Jonathan J. Thiessen Grand Forks BC CA https://tangential.ca

Foreword

I've been a human all my life. Sometimes I like to do computery things. Please mind the footnotes.

I have some interest in espresso, mixology, zymurgy, fountain pens, and the formal sciences. I seek to apply and further develop my skills in functional and declarative programming.

Please see your associated cover letter for more details. References and private personal project samples available on request. Public repositories and open source contributions are available though a combination of GitHub and GitLab.

Employment History

  1. AAA Internet Publishing Inc (DBA WTFast) Senior Software Developer Go NATS Linux Puppet Docker GCP Nix Terraform Git GitHub Redis Neo4j Bash Scripting IP Networking 2022.01 2023.12 Remote
    • Designed and authored backend APIs and data processing services
    • Deployed and operated NATS clusters
    • Wrote just enough Puppet, Terraform, and Nix to be self-sufficient
    • Fumbled through GCP without breaking anything
  2. TeraGo Networks Inc Various Roles 2011.06 2021.12
    1. TeraGo Networks Inc Manager, Operational Support Systems 2017.01 2021.12 Remote
    2. RackForce Networks Inc Manager, Operational Support Systems 2016.10 2017.01 Remote
    3. RackForce Networks Inc Manager, Operational Support Systems Linux Puppet Docker AWS Consul Vault Nomad Terraform PHP Percona Git GitLab Jira Confluence BIND PowerDNS NSD Unbound Cisco ASA Bash Scripting VMWare vSphere VMWare VCD IP Networking 2014.03 2016.10 Kelowna BC
      • Plan, oversee, and actively engage in the development of our applications and associated integrations
      • Maintain operational, configuration, and other procedures (e.g., disaster recovery)
      • Research and evaluate technologies and techniques
      • Provision and maintain production servers
    4. RackForce Networks Inc Developer PHP MariaDB Web Markup (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap) jQuery Git Stash (Bitbucket Server) Jira Confluence Linux Puppet Bash Scripting Apache HTTPD nginx D3.js R PostgreSQL VMWare vSphere IP Networking 2013.10 2014.03 Kelowna BC
      • Develop and deploy web applications
      • Provision and maintain production servers
    5. RackForce Networks Inc NOC Supervisor Linux Bash Scripting D3.js R MySQL PostgreSQL VMWare vSphere Cisco IOS Cisco NX-OS IP Networking 2013.01 2013.10 Kelowna BC
      • Design and maintain analytics for support metrics
      • Provide recommendations for NOC process improvements
      • Manage employee scheduling and develop alternative models for shift rotations
      • Respond to support requests and incidents where required
      • Author and perform network and systems change requests where required
    6. RackForce Networks Inc NOC Technician Linux Virtuozzo cPanel Plesk Bash Scripting Apache HTTPD PHP MySQL BIND Postfix Windows Server VMWare ESXi VMWare vSphere Cisco IOS Cisco NX-OS IP Networking 2011.06 2013.01 Kelowna BC
      • Respond to support requests and incidents
      • Author and perform network and systems change requests
      • RHEL/CentOS server administration
      • (Basic) Windows Server administration
  3. Sunshine Communications Ltd Internet Technician Linux PHP MySQL Perl Web Markup (HTML, CSS) Bash Scripting Apache HTTPD BIND Sendmail Radius DOCSIS SNMP Riverstone (RS 8000) Cisco IOS IP Networking
    • Network design, maintenance, and troubleshooting
    • Linux server administration
    • Customer technical support
    • Development of customer management and provisioning systems
    2004.10 2006.08 Grand Forks BC

Independent Contracting

  1. Jonathan Thiessen Sole Proprietor 2022.02 Grand Forks BC
    1. TeraGo Networks Inc Independent IT Contractor — DevOps Consultant 2024.02
      • Legacy systems training, documentation, maintenance, and migrations
      • Miscellaneous systems integrations and platform development
      • Network device management improvements
      • Design and implementation of a network device utilisation monitoring system
      Remote
    2. TeraGo Networks Inc Independent IT Contractor — DevOps Consultant (Casual) 2022.02 2024.01 Legacy systems training, documentation, maintenance, and migrations Remote
  2. Jonathan Thiessen (DBA At Home Consulting) Sole Proprietor 2007.05 2008.08 Grand Forks BC
    1. Shaw Communications Inc Independent IT Contractor Legacy systems documentation, maintenance, and migrations Grand Forks BC
      1. 2008.05 2008.08
      2. 2007.05 2007.08

Education and Certificates

  1. Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Developer - Associate (DVA)
    1. 2017.12.14 2020.12.14
    Kelowna BC
  2. ITIL ITIL v3 Foundations
    1. 2012.12
    Kelowna BC
  3. University of Waterloo BMath, Joint Honours Computer Science & Combinatorics and Optimization 2006.09 2011.04 Waterloo ON
  4. Cisco Networking Academy Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
    1. 2004.06.29 2007.06.29
    Kelowna BC

Favourite fortune Quote

[I plan] to see, hear, touch, and destroy everything in my path, including beets, rutabagas, and most random vegetables, but excluding yams, as I am absolutely terrified of yams…

Actually, I think my fear of yams began in my early youth, when many of my young comrades pelted me with same for singing songs of far-off lands and deep blue seas in a language closely resembling that of the common sow. My psychosis was further impressed into my soul as I reached adolescence, when, while skipping through a field of yams, light-heartedly tossing flowers into the stratosphere, a great yam-picking machine tore through the fields, pursuing me to the edge of the great plantation, where I escaped by diving into a great ditch filled with a mixture of water and pig manure, which may explain my tendency to scream, "Here come the Martians! Hide the eggs!" every time I have pork. But I digress. The fact remains that I cannot rationally deal with yams, and pigs are terrible conversationalists.