NAME

shuff - cto (Chief Technology Officer), sre (Site Reliability Engineer), pe (Production Engineer), swe (Software Engineer)

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

A hands-on engineering leader and seasoned software reliability expert with a track record of building and scaling some of the largest CDN, networking, and distributed systems infrastructures in the world. Experienced in architecting secure, performant, and resilient platforms at global scale. Deep technical fluency across the stack—ranging from low-level Linux and TCP/IP internals to modern web frameworks to CI/CD and data pipelines. Proven success as a CTO, Eng. Mgr, Director, SRE, and SWE driving engineering excellence, team velocity, and product reliability shipping world-class software.

CAREER

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Netflix
Site Reliability Engineer -- CDN Security
November 2023 - Present

As Netflix moves into the live streaming space it changes our surface area for security and reliability from external actors I'm currently leading the rearchitecture of our CDN security detection and mitigation platform.

Technologies: Go, Python, Java, Flink, AWS, Kafka, gRPC, FreeBSD, ElasticSearch
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Coinbase
Site Reliability Engineer
March 2022 - October 2023

I joined Coinbase as the most senior SRE IC in the company to double down on reliability and scalability and build out their SRE organization. I worked across the infrastructure and product teams to deliver new reliability primatives in the paved paths: Baseline Canaries, Auto Deployment rollbacks, Circuit Breaking, etc. I also rewrote the internal service registry (Golang, React) to achieve 100% coverage of service ownership and map to accountable pagerduty rotation.

Technologies: Go, MongoDB, gRPC, React/Typescript, Next.js, AWS, Terraform, Datadog
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Jarobe Labs
Founder / CEO
2022 - Present

Jarobe Labs is a startup focused on developing innovative solutions in the tech space.

Technologies: React/Typescript, Next.js, Python, Golang, Linux
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eFuse.gg / esports.gg
Chief Technology Officer
October 2019 - January 2022

Led the technical vision and engineering teams for eFuse.gg and esports.gg, platforms focused on the gaming and esports industry.

Technologies: Terraform, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, React/Typescript, Next.js, GraphQL, Redis, Docker, Datadog, Figma
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Site Reliability Engineer -- CDN Reliability
February 2019 - October 2019

Focused on ensuring the reliability and performance of Netflix's content delivery infrastructure worldwide.

Technologies: Python, AWS, TCP/IP, BGP, Linux
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Production Engineer -- Network Systems
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

The Net Systems team is responsible for much of the centralized software control plane powering virtually all of facebook's backbone/routing network infrastructure.

  • Designed and implemented network monitoring systems that improved incident response time by 40%.
  • Led Network Disaster Recovery efforts to limit the impact to our services/infrastructure during large scale network outages.
  • Played a key role in org-wide XFN projects including network efficiency efforts to make sure we are utilizing our network capacity as efficiently as possible.
Technologies: Python, DWDM, BGP, Linux, Thrift, TCP/IP, MPLS, eBPF
Production Engineer -- Traffic/CDN
Mar 2014 - Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 10 mos

The traffic team is responsible for our global load balancing infrastructure which involves load balancing through DNS, and layer 3 (IP), 4(TCP), and 7 (HTTP, SPDY) in the networking stack.

  • Managed the buildout and global operation of our edge infra to ensure facebook is fast for users all around the world.
  • Worked on the CDN team to ensure reliable and efficient delivery of photos/videos to people accessing facebook anywhere in the world.
Technologies: Global DNS Load Balancing, L7 Load Balancing, L4 Load Balancing, Python, HTTP/1.1/2, Linux Security, TCP/IP, BGP
Site Reliability Engineer -- Global Operations
Nov 2012 - Apr 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos

The Site Reliability team was responsible for making sure facebook was online and reliable.

  • Participated in virtually all outages and worked closely with teams across the infrastructure.
  • Helped teams improve their systems' monitoring, reliability, and resiliency.
  • Developed and implemented best practices for incident response and post-mortem analysis.
Technologies: Python, PHP, MySQL, Memcached, Hadoop, Nagios, Linux
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Nationwide
Linux Infrastructure Engineer
January 2011 - October 2012

I worked on the Linux team to ensure the build, delivery, and operation of all virtual, physical and mainframe Linux servers throughout Nationwide's environment. We managed the underlying OS across a variety of workloads: Application Servers, Frontend, Database, etc. I spent a lot of my time automating away the manual sys admin work we were doing with python.

Technologies: Linux, Python, Bash, Ansible, VMware, Nagios, Puppet

CERTIFICATIONS

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Instrument Airplane
Federal Aviation Administration
Issued Sep 2024
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Private Pilot
Federal Aviation Administration
Issued November 2023
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Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Redhat
Credential ID 111-093-878
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Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
Redhat
Credential ID 111-093-878
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Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning (EX442)
Redhat
Credential ID 111-093-878

EDUCATION

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B.S, Computer Science & Engineering
The Ohio State University - 2005 - 2010

Activites & Societies: Open Source Club

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Jackson Center High School
Jackson Center, Ohio - Graduated: 2005

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PRESENTATIONS

AUTHORS

Patrick Shuff
Email: patrick@shuff.me
Location: Ohio, USA

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