Terrac Skiens
About Terrac Skiens
Terrac Skiens is a Sr. Devops Engineer at Hyperscience with extensive experience in managing web-scale services and advanced skills in Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms, and Google Cloud services.
Current Role at Hyperscience
Terrac Skiens is currently employed as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Hyperscience, a position he has held since 2022. He operates out of Oakland, California, in this role. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, he focuses on managing infrastructure, automating workflows, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of services provided by Hyperscience.
Previous Experience at Quizlet
Before joining Hyperscience, Terrac Skiens worked at Quizlet from 2018 to 2022. Initially, he served as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), and later, as a Senior Traffic Engineering SRE. During his tenure at Quizlet, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, he was involved in ensuring the performance and reliability of Quizlet’s web-scale services and infrastructure.
Professional Background
Terrac Skiens has an extensive background in system administration and site reliability engineering. He has worked for prestigious companies including Apple, YouTube, and Google. At Apple, he served as an SRE for nearly a year. Prior to that, he was a Systems Administrator and Automation Engineer at YouTube for four years. His roles at Google included Systems Administrator and Operations Technician, where he worked for a cumulative seven years.
Expertise in Tools and Technologies
Terrac Skiens possesses advanced expertise in several key technologies and tools. He is skilled in Kubernetes management on both bare metal and Google Cloud. He is also proficient in CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitLab, Argo CD, CloudBuild, and CircleCI. Additionally, he utilizes CloudFlare DNS, Analytics, and Workers for CDN and edge computing solutions.
Educational Background
Terrac Skiens completed his high school education in Computer Science at Thomas Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon, graduating in 1994. His solid educational foundation in computer science principles has greatly contributed to his professional capabilities and expertise in the field of infrastructure operations and software engineering.