Cloud Engineer & Linux Administrator

The candidate is an experienced consultant with expertise in various operating systems, including FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris. He has a strong background in storage solutions, devops, networking, virtualization, and cloud platforms. The candidate has worked for several companies, including Resulta, Axcient, and DXC Technology, where he has been involved in the design, implementation, and support of IT solutions. He is skilled in various programming languages, such as Unix shell scripting, C, C++, PHP, Perl, and Python. The candidate has extensive knowledge of open-source software, Veritas storage, task automation, and internet and network technologies. He is also proficient in database management, hardware systems, and virtualization technologies. The candidate has worked on numerous projects, including infrastructure design and implementation for corporate websites, smartos cluster implementation, network architecture, and virtualization platform maintenance. He has a strong educational background and is fluent in English.

2020 - onwards: Consultant specializing in FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris solutions architecture and implementation, storage (particularly ZFS-based, Hitachi Data Storage, EMC), DevOps, networking (Cisco, Juniper, IP Praxis, security fundamentals), virtualization (VMware, KVM/QEMU, Hyper-V), monitoring (Zabbix, Icinga/Nagios), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), and automation (SaltStack, Ansible).

2018 - 2020: Consultant, focusing on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, storage (ZFS), and DevOps (primarily FreeBSD and Solaris related).

2017 - 2018: Consultant, responsible for engineering cloud services, Linux system administration (Red Hat, SUSE), high availability (HP Serviceguard), and storage (3PAR).

2016 - 2017: Consultant, working as a maintainer of the Danube Cloud operating system kernel and userland, as well as building Danube Cloud images.

2016: Consultant, designing, implementing, and supporting IT solutions for external customers.

2005 - 2016: Consultant, specializing in architecture, implementation, and support of IT solutions for external customers, with a focus on UNIX (mainly Solaris) and enterprise software (Veritas, Sun/Oracle).

2004 - 2005: HP-UX Support Engineer