
  • C CockroachDB
  • P Patroni
  • M MongoDB

§ 03 — Education

Where I learned the basics.