About Me
My name is Michael and I am a self-taught backend software developer and systems administrator. Over the years, I have spent my free time learning new coding languages and technologies, learning everything from object oriented programming (C#) to teaching myself how to manage and operate VMWare ESXi hypervisors. I am a knowledge-seeker at heart, especially when it comes to tech stacks, and will gladly take on projects meant to challenge me. I have aspirations to gain industry-level certifications in the future including but not limited to CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Linux+.
Experience
Senior Director
Duality Networks
- Responsible for development and community events
- Created numerous Lua-based addons for a Garry's Mod breach gamemode including but not limited to an attachments store, steam group rewards, and SCPs.
- Obtained exposure to GLua's derma library, creating a completely from-scratch UI for the Duality Attachments project.
Owner
BeyondRP
- Owned, developed, and managed a FiveM community.
- Created C#-based FiveM server resources, as well as typescript-based Discord bots.
- Managed system security through SSH keys and firewalls.
- Creation of system backup policies, and Nginx/PHP-FPM blocks for the community website.
- Led a Staff Team of 20-30 people and a Development Team of about 5 people.
Senior Programmer
DOJRP
- Developed a highly-scalable typescript and redis-based queuing bot for TS3 users to queue into a channel when it's full.
- Conducted quality assurance testing with members of the Staff Team through organized closed playtests.
- Obtained exposure to OOP (C#) and began learning the language.
- Created numerous C# resources for DOJRP's FiveM Servers
Community Director
Hydra Community
- Installed and maintained two bare metal machines running a total of six VMware ESXi hypervisors, employing network security procedures and automated backups.
- Conducted full-scale migrations to newer systems during upgrades, with the goal of making the setup as uniform as possible to the previous system and minimizing downtime.
- Provided top-level oversight to a staff team of ~80 users.
- Managed many servers for the games SCP:SL and Garry's Mod, with hundreds of concurrent users.
Systems Administrator & Steam Platform Manager
Northwood Studios
- Responsible for site reliability, and deployment of Nginx servers.
- Managed system access including SSH keys, and assisted with integration of load balancing into Nginx site blocks.
- Assisted Lead Systems Administrator with renewal of SSL certs, and installation of new systems.
- Oversaw the Steam Community Hub for SCP:SL (Steamworks Developer Access), managing a moderator team of 4 people, and answering questions on the Steam forums.
Projects
IX - SCPRP
Fork of the Helix HL2RP schema for a private project, seeing drastic revisions and creation of unique plugins for the purpose of SCPRP. Plugins include rDepartments which adds joinable departments with a full fledged ranking structure and permissions, rScrambles which adds working scramble goggles for SCP-096, and more.
HAM (Hydra Administration Menu)
Simple Bash-based script used to manage multiple servers on dedicated machines through tmux, and also had feaures such as updating the servers through Steam.