Cayden D System Administrator and Developer

System Administrator and Developer

Linux, Docker, networking, automation. Working harder to make things easier.

About

My background and approach

I am a 22 year old system administrator focused on building and maintaining infrastructure that stays stable under real use. I work across Linux, Windows, Docker, networking, and automation. My day to day is a mix of deployments, monitoring, incident response, and writing tooling that removes repeat work.

I care about clean rollouts, clear communication during changes, and systems that are easy to operate. If something repeats, it should be automated. If something breaks, the monitoring should make it obvious why.

Projects

My recent work and contributions

Ashburn Datacenter Migration

Led logistics and coordination to relocate over a hundred servers from a decommissioned Buffalo site to Ashburn. Managed shipping, intake, rack layout planning, cable management, documentation, and final validation / testing.

Logistics Rack planning Cable management

Miami Datacenter Optimization

Performed full rack cleanup and layout optimization. Reorganized server placement, improved cable routing, and corrected airflow to make the environment better for cooling and maintainable.

Optimization Airflow Rack cleanup

Salt Lake City Operations and Upkeep

Oversaw 3 month term infrastructure upkeep. Standardized layouts, cleaned wiring paths, reorganized hardware placement, and maintained operational consistency. Improved maintainability and reduced future operational friction.

Operations Maintenance Standardization

Dallas Datacenter Relocation

Supported full facility relocation between Dallas locations. Assisted planning, equipment transfer, reinstallation, structured wiring, and post move verification to bring the new site online smoothly.

Relocation Deployment Infrastructure

Show of Force community server

Founded and operated a large-scale gaming community server. Responsible for infrastructure, system administration, automation, moderation tooling, and long-term operational stability.

Linux System Administration Community Infrastructure

Reforger community server administration

System administrator for a community-built Reforger server. Maintained Windows Server environment, handled updates, security, uptime monitoring, and service reliability.

Windows Server Operations Uptime Management

Advanced map voting plugin

Designed and built a revamped Squad map voting system in JavaScript. Fixed vote attribution, improved randomization, reduced repetition, and stabilized in-game vote handling.

JavaScript Game Server Plugin Development

ALT detection and ban correlation tool

Built an automated ALT-check system integrating external APIs. Cross-referenced BattleMetrics and community ban lists to identify linked accounts and enforce moderation consistency.

JavaScript API Integration Automation

Career

Operations and Systems Work

Systems Administrator

Responsible for infrastructure reliability, service stack operations, monitoring, incident response, and internal tooling. Focused on clean deployments and keeping customer facing systems stable.

Linux Docker Automation

Support Representative

Provided customer facing technical support, infrastructure troubleshooting, and service guidance. Built a strong understanding of client needs and real world operational impact.

Support Troubleshooting Customer operations

Skills

Technical and Operational Competencies

Infrastructure

Ubuntu, systemd, Docker, VPS Ops, Backups, Monitoring, Incident response.

Networking and datacenter

Structured wiring, Power planning, Cable management, Control, Rack planning.

Observability

Grafana dashboards, health checks, alerting design, Monitoring.

Development

JavaScript, Python, APIs, Automation, Tooling that stays stable after deployment.

Contact

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