Gene Liverman

@geneliverman
Doing geeky stuff @ Puppet by Perforce
Carrollton, Georgia
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Windows

MacOS

Linux

Eagle Scout

Home Automator

Mechanical Keyboard Enthusiast

Kubernetes

Church Technologist

Cloud enthusiast

System Administrator

Open Source

Windows Server Administrator

Automation Enthusiast

DNS Expert

WordPress

Blogger

DevOps

Operations

University Graduate

I am a seasoned technology professional with a passion for systems administration and the DevOps culture. I’m also a church technologist and sound engineer. In all cases, I am always searching for a better way to accomplish a task or to solve a problem.

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May 2022 - Present

Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Puppet

Apr 2019 - Present

District Committee , Boy Scouts of America

Sep 2022 - Present

Podcast Host, Volunteer Technologist

May 2021 - May 2022

Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Puppet

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Teaching Kids and Building Products with Tom Rossi

New Website & October Newsletter

I just published the trailer for Volunteer Technologist, my new podcast about all the ways those of us who are technically inclined volunteer our skills. https://www.volunteertechnologist.com/blog/...

I’m currently porting our district website to an entirely different kind of Hugo theme call Doks. It has been an interesting experience thus far because Hugo has evolved quite a bit since I last pu...

Roles I've held

Excited to join the staff at FBC as our Technology Administrator! To be clear, I haven’t left Puppet. I have volunteered as part of my church’s technology team since before there was a team doing e...

Podcasts I’ve spoken on

Engineered Reform with RJ Hill

I was part of the Beaker's past, present and future episode of Puppet’s Pulling the Strings podcast. Check it out at https://puppet.com/podcasts/beakers-past-present-and-future Pull the episode int...

I was part of the The best of the rest of Puppetize PDX episode of Puppet’s Pulling the Strings podcast. https://puppet.com/podcasts/the-best-of-the-rest-of-puppetize-pdx You can easily pull the ep...

Hear about some of the ways I’ve automated my home on the episode of Home Assistant Podcast released today entitled Gene’s automated “on-air” light. It was an honor to get to share my story and a l...

My 2021 Highlights

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A couple of weeks ago I switched from KDE to Gnome on my work computer and think I finally have a setup I will stick with for a good long while. I absolutely hate stock Gnome, but with the right ex...

A computer I built in May of 2013 for my parents has now been upgraded from Windows 10 to Pop_OS! Dad is really happy with the new setup too! One of the cool thins about using Linux is that it can ...

I created a new repository called vmpooler-deployment that contains Dockerfiles and a Helm chart that can be used to deploy VMPooler. The DIO team at Puppet uses the code here as part of operating ...

Today marks a big day in the history of the VMPooler application: the code that allows using vSphere as a source of machines was extracted from the main application into its own repository and gem....

Things I’ve built

I finished putting together an IoT device to help us know when the dryer is finished. It runs ESPHome and monitors the temperature in the vent hose and reports it to Home Assistant.

Tonight I built my first smart light by combining an ESP8266 controller with a strip of WS2812B LEDs. The controller came preloaded with Tasmota so integration into Home Assistant was a snap. That ...

Articles and blogs

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Pi in the Fire Service with Jesse Brennan

How the Volunteer Technologist podcast is made

I just published the September 2022 edition of the Indian Springs District Newsletter “Wanna build a catapult? You can at our camporee. Check out our latest #newsletter for details on this, trainin...

I just published the August 2022 edition of the Indian Springs District newsletter! “With one month of summer left, our district isn't slowing down even a little! In fact, you can even set sail wit...