Tony . Li . Chang
San Francisco, CA
tony@eliminated.org
Profile
Senior-level Systems Engineer specializing in the design, deployment, and on-going
administration of highly available infrastructures. 15 years of production experience with a
successful track record in 24x7x365 hosting environments.
Operating Systems
Linux, Windows, BSD, IOS/CatOS, ScreenOS, TrafficWorks, TMOS
Programming Languages
Batch, Bourne shell, C, C++, Expect, Perl, PHP, Python
Software
Apache, BIND, Ethereal, exim, Flash Media Server, IIS, iptables, LVS, SQL Server, mySQL,
Nagios, PXE, sendmail, snort, SSH, tcpdump, WANSync DR/HA
Services
Akamai, Gomez, Keynote, LimeLight Networks
Recent Experience
Senior Systems Operations Engineer
Akamai Technologies 03/2010 – Present
NetOps liaison for Akamai streaming networks. Participant of 24x7 pager rotation in support of
various infrastructure services.
Operational ownership of multiple Akamai edge networks.
Perform duties and tasks in support of core Akamai infrastructure.
Interface with engineering and network strategy for expansion and upgrades.
Director of Operations
Yottaa 03/2009 – 03/2010
Participated in due diligence as sole operations resource in closing of Series A funding. Created
board-facing cost projections and departmental objective milestones.
Designed and built a software distribution service supporting hundreds of nodes.
Defined operational policies regarding production (access, backup, monitoring, etc).
Manager of Production Systems
Adify 06/2006 – 09/2009
Responsible for the overall availability and scalability of the Adify production environments.
Managing a team of production systems, network, and database administrators in support of an
online advertising platform.
Designed an application acceleration framework for enhanced end user delivery.
Implemented various CDN services to ensure scalability and end user satisfaction.
Senior Engineer
ServePath / ColoServe / UpStream Networks 06/2004 – 06/2006
Final-tier escalation for a high-density data center.
Education
University of South Carolina – Columbia
BS Computer Engineering, Class of 2002
References available upon request.