Greg Stevens, Dalyle DevOps Inc.

"Once you label me, you negate me" -- James E Stirrup

Authentic, creative, unoriginal champion. Mastering excellence day in, day out, to be better at helping others during my life of service. 🕵️‍♀️ Production Troubleshooter, 🦄 DevOps Specialist, 🌐 Full-stack Web Developer, Leader, 🔑 Security Researcher. 👍 Leader 🔁 DevOps Specialist ☁ Architect 🤓 Site Reliability Engineer 🎯 Father 🧔 Diabetic 💉 Lifter 💪

LinkedIn: LinkedIn
@GregWorks
YouTube: YouTube
@GregWorks
Twitter: Twitter
@DalyleDevDevOpsInc
GitHub: GitHub
@GregSweats
Instagram: Instagram
@Diabefit
vCard: vCard
@dalyle.ca/vcard
Website: Website
@art.stevens.pro
YouTube: YouTube
@UltimoPenguin7 Gami...

Work

Dalyle DevOps Inc.

Founder, CEO, Full-stack Web Developer, Hostmaster

Oct 2021 - Present
  • First time truly on my own
  • Over 10 months in business!

Media Dog Productions

IT Director

May 2015 - Oct 2021

Media Dog Productions

Lead Application Developer

Mar 2011 - May 2015

Media Dog Productions

Application Developer

Dec 2004 - Mar 2011

SabreTEC

IT Consultant

Dec 2003 - Dec 2011

Nucleus Information Service Inc

Technical Support

Jan 2002 - Dec 2004

Education

LinkedIn

Top Percentiles Skill Assessments in the World

Jun 2011 - Jan 2014

Dale Carnegie

Course in Personal Growth, Business Skills, Public Speaking

Jun 2011 - Jan 2014

Volunteer

Quest for a Better Web Industry #BetterWeb

Founder

Jul 2019 - Present
  • Identified Problems with Current Web Industry Practices in Calgary, and Globally.

100% RAW Powerlifting Federation Canada

Weight Loading/Deloading, Platform Spotter, Motivator, Clown 🤡

Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
  • Loading/Unloading Weights
  • Yelling appropriately at Lifters as they approach the Platform for their attempt

JDRF Canada

Ambassador, Walk to Cure Diabetes, Community Outreach

Jul 2004 - Present
  • 2001: Family Participation at JDRF Walk for the Cure
  • 2004: Start Helping Those Who Help Me, the JDRF
  • 2011: Son Diagnosed @ 3 Years Old - Both Active JDRF Ambassadors, Public Speakers

Awards

🥈 Provincial Skills Competition (2nd)

Skills Canada, Alberta

May 2004

Web Design & Development

🖼 Adobe Certified ColdFusion MX Developer (Advanced)

Adobe

Mar 2007

"Advanced" Certification Surprise Extra for Exceeding a Certain Score

🥇 Peak Power Open (1st)

RAW-CAN

Oct 2015

Squat 175 | Bench 110 | Deadlift 195 | Total 480 Kg

🥉 Prairie Power Open (3rd)

RAW-CAN

Jan 2016

Squat 192.5 | Bench 120 | Deadlift 230 | Total 542.5 Kg

🥈 Prairie Power Open (2nd)

RAW-CAN

Mar 2017

Squat 205 | Bench 120 | Deadlift 232.5 | Total 557.5 Kg

🥇 Alberta Provincials (1st)

RAW-CAN

May 2018

Squat 220 | Bench 135 | Deadlift 240 | Total 595 Kg

🥇 Hub Power Open (1st)

RAW-CAN

Apr 2019

Squat 212.5 | Bench 135 | Deadlift 232.5 | Total 580 Kg

🥈 World Championships (2nd)

RAW

Oct 2019

Squat 212.5 | Bench 127.5 | Deadlift 230 | Total 570 Kg

🥇🥈🥉 LinkedIn Skill Assesments - Ranked Top Globally in a Dozen Assessments

RAW

Oct 2019

Squat 212.5 | Bench 127.5 | Deadlift 230 | Total 570 Kg

References

...really knows his 💩...
Business Analyst, Multi-Billion Dollar Corporation, 2021
Does the work of a dozen people! 👷‍♂️
IT Manager, Corporate Client, 2021
Success requires aggressive pursuit, bold action, passion, fire, and most of all, perserverence. You must know your Identity... 🎤
Billy Alsbrooks, Song: 'Blessed', 2020 (quoted, not a reference).
📢 "KAIZEN means improvement. Moreover, it means continuing improvement in personal life, home life, social life, and working life."
QUOTE from Masaaki Imai, Founder of Kaizen Institute on www.kaizen.com; (quoted, not a reference).

Publications

Transactionator (TRXN8R)

GitHub

Jun 2022

Greg's First Open Source Project for the Tiller 2022 Builder Challenge - 'Performance Art' - The Trippy T-Rex Bulk CSV Importer/Transformer/Deduplicator; for the TillerHQ.com 2022 MS Excel Challenge; Better than my resume for Tiller Sr. Engineering Job 😱

Savvy-Student-Stats / powerbi-moodle-data-source

GitHub

Feb 2021

Using the Moodle web service, we extract Course and Grade info to feed into Power BI for pretty reports and AI insights! #ProofOfConcept #WIP

Languages

English ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Markdown ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
ColdFusion ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
PHP ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
HTML, CSS, etc. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
HTTP(S), APIs ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Power Query / M ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
(My|MS) SQL ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
NoSQL ⭐⭐⭐⭐
JavaScript ⭐⭐⭐⭐
GraphQL ⭐⭐⭐
TypeScript ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Perl (hobby use) ⭐⭐⭐
R (new) ⭐
Rust (upcoming) ⭐

Skills

🙋‍♀️ Why Greg?

