Infrastructure · Reliability · Automation

Jason Santo

Infrastructure & Reliability Specialist focused on resilient platforms, automation, and making production considerably less exciting.

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10+Years in technology

Linux · Cloud · IaCThings I enjoy working with

Toronto, ONBased in Your Location

01 / About

Infrastructure should be boring.
Getting it there is the interesting part.

I'm an infrastructure and reliability engineer interested in building systems that are predictable, observable, and easy for other engineers to operate.

My work tends to live somewhere between Linux, cloud infrastructure, automation, networking, observability, and figuring out why something broke at 2:00 AM.

02 / Experience

2022 — Present

Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Kepler Communications

Infrastructure Technical Lead working closely with other teams on vital internal and production systems.

Sustained >99.999% measured core availability after redesigning network, virtualization and Linux infrastructure.
Operate dozens of vital Linux servers and multiple production Kubernetes clusters, with ownership spanning monitoring, incident response and capacity planning.
Reduced virtual-server provisioning time by ~50% through Ansible-based infrastructure-as-code.
Modernized production networking, identity and secrets management while serving as technical lead for a 4–5-person team.

2015 — 2022

Senior Systems Administrator

Magna5

Owned infrastructure architecture, automation, and modernization for a business-critical legal environment.

Designed a highly available Fortinet, Cisco, VMware and Windows services stack, removing major network, compute and service failure points.
Automated endpoint provisioning with WDS, MDT and PXE, reducing hands-on deployment time by >90% to ~5 minutes per system.
Served as primary technical lead for infrastructure modernization, migrations, backup validation and technical risk decisions.

2012 — 2015

Systems Administrator

PCRX Computers

Provided end-to-end systems administration and technical ownership for a diverse portfolio of small-business clients.

Designed and supported Windows environments including Active Directory, file services, backups and network infrastructure.
Administered identity, permissions, routers and firewalls across client environments.
Served as the primary customer-facing technical contact across healthcare, construction, agriculture and retail clients.

03 / Selected Projects

Infrastructure as Code

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Declarative infrastructure and deployment automation using Terraform.

Terraform
Cloudflare
GitHub Actions

Homelab

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A playground for Linux, containers, networking, monitoring, and questionable weekend decisions.

Linux
Docker
Prometheus

04 / Contact

Let's build something reliable.

The easiest way to reach me is by email or LinkedIn.

Email ↗ LinkedIn ↗