Aaron J. Sprague
Self-Taught Network & Systems Administrator
Resumé
Network & Systems Administration Experience - 5 years
Network Administration
- DNS Management – Cloudflare
- Level 3 Routing
- SSL Certificates – Let’s Encrypt
- VPN – OpenVPN, Wireguard
- Reverse Proxy & Load Balancing – HaProxy
- Subnetting
- VLans
- Spine & Leaf Network Topology / Redundancy
- Firewall Management / Network Security
- Intrusion Detection and Prevention
- Port Forwarding
- IP / GeoIP Blocking & Filtering
- OSI & TCP/IP Models
Systems Administration
- Firewall Management
- Router / Level 3 Switch Management
- High Availability / Load Balancing
- Cluster Server Architecture
- Virtualization – Proxmox
- BMC Management – iDrac, Supermicro BMC
- Network Attached Storage – Unraid, TrueNAS
- Hardware Experience – Dell PowerEdge, Supermicro, Consumer Hardware, and Netgear & Netgate Routing Equipment
- Virtual Machines / Remote Desktop Environments
Computer Science Skills
- Network Cable Termination – RJ45, (Learning Fiber)
- Traffic Management – FTP/SSH/SFTP/TCP/UDP
- Headless Device Management
- Unix & Windows CLI
- Large Language Models (Ollama)
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Mathematics
Programming Languages
Java ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Python ⭐⭐⭐
HTML & CSS ⭐⭐⭐
Rust ⭐
Education
Pursued a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
SUNY Brockport – Brockport, NY | August 2019 – May 2024 | 116 Credits Accrued
Advanced Regents Diploma
C.W. Baker High School – Baldwinsville, NY | September 2015 – June 2019
Certificates
- Currently Studying for CompTIA A+ and Network+ Certificates