Erik Ellestad
System Administrator
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Ellestad is a systems administrator at UCSF, currently supporting the Wynton Computational Cluster with Linux, Apache, VMware, and AWS deployments. Having joined UCSF in 2005, he has steered major migrations from Solaris to Linux/VMware and from in-house environments to AWS, while providing 24x7 support across labs and campus services. His toolkit includes Unix/Linux, Windows, Postfix, Confluence, Moodle, Mahara, Git, Ansible, and OpenSSL, with hands-on experience in server maintenance, backups, and disaster recovery. Beyond IT, Erik runs savoystomp.com, a long-running cocktail history blog, and has hosted Savoy Cocktail Book Nights at Alembic in San Francisco. Based in San Francisco, he combines technical depth with a talent for community-building and storytelling, underpinned by a BA in English and Botany from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, Botany, BA, English, Botany at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (28)
documentation10
hpc9
laravel7
photo6
mastodon-app6
android-app5
slurm5
shibboleth4
dashboard4
json4
pixelfed4
api4
workload4
rest4
android4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ellestad/wynton
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
The Official Wynton HPC User Website
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
hpc
ucsf-wynton/wynton-website-hpc
Aug 2020 - Mar 2023
The Official Wynton HPC User Website
Contributions:295 commits, 348 pushes, 43 comments in 2 years 6 months
hpcucsf
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