Systems Engineer Intermediate Infrastructure, SolarWinds
Ivan Bravo started out working on computers early, helping out in his grade school back in San Pablo, California maintaining a dozen Apple IIs in the 4th grade during the early 90s. Eventually he would become a mechanic working on domestic vehicles right up to him returning to Seminole State College after changing his major from Aerospace Engineering to Computer Science. An avid PC gamer, he finds working with PC hardware to be rather easy, almost innately flowing to him as he built elaborate PC rigs. During college he picked up many freelance consulting jobs and eventually landed a position in AMD. He’d then go from AMD to Samsung, and quite a few startups going up and down the ladder, ending up at SolarWinds as a Jack-of-all-Trades Infrastructure Engineer.
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