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Founders
Michael Zeitlin
{CEO}
Michael Zeitlin brings over 20 years of leadership experience in software services and solution companies. He specializes in building high-performance teams, managing projects, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Michael's career includes significant roles in pre-sales services, product management, and implementing complex managed services. He has a deep understanding of customer operations, support, professional services, and the SaaS sectors, with experience in media, telecom, retail, ICT, and financial industries.
Education:
BA in Government & History, Cornell University
MBA in Operations Management, Indiana University
BA in Government & History, Cornell University
MBA in Operations Management, Indiana University
Military Service:
Lieutenant, Surface Warfare, US Navy
Lieutenant, Surface Warfare, US Navy
Chris Bentz
{CIO & Principal SW Architect}
Chris Bentz has over 20 years of high-level industry experience in developing private, public, and hybrid cloud infrastructures. He is adept at designing and deploying combined VM/container applications and has extensive knowledge of programming languages, development environments, infrastructure as code, automation tools, and deployment technologies. Chris is recognized for his ability to quickly assess project needs and deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions.
Meet Chris
Education:
BS Specialist in Computer Science & Mathematics, University of Toronto
Certifications:
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified Solution Architect
Google Associate Cloud Engineer
Skills:
Programming: Java, Python, SQL, Bash, Gradle, Maven, Ant, JSP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, C#, C++, Spring Boot, .NET Core, PHP, Ruby, TCL, Rest APIs, Web Services, SSH, Flask, Apache Cordova
Software: OpenStack, VMware, Amazon EC2, Cacti, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Nagios, Mrtg, OpenView, Nerve Center, Unicenter, Intermail, Sphera, Plesk, Bind, Sendmail, Qmail, OpenRadius, Imail, IIS, Apache2, NGINX, JSON, Grafana, XML
Tools: Eclipse IDE, SQL Developer, Git, SVN, Jenkins, HP ALM, TeamForge, JIRA, Terraform, Vault
Servers: JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, Nginx, Flask, Django
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, NoSQL
Cloud Experience: AWS, Azure, GCP, Ericsson CEE, OpenStack, Terraform, Kubernetes, Mirantis Fuel, Helm, Docker, VMware, OPNFV, Rancher, MAAS, Kubernetes CNI
Equipment: Cisco, Foundry, Juniper, F5, Brocade, HP, IBM, Checkpoint, Coyote
Monitoring: ELK, SolarWinds, Nagios, Zabbix, Cacti, Wireshark
DevOps Tools: Jenkins, GIT, TFS, Puppet, Ruby, Perl, Python, Salt, Ansible, SSH, Azure DevOps, Ant, Maven, Selenium, Chef, Terraform
Operating Systems: Linux (Redhat/Centos, Ubuntu/Debian, Suse, Solaris) and Windows
David Vinnenberg
{Principal SW Architect}
Our Team
Andy Leach
{COO & Principal DevOps Architect}
Don Baugh
{DevOps Engineer & System Integrator}
Don brings 40+ years systems engineering on various operating systems (VMS, Solaris, Linux) & cloud experience with AWS, OpenStack, Azure and Google cloud. Don loves to work abroad wherever a customer needs him and is an avid biker, here he is tackling the Alps!
Jerry Griffith
{Program Manager & Agile Scrum Master}
Michael Jones
{DevOps Engineer}
Aaron Marcks
{Program Manager & Agile Scrum Master}
Product Owner, Solution Architect
Lawrence Ough
{Project Manager}
Eric Paulding
{QA Engineer}
Eddy Valme
{DevOps Engineer}
Justin Venditti
{System Integrator}
& Cloud Integration Engineer, AWS Solution Architect - Associate
John Wang
{System Integrator}
Core Development
Ericsson,a multinational telecommunications innovator, engaged itPODS to support the Ericsson team in Switzerland at one of their top cloud customers, Swisscom. itPODS' background with Ericsson's NFVi as well as experience with cloud and platform automation enabled the team to provide industry-leading solutions to Swisscom, which catapulted their productivity. The platform automation has significantly reduced the effort required to launch new systems while at the same time reducing costs and improving platform performance.