Profile
Jake Wells
Columbus, Ohio
> Infrastructure engineer for esports production.
I focus on software-defined infrastructure for live esports in permanent studios and temporary event deployments, combining immutable hosts, container platforms, and automation with reliability-focused operations to help teams deliver faster and run more confidently. My background covers enterprise virtualization, Linux fleets, and networks across commercial and public sector development and production environments.
Links
Professional profiles.
Skills
Practice areas, and the systems and tools behind them.
Practice Areas
Systems and Platforms
Automation and Tooling
Network, Monitoring, and Backup
Experience
Roles across infrastructure, operations, and live event delivery.
> Event IT Technical Specialist
ESL FACEIT Group · June 2025 - Present
Operate the immutable and virtualized platforms behind live esports broadcasts — Proxmox, MicroOS, Docker, and K3s. Build Leap Micro edge servers into flypacks, the portable production kits that travel to each venue, for on-site compute and storage. Administer studio and event networks on Juniper and pfSense, with ZTNA for remote access.Projects
Steelwood CaaS Platform ·2025 - Present
Designed and built a hybrid-cloud container platform on immutable hosts, making event environments reproducible and deployable from version-controlled definitions.
netpack ·2026 - Present
Python CLI for on-site network diagnostics at live events: layer-1 checks, discovery, path testing, and evidence collection.
Events
BlizzCon 2026
Anaheim Convention Center
Call of Duty League (CDL) Championship 2026
Michelob Ultra Arena
DreamHack Atlanta 2026
Georgia World Congress Center
> System Administrator
City of Columbus - Department of Technology · June 2023 - June 2025
Administered VMware Cloud Foundation and a RHEL fleet of 60-100 systems with Ansible and Satellite. Configured datacenter hardware and software in a Tier III facility, and wrote the automation and runbooks behind production operations.> Technical Operations Lead
Boss Display Corp. · November 2022 - April 2023
Owned the software and hardware lifecycle for a multi-site engineering operation, including uptime monitoring and support. Replaced aging virtualization infrastructure with disaggregated HCI, and established the security, backup, and disaster recovery practices behind it.Projects
Jupiter HCI Platform ·2022 - 2023
Migrated infrastructure to a disaggregated hyperconverged design on XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra, separating compute from storage, with SD-WAN and VDI across multiple sites.
> System Administrator, NetOps Specialist
Central Tech, UberData Networks · January 2021 - January 2022
Installed, configured, and maintained client systems, handling patching, backups, and recovery planning. Implemented network security controls and supported subcontracted NetOps delivery for UberData Networks.> Technical Lead, Founding Member
Novallier Ltd. · January 2020 - Present (concurrent)
Lead technical architecture and system design across development and production environments. Enforce engineering standards and processes, and coordinate cross-functional delivery with clients and stakeholders.Projects
FoxPath DRS ·2020 - 2022
Built automation for dental radiation safety compliance, cutting documentation turnaround by up to 10×. The work later became a SaaS product.
> Web Administrator
3C Technology Solutions · June 2017 - December 2019
Developed and maintained web applications, and administered the web servers and databases behind them. Optimized performance and strengthened security and recovery practices for production web systems.
Certifications
Formal training and vendor credentials.
> Linux Networking and Administration
The Linux Foundation · 2019
> DevOps for Network Engineers
The Linux Foundation · 2020
> JumpCloud Core Certification
JumpCloud · 2021