superMaru

My name is Macky Ruiz. I have been working on lab and IT infrastructure for roughly 9 years. Currently I work for a great startup company, which I joined early in 2013. Under my watch i’ve seen the infrastructure and lab grow from 1 rack to 39 racks which spread out in two data centers and supported the company from originally 20 to 160 employees.

Prior to my current role, I was a Lab Systems Administrator at large networking company, supporting a routing and switching business unit. Before that I worked for a startup (then acquired in 2010) that developed and produced specialized broadcast equipment such as video routing, server and storage products for companies that produce, process and distribute video content for the television and internet. I worked as a Lab administrator supporting 100+ racks, US and India based Engineers.

I originally graduated with a degree in Graphics Design, but made a career change into the technology world. My career turn a early 180 degree turn after college once I had gotten an internship for a gigapixel project through CMU and worked on-site at NASA AMES Research Center. Surrounded by great people, I was simply at awe. I knew absolutely nothing about Linux and thought computer networking was black magic wizardry. I’ve pushed myself to learn as much as possible and a lot of my learning came from reading forums and stumbling on tech blogs like this.

Now after almost 10 years in the industry, I feel I can finally give back to the world wide web and help somehow with the content I provide.

On my spare time I enjoy wandering the great outdoors and taking photographs (Shameless promotion: www.mackyruiz.com).