Ralph Bankston

Ralph Bankston has a diverse work experience spanning over 17 years. Their most recent position was as a Customer Reliability Engineer at Isovalent starting in June 2023. Prior to that, they worked at Astronomer from January 2021 to June 2023, where they held the roles of Senior Customer Reliability Engineer and Staff Customer Reliability Engineer. Ralph also worked as a Lead Technical Support Engineer at Zinier from June 2020 to January 2021.

Before that, Ralph worked at VMware as a Customer Reliability Engineer from November 2018 to June 2020, and as a Senior Technical Support Engineer from December 2018 to their departure. Ralph was also a Customer Reliability Engineer at Heptio from August 2017 to December 2018.

Prior to that, Ralph held multiple roles at Engine Yard, including US Support Manager from September 2015 to August 2017, US West Team Lead and Application Support Engineer from October 2012 to September 2015, and Application Support Engineer from June 2012 to October 2012.

Before joining Engine Yard, Ralph worked as a Network Administrator at Liquid Web from May 2011 to July 2012. Previously, they served as an Escalations Systems Administrator at Liquidweb from June 2008 to May 2011, and as a System Administrator at Liquid Web from December 2007 to June 2008.

Ralph's career began at CoreComm, where they worked in the Help Desk position from an unspecified start date in 2006 to an unspecified end date in 2007.

Ralph Bankston has a diverse education history. In 2023, they completed the Grand Circus Full Stack Developer Program. Prior to that, in 2011, they attended the Networking and Security Academy at Lansing Community College. In 2007, Ralph also attended Lansing Community College, where they studied Horticulture.

In addition to their educational background, Ralph has obtained several certifications. In 2019, they became a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer through the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). In 2018, Ralph acquired the Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification, also through the CNCF. Back in 2012, they obtained the CCNA certification from Cisco Systems. It is worth noting that Ralph's Additional Certifications list includes the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification, but no details regarding the month and year of its acquisition are provided.