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 posture. I'm currently leading the rearchitecture of our CDN security DDoS detection and mitigation infrastructure.

Technologies: Go, Python, Java, Flink, AWS, Kafka, gRPC, FreeBSD, React/Typescript
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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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Chief Technology Officer
October 2019 - March 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

As CTO and first engineering hire at eFuse, I was responsible for establishing a product and engineering organization from the ground up. During my 2.5 years at the company I wore virtually every hat to build a silicon-valley style company going from zero to 30 engineers, and zero to hundreds of thousands of users.

  • Brought in OKRs to help clearly communicate what winning looks like and aligning all teams around our goals
  • Architected and built CI/CD and deployment pipelines to support our engineers shipping code up to 30 times a day
  • Brought in various tools and processes to help us scale our engineering organization: Feature Flags, A/B testing, Mixpanel, Observability
Technologies: React/Typescript, Next.js, Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, React Native
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Production Engineer -- Network Systems
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

On the Network System Team I was working on our Network Disaster Recovery infrastructure.

Technologies: Python, Backbone, BGP, Linux, Thrift, TCP/IP, MPLS, eBPF
Production Engineer -- Traffic/CDN
Mar 2014 - Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 10 mos

On the Traffic/CDN team I was the TL on our embedded caching going from 0 servers to many thousands in dozens of countries.

  • Deep Linux Boot Process, Security, Attestation
  • Global Load Balancing
  • Built provisioning infrastructure: PXE, TFTP, etc.
Technologies: Global DNS Load Balancing, L4/L7 Load Balancing, Python, HTTP/1.1/2, Linux Security/Attestation, 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, messenger, etc, was online and reliable.

  • Automated myself out of my job with python
Technologies: Python, MySQL, Chef, Linux, 24/7 Oncall, o11y
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Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2010 - 2012

As a Linux Infrastructure Engineer at Nationwide, I was responsible for managing and maintaining the company's Linux infrastructure.

  • Developed a centralized events that improved visibility into our infrastructure
  • Automated a bunch of the repetitive tasks with python
  • Worked across several platforms: bare metal x86_64, VMWare, Mainframe zLinux
Technologies: Linux, Python, Bash, VMware, Puppet, Mainframe zLinux, Oracle DB

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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