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Max Roby

  • Specialized in Automation, Vitrtualization, Infrastructure, and Games.
  • Passionate about Hyperconvergence and Open-Source Software.
  • 13+ years experience

Preferred Tools

Purpose Name
Operating Systems Debian, Ubuntu
Configuration Management Terraform, Ansible, Cloud-Init, Crossplane
Virtual Machines QEMU, KVM, Kubevirt, Multipass, vSphere
Obervability Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Thanos
Orchestration Kubernetes, Docker Compose
Languages C#, Python, Go, Bash
Front-End Untiy3D, CSS, HTML, JavaScript
CI/CD ArgoCD & Worflows, Github Actions, Gitlab Pipelines
Platforms Bare-Metal, Azure, GCP, AWS, Hetzner, Equinix

Open-Source Projects

  • PXEless: An automated system install and image customization tool for when PXE is not an option, or is not an option yet. Owner.

  • GameCI: The fastest way to build and test your Unity3D game projects. Maintainer

  • Onboardme: Onboardme is an automated dot-file, package-management, and neovim IDE setup tool that lets you provision Linux & Mac devices or dev containers just the way you like them. Maintainer

  • Smol k8s Lab: Bare-metal kubernetes with batteries-included using k3s, ingres-nginx, cert-manager and metallb. Maintainer

  • Kubevirt-Community-Stack A gitops-friendly implimentation of Kubevirt + cloud-init integration for use with ArgoCD & Argo Workflows.

Employment History

Guerrilla Games

Principal Devops Engineer, 2023 - Present

Working on the Horizon Online project

Uneti-Labs

Infrastructure Specialist, 2022 - 2023

Provided greenfield engineering internally for Uneti-Ventures and affiliated startups:

  • Surgical Reality: Lift-and-shift of web product into Azure Cloud using Terraform, Keycloak, Azure Container Service, and Github Actions.

  • Ampowr.com: Edge and Cloud infrastructure for Ampowr's Cosmos Energy Management System using Cloud-Init, Wireguard, Docker Compose, OpenEMS, InfluxDB, Github Actions, Terraform, and the Grafana Labs observabilty stack.

  • 2Solar.nl: Migration of MySQL databases into AWS RDS, Implementation of Grafana Labs Obsrvability Stack, and GitLab Pipelines.

  • Uneti-Labs: Build and management of Vast.AI GPU worker nodes, on-prem CI/CD runners, internal VPNs, and self-service compute/database assets using QEMU/KVM, Cloud-Init, Wireguard, ArgoCD. Kubernetes, and Ansible.

FedEx International

Senior Architect, 2020 - 2022

  • Led efforts to onboard colocated compute assets acquired from TNT Netherlands to Azure Cloud using Azure Kubernetes Service, VMware Tanzu, Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Go.

  • Maintained CI/CD runners and pipelines using Terraform, Gitlab Pipelines, Github Actions, and Jenkins.

STRIVR

Senior Platform Engineer, 2019 - 2020

  • Automated deployment and management processes of Android HMDs, edge-compute devices, and Google Cloud Platform resources using Ansible, Postgres, Clonezilla, Ubuntu, ADB, C#, and Bash.

  • Virtual office environment using C#, Unity3D

Freelance

Full-Stack Developer 2019 - 2020

  • Created, deployed, and managed custom Discord bot that assisted political campaign staff with community management, event organization, and compliance tasks for community of ~10k users using C#/.NET and AWS EC2.

  • Developed Unity3D interactive experience with personalized easter-eggs for community-members.

Pizza Hut Connect LLC

Sr. Systems Engineer 2011 - 2019

  • Managed the hardware-onboarding, certification, and compliance process for Point-of-Sale and other hardware for Pizza Hut's proprietary restaraunt management software suite using Bash, VirtualBox, Clonezilla, Ubuntu, SUSE, & Windows.

  • Wrote Inventory and Payroll CLI tools, Android apps using Java and Bash.

  • Built Interractive training tools and data visualizations using Unity3D, C#.