Profile
DevOps Architect, Cloud Solution Architect, Senior Cloud Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer, Linux Systems Administrator, and scientific programmer/computational biologist with strong technical and analytical skills. Experienced in the areas of system administration, automation, hardware, databases, backup, web design (LAMP developer), programming, and scientific research. Interested in Cloud computing, AI/machine learning, data mining, pattern extraction, bioinformatics, and open source software development. NOTE: I am 100% a Linux guy.
(see: xtof.ch/cv for an extended CV/resume.)
Education
BSc Biochemistry and Biophysics,
Oregon State University
September 2000 -
June 2004
Graduate studies and research:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (biological sciences),
University of Pittsburgh (biophysics),
Carnegie Mellon University (biophysics),
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (comparative genomics),
København Universitet (bioinformatics), and
University of Washington (x-ray crystallography and genome sciences)
July 2004 -
November 2012
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHEL 6; Certificate #140-074-097)
May 2014
AWS Certified Developer - Associate (Certificate #AWS-ADEV-3367)
May 2016
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (Certificate #AWS-ASA-35064)
April 2017
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect (Certification ID: VO1HIA)
December 2019
Rancher Certified Consultant
December 2019
HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
April 2020
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
February 2021
Terraform: Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner (CHIP)
April 2021
SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Rancher 2.5
September 2021
SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in SUSE Rancher 2.6
January 2022
Skills
- see: xtof.ch/skills for a detailed listing of my technical and specialized skills.
- Computer operating systems: Linux (CentOS, CoreOS, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva), macos
- Technologies: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Anthos (+ACM/+ASM), Helm (v2/v3), Docker, Rancher, Istio, Ansible, Terraform (+TFE/+Sentinel), Pulumi, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Vagrant, Vault, Packer, Git, Apache, Nginx, MySQL / MariaDB, Xen, XenServer, KVM, OpenStack, Rackspace Cloud
- Computer languages and scripts: Python, PHP, Perl, Fortran77, C (+MPI/MPICH), (X)HTML, CSS, SQL, shell scripting (e.g., bash, awk, sed, etc.), RESTful APIs
- Related hobbies: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, IoT
- Languages Spoken: English, German, Spanish
Experience
Redapt, Seattle, WA, USA
DevOps Architect
March 2022 to present
Redapt, Seattle, WA, USA
Cloud Solution Architect
March 2020 to March 2022
Redapt, Seattle, WA, USA
Senior Cloud Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer
July 2018 to March 2020
Redapt, Seattle, WA, USA
Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer
September 2015 to July 2018
Trusted Builders, Seattle, WA, USA
Linux Administrator / DevOps Engineer
February 2015 to August 2015
Rackspace, USA
Linux Administrator II
May 2013 to January 2015
- see: xtof.ch/rackspace for detailed description.
MadLab, Seattle, WA, USA
Cloud and Web Developer
December 2012 to April 2013
Dr. Elhanan Borenstein Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Research Assistant / Scientific Programmer
August 2012 to November 2012
- see: xtof.ch/borenstein for detailed description.
Consultant, Seattle, WA, USA
Cloud and Web Developer
October 2010 to June 2012
Dr. Ethan A. Merritt Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Linux Administrator / Research Assistant (and software developer / maintainer)
October 2006 to October 2010
- see: xtof.ch/merritt for detailed description.
Dr. Carlos J. Camacho Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Linux Administrator / Research Assistant (and software developer / maintainer)
March 2006 to February 2007
- see: xtof.ch/camacho for detailed description.
Dr. David W. Ussery Laboratory, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Research Assistant (and programmer)
August 2005 to November 2005
- see: xtof.ch/ussery for detailed description.
Dr. Carlos J. Camacho Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Linux Administrator / Research Assistant (and programmer)
October 2004 to July 2005
- see: xtof.ch/camacho for detailed description.
Dr. Alex Rich Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Research Assistant (and programmer)
July 2002 to Decmeber 2002
- see: xtof.ch/rich for detailed description.
Dr. P. Shing Ho Laboratory, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Research Assistant (and software developer / maintainer)
May 2000 to September 2004
- see: xtof.ch/ho for detailed description.
Kevin Krefft microbiology laboratory, Albany, OR, USA
Laboratory Assistant
September 1998 to April 2000
Berlitz, Ljubljana, Slovenia
English Language Instructor
December 1996 to December 1997
Publications
- see: my list of publications on NCBI
- Frank Zucker, P. Christoph Champ, and Ethan A. Merritt (2010). Validation of crystallographic models containing TLS or other descriptions of anisotropy. Acta Cryst., D66:889-900.
- P. Christoph Champ and Carlos J. Camacho (2007). FastContact: a free energy scoring tool for protein-protein complex structures. Nucleic Acids Research (Web Issue) [NAR-00339-Web-B-2007.R1].
- P. Christoph Champ, Tim T. Binnewies, Natasja Nielsen, Guy Zinman, Kristoffer Kiil, Hang Wu, Jon Bohlin and David W. Ussery (2006). Genome update: purine strand bias in 280 bacterial chromosomes. Microbiology, 152(3):579-583.
- Carlos J. Camacho, Ma H, and P. Christoph Champ (2006). Scoring a diverse set of high-quality docked conformations: A metascore based on electrostatic and desolvation interactions. Proteins, 63(4):868-77.
- P. Christoph Champ, Sandor Maurice, Jeffery M. Vargason, Tracy Camp, and P. Shing Ho (2004). Distributions of Z-DNA and nuclear factor I in human chromosome 22: a model for coupled transcriptional regulation. Nucleic Acids Research, 32(22):6501-6510.
References
Personal and professional references are available upon request.