Galen Richards
Senior Linux System Administrator with 20 years experience administering co-located and cloud based infrastructure. Management experience as Director of IT/Operations at hypergrowth startup. Co-founder of event production / entertainment company.
System Administrator, IAM Administrator
San Francisco, CA
[email protected]
Work Experience
Airbnb
Systems Engineer / IAM Administrator - Dec 2018 ~ Sep 2019
- Managed backend IAM/SSO systems
- Used APIs to build new tools to improve operational efficiency and simplify daily tasks
- Configured SCIM provisioning to streamline provisioning and reduce onboarding overhead
- Responsible for maintaining account synchronization between OneLogin, LDAP, G-Suite and Workday
- Wrote and maintained Python and Ruby scripts to automate provisioning and maintenance for 20000+ accounts
- Setup and deployed SAML 2.0 / OIDC connections for 100+ SaaS providers
- Created and maintained runbooks and other documentation to reduce support escalations
Arabella Productions
Co-founder / Lead Engineer - Feb 2018 ~ Present
- Lead engineer / architect
- Managed team of 15-20 people during construction
- Coordinated event staging and transport
- Network / system administrator
- Sound and lighting coordinator
Evernote
Senior IT Administrator / Director Of Operations - Jun 2008 ~ Nov 2018
- Primary architect for IAM/SSO technology stack including evaluation, selection and deployment of PingFederate, LDAP and G-suite
- Responsible for migration from PingFederate/LDAP to OneLogin to take advantage of integrated VLDAP technology
- Selected, deployed and managed internal MDM system
- Wrote automation scripts to streamline provisioning for 500+ devices and accounts.
- Oversaw rapid growth of corporate and datacenter environments (100,000+ new users per day)
- Grew operations team to support company during hypergrowth
- Managed multiple datacenter migrations of 100+ devices
- Hired China operations team
- Deployed Evernote platform to multiple datacenters in China
- Participated in and managed 24/7 on-call rotation
- Built out puppet/unicorn infrastructure to manage hundreds of systems
Office On Demand
Director of System Administration, Jul 2007 ~ Aug 2008
- Remote datacenter/website administration.
- Network/systems administrator for multiple Linux distributions.
- Webmaster for production web service
- Cisco router/firewall setup/maintenance
- VPN setup/maintenance
- MySQL database replication and management
Singlefin / St. Bernard Software
Senior System Administrator / Director of System Administration, May 2004 ~ May 2007
- Administered 120+ servers in 2 datacenters
- Internal Windows/Mac systems support and troubleshooting
- Network/systems administrator for various Linux distributions
- Postfix MTA setup/maintenance
- Zimbra Collaboration Suite setup/maintenance
- Cisco router setup/maintenance
- VPN setup/maintenance
- Perl/PHP programming
- MySQL/SQL Server/PostgreSQL database replication and management
- Squid proxy setup and customization
- Managed operations team. Primary architect for deployment of new servers and technologies.
- Maintained 120+ machines across multiple datacenters.
