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Hi, I am Ganiman

I am a systems engineer
I am a director
I love servers
I like problem solving
I am a gamer
I work on open-source projects
I love to work with awesome people

Chris Manigan

IT Director

I am a passionate IT engineer with over 20 years of working experience. I built a community of over 500,000 gamers. My tools help people to deploy their workloads in Kubernetes. Sometimes, I work on some fun projects such as hosting game servers and scaling them.

Leadership

Team Work

Hard Working

Skills

Linux

Linux

Using as the every day operating system. Capable of writing bash/shell scripts. Decades of production experience.

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing

Worked with most of the major clouds such as AWS, Azure and Digital Ocean

Git

Git

Experienced with git-based development. Mostly, use Github. Also, have experience in working with Subversion.

Terraform

Terraform

Capable of deploying, managing and modifying cloud infrastructure.

Ansible

Ansible

Using to manage server operations, maintenance and consistency. Capable of writing scalable, testable, and maintainable YAML.

Docker

Docker

Create and deploy containers with persistent volumes. Build apps with docker compose.

Python

Python

Write scripts, tools and micro services. Create automations and webhook events.

PHP

PHP

Know object orientated PHP programming. Used for rapid website development. Create plugins and extensions for popular open source web projects.

Experiences

1

OpenNMS

August 2016 - Sep 2024

Apex, NC

Open source network monitoring software

IT Director

August 2016 - Sep 2024

Responsibilities:

Responsible for organization’s infrastructure
Lead operations team
Planned migration of legacy on-prem systems into cloud
Managed integration team after aquistion
Organized the last Dev Jam ever

WB Games

May 2015 - August 2016

Waltham, MA

Video game publisher and developer

Lead Online Operations Engineer

May 2015 - August 2016

Responsibilities:

Lead Online Operations team of 4 SREs for titles include Dungeons and Dragons Online, Lord of the Rings Online and others
Partnered with external design firms to build and deploy web sites for upcoming titles on AWS EBS
Selected as member of security change control board

2

3

RxInsider

Sep 2014 - May 2015

Warwick, RI

Pharmacy related SaaS products

DevOps Engineer

Sep 2014 - May 2015

Responsibilities:

Introduced organization to version control with git
Designed new infrastructure for Dev, QA and Production environments
Planned and lead development of new SaaS products

Towerstream

Nov 2007 - Sep 2014

Middletown, RI

Wireless Internet Server Provider

Lead Systems Engineer

Nov 2007 - Sep 2014

Responsibilities:

Supervised a team of 5 systems and software engineers
Created IP management system
Designed multi-market customer DNS platform and created custom internal front-end management interface
Planned and implemented backend services for Wi-Fi network spanning all of Manhatten
Spearheaded implementation of Radius integration with between Tier 1 ISPs
Wrote applications to manage, monitor and service customer premise equipment
Performed R&D and POC to load test network infrastructure

4

5

Telatexo

Jan 2006 - November 2012

Pawtucket, RI

Building gaming communities

Founder

Jan 2006 - November 2012

Responsibilities:

Managed relationships with video game publishers
Partnered with game producers on community events
Provided reporting on community
Managed site operations
Supervised hundreds of content editors
Provided news and interviews at E3 and PAX
Developed custom extensions and integrations for MediaWiki and phpBB
Lead aquisition of FFXIclopedia into Fandom