🧙‍♂️ Greybeard Level
🐧 23+ Years Linux, WebDev
💼 18+ Web Agency Years
🎹 ~130 WPM, Great Docs
🙌 Agile Lifestyle, Kaizen
🏋️‍♀️ Natural Leader
🤓 Pragmatic Power User
👷‍♂️ Processes & Workflows
🤗 Resilent Teammate

💪 Powerlifting Competition Bests

🧒 Intermediate Level
⚖ ~220 lbs Body Weight
Squat: 485 lbs
Bench: 297.6 lbs
Deadlift: 529.1 lbs
Total: 1,311.7 lbs
Total Dots: 366.39

✅ Testing & QA Automation

🐱‍💻 Master Level
🥇 Insomnia REST/HTTP Tool
E2E Testing
TestCafe
Cypress
Puppeteer
Playwright

💯 Top 5% Globally on 7️⃣ LinkedIn Assesments

🧙‍♂️ Greybeard Level
HTML / 1.1 M
IT Operations / 944.9 K
Microsoft Outlook / 1.3 M
MySQL / 674.6 K
PHP / 2.9 M
WordPress / 1.0 M
XML / 217.9 K

💯 Top 15% Globally on 2️⃣ LinkedIn Assesments

🤯 Expert Level
🐧 Linux / 4.2M
📊 Microsoft Power BI / 600.1k

💯 Top 30% Globally on 4️⃣ LinkedIn Assesments

🤵 Pro Level
CSS / 1.6M
Cybersecurity / 824.4k
Git / 971.5k
REST APIs / 485.3k

🐧 Linux

🧙‍♂️ Greybeard Level
🥇 Linux Sys Admin
Ubuntu
Manjaro KDE Desktop
Kali Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
CentOS 5-8
Ubuntu Gnome Desktop

🔐 Security

🐱‍💻 Master Level
Kali Linux
Pen Testing
OWASP ZAP!

🎓 Knowledge Mgmt & Documentation

💼 Pro Level
🥇 Markdown
Obsidian
Notion
Evernote
TickTick
TickTick

🎓 Collaboration Tools

💼 Pro Level
🥇 Jira
Jira Service Management
Confluence
Atlassian (Platform)
Asana
Wrike

💻 I.T.

🧙‍♂️ Greybeard Level
🥇 Office 365, Azure
Consulting
Contracting
Directing
Mentoring
Processes
Linux
Windows
macOS

⛅ Cloud MSP

🧙‍♂️ Greybeard Level
🥇 DigitalOcean
Linode
Azure
AWS
Vultr
WHC
Google Compute
Google Workspace

🔀 Agile Methodologies

💼 Pro Level
Agile Budgeting Techniques
Agile Estimation Techniques & Scales (T-Shirt, Primes, Fibonicci, etc.)
Agile Methodologies
Time Tracking, Estimation, Budgeting
Selling Ideas and $$$ to Stakeholders
Kanban
Lean
Scrum
Hybrid Agile Waterfall
SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
User Stories
Estimation, Tracking, Budgeting

🔁 DevOps

💼 Pro Level
DevOps
Git
GitHub
Bitbucket
GitLab
DevOps Architecture
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Kaizen

🤖 Automation

💼 Pro Level
GH Actions
MS Power Automate
Bitbucket Pipelines
Ansible
Terraform
Shell Scripts

📊 Business Intelligence

Microsoft Powerapps
Microsoft Power Automate
Microsoft Power BI
Cube - Headless BI
Google Data
Google Analytics, Tag Manager, etc.

🌐 Modern Content Management Systems

🤯 Expert Level
Headless CMS
Jamstack
Static Site Generators (SSG)
Hugo, 11ty, Jekyll, Mkdocs, etc.
Resumed SSG
Statamic CMS
TinaCMS

📝 Legacy Content Management Systems (CMS)

🤯 Expert Level
Conductor CMS - Proprietary ColdFusion CMS
Concrete5
WordPress
Joomla
Drupal

👷‍♂️ Full-stack Web Dev (💄 Front-end)

🧙‍♂️ Greybeard Level
Full-Stack Development
Web Project Management
Websites
HTML5 / xHTML
CSS
Node.js
Laravel
ColdFusion, Lucee
Web Apps
Websites
JavaScript
TypeScript
jQuery

👷‍♀️ Full-stack Web Dev (🥼 Back-end)

🧙‍♂️ Greybeard Level
Full-Stack Development
Web Project Management
Web Applications
APIs
REST
Web Services
XML
PHP
Continuous Improvement
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
SQL
JSON

🖥 Web Hosting Services

🧙‍♂️ Greybeard Level
Email Hosting
Web Hosting
Apache
Nginx
LiteSpeed / OLS

✅ Web Project Management

💼 Pro Level
Agile
DevOps
Agile / Traditional Hybrid
SAFe
Scrum
Estimation
Project Budget
Time Tracking

📜 The Big List of Keywords

_(Sorry, here for Applicant Tracking Systems)_ Level
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
People Skills
Conflict Resolution
MySQL
MongoDB
(L|W)AMP
LAMP
WAMP
MEAN
Decentralized CMS
Decentrailzed DB
Headless CMS

Interests

Wildlife

Bearded Dragons
My Teenage Son
Sun

Automotive

Stereos, SPLs
Oil Changes
Fuel Tanks
Fuel Pumps
Oil Pans
Radiators
Body Repair & Replacements

Home Building & Renos

Garage Building
Permits
Electrical
HVAC
Networking
Fibre
Landscaping
Drywalling
Finishing
Painting, Cupboards, Furniture
😱 it doesn't stop..let it stop..please...help me!