Lightspeed Systems
Chris Newkirk is an experienced Site Reliability Engineer and Systems Engineer at Lightspeed Systems since December 2004, specializing in the building, maintenance, and monitoring of network infrastructure for various SaaS applications. Chris has expertise in a range of systems and services, including PostgreSQL, MySql, MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Postfix, Nginx, Apache, HAProxy, and Icinga, and has contributed to automation through the development of Chef cookbooks for configuring virtual servers. Prior to this role, Chris served as a Financial Services Representative at Union Bank from 2002 to 2004. Chris holds an Associate of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from San Joaquin Valley College-Bakersfield, earned between 2002 and 2004.
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Lightspeed Systems
Since 1999, Lightspeed Systems has provided smart solutions for school networks, working to make learning safe, mobile and easily managed. With their K12 school partners, they have helped protect and engage more than 10 million students around the world. They work diligently and intelligently as a team to create innovative solutions and better ways of doing things. Every day, every employee has an opportunity to change the world in the most meaningful way: by improving education. Lightspeed Systems has the mentality of a start-up (collaboration, access, innovation) with the stability of a company that’s been around since 1999 — and they get bigger and smarter every day.