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Jonathan Gaffers

Jonathan Gaffers

Technical Support Engineer

32 years old
Consultant Available
Level 3 IT Engineer with 10+ years of experience in the web hosting and cloud space. Excellent soft-skills and a great communicator with top-tier technical aptitude.
  • Responsible for providing chat & phone support for large enterprise customers concerning Cloudflare's suite of CDN, DNS, WAF, Security, & SASE (Zero Trust) products.
  • Service $100M+ clients over P0 bridges and answer urgent inbound support requests over dedicated emergency line.
  • Extensive use of command-line utilities like MTR, traceroute, dig, curl as part of network troubleshooting.
  • Run SQL queries against Clickhouse, with Grafana and Kibana dashboards.
  • Owned internal and external communications during high-severity outages, directly managing status page updates and coordinating cross-functional engineering resources for the support team.
  • Customized AI workflows to improve personal efficiency handling complex cases using OpenCode and Windsurf.
  • Responsible for monitoring customer contacts from seasoned agents as well as new hires while adhering to SLAs.
  • Serve as a first escalation point amongst our support swarm for the entire team.
  • Serve as first contact point for high revenue clients seeking assistance with emergency service down issues and trouble tickets.
  • Process incoming tickets from L1 and L2 queues as needed.
  • Perform WordPress Optimizations on client websites when we are contacted about slow performance on our platform.
  • Onboarded and mentored 2 new support agents to the web hosting infrastructure while acting as the tier-2 escalation point for high-priority tickets, live chats, and phone calls..
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  • Handle incoming support tickets, and phone calls from web hosting clients.
  • Recognize and analyze support trends & escalate emerging issues appropriately.
  • Troubleshoot cPanel, Apache/Litespeed, MySQL, & PHP.
  • Resolve issues related to IMAP, POP, SMTP, FTP, DNS & HTTP. Assist Windows hosting clients with Plesk, MSSQL, and IIS.
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