Geoff Rowland
Senior Systems Administrator
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeoff Rowland is a pragmatic Systems Administrator with two decades of IT experience and five years focused on research computing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where he manages mixed Linux and Windows infrastructures, hundreds of terabytes of storage, VMware virtualization, and multi-user SAS and RStudio environments. He has deep hands-on expertise in automation and operations—Docker, Ansible, Veeam, and single-sign-on integrations—and a history of architecting resilient cloud and hosting solutions, including auto-scaling AWS backends and hybrid Rackspace deployments. His background spans research, gaming, academia, and government projects, from building automated build systems and Perforce integrations for game studios to deploying satellite-to-FM content delivery in developing regions. Comfortable bridging developer and sysadmin needs, he also brings practical database and scripting skills (MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres, shell, PHP) and experience tuning high-traffic services. Colocated in Baltimore, he pairs institutional research support with a knack for pragmatic, low-friction tooling that keeps complex multi-user platforms running.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Northumbria UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Frostburg State University
Github Skills (49)
metricbeat10
observability10
heartbeat10
kibana10
java10
filebeat10
packetbeat10
logstash10
etl-framework10
elasticsearch10
logging10
elastic10
visualizations10
jruby10
streaming10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/golang-crossbuild
Aug 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 20 PRs, 74 pushes in 5 months
elastic/elastic-agent
May 2024 - Jan 2025
Elastic Agent - single, unified way to add monitoring for logs, metrics, and other types of data to a host.
Contributions:74 reviews, 34 PRs, 42 pushes in 8 months
monitoring
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