Brandon Hang

Visalia, CA | brandon-v-hang | 559-300-9564 | brandonvhang@gmail.com | brandhang.net

Work Experience


Client Platform Engineer Oct 2023 - Present

Crystal Equation Corporation @ Meta Remote

Systems Administrator Jul 2022 - Oct 2023

California State University, Fresno Fresno, CA

  • Administered on-campus identity information systems customizing directory services such as LDAP, Windows Active Directory, and Google Apps using SSH command line and GUI interface to meet the 20,000+ student and staff needs.
  • Optimized incoming ticket operations by leveraging scripting and automation techniques, resulting in a 40% reduction in time and resources allocated to manual processes, improving efficiency and productivity.
  • Strengthened security measures by patching 150+ Windows and Linux machines hosted on VMware, bare-metal, and AWS using Microsoft SCCM and AWS Systems Manager, resulting in a 90% increase in overall system security.
  • Initiated the implementation of CI/CD pipelines, streamlining evaluation of AWS cloud formation templates; achieved 95% reduction in potential errors, and maintained infrastructure consistency.
  • Field Operation Technician May 2021 - Jul 2022

    California State University, Fresno Fresno, CA

  • Configured server-side equipment such as network switches, UPS systems, firewalls, patch panels, and fabricated Cat 6 cables across multiple independent distribution frames throughout the campus, ensuring optimal network performance.
  • Validated network access for 500+ on-campus devices, adhering to the campus network connection policy by activating or deactivating a data port and implementing VLAN changes.
  • Addressed complex networking issues, utilizing network monitoring tools and collaboration with network engineers, resulting in improved device communication, minimized downtime, and completed 80% of incoming tickets.
  • Projects


    AWS Serverless CI/CD Portfolio
  • Built a secure static portfolio website hosted on Amazon S3, utilizing SSL certificates, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for front-end development, providing a minimal user experience.
  • Deployed a serverless architecture using Amazon DynamoDB, Lambda functions, API Gateway, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by 75% and increasing website availability by 99.9%.
  • Three-tier WordPress Web Application
  • Designed a scalable and highly available WordPress web application on AWS by configuring VPC, EC2 instances, NAT Gateways, RDS databases, Load Balancers, Route 53 DNS, Auto Scaling group, certificate manager, and EFS.
  • Leveraged CloudFormation, resulting in a 20% improvement in consistency and a 50% reduction in deployment time.
  • Home lab server
  • Designed and maintained a virtualized home lab using Proxmox and TrueNAS, hosting 10+ VMs for web servers, databases, CI/CD pipelines and network shares.
  • Configured a self-hosted highly available Kubernetes cluster to deploy containerized applications with 99% uptime.
  • Implemented a pfSense firewall, DNS Server and VLANs for network segmentation, enhancing security and traffic management.
  • Education


    California State University, Fresno Aug 2019 - May 2023

    BS in Information Engineering Technology (GPA: 3.75) Fresno, CA

  • Organizations/Awards: Dean’s Honors List, Magna Cum Laude
  • Additional


    Technical: Operating systems, VMWare, Networking, Security, Golang, Python, Bash Scripting, HTML/CSS, SQL, CI/CD Pipeline, AWS, Git, Ansible, Cloudformation, Terraform

    Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Associate (June 2023), AWS Cloud Practitioner (July 2022)