Adrian Roseboom, Network and Security Lead
Adrian Roseboom serves as the Network and Security Lead at QIP. Adrian provides in-depth troubleshooting and long-term architectural planning for the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Institute of Education Sciences virtual data center hosted in Amazon AWS. His experience in various network and web hosting technologies, along with three decades of experience in federal government contracting, are a valued resource.
Throughout his career, he has worked to understand all the pieces involved from client to database at each step of the process, from the original design requirements to enhancements needed in the future. Keeping in mind future iterations of the architecture allows the design to be flexible enough to add modernizations later.
Adrian has also worked to understand all of the steps in each connection, from client request through to the back end database query. This wide perspective also includes visualizing how systems evolve over time, building in flexibility to allow the integration of new capabilities years later.
“It is not only important to continue to learn about your role , but also to understand enough of the job of the next person in line so that passing along tasks becomes not only efficient but friendly. Over time, this can lead to becoming the subject matter expert (SME) in new areas and helps immeasurably in locating that one small root cause in the hay stack.”
Adrian began in federal contracting as a graphic artist for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the early stages of the internet, just as it was beginning to support images. This role quickly expanded to website layout design, content organization, application development, and finally, web hosting. From there, he served as a Unix System Administrator for ED managing public web servers and developing applications in Coldfusion, as well as providing end-to-end support for hosted web applications. Adrian designed and implemented a new web server architecture using F5 load balancers and virtualized Solaris servers. After maintaining public Domain Name System (DNS) entries for several years, he also became ED’s DNS SME, where he designed and implemented a DNSSEC compliant public DNS system for the entire department using Bluecat appliances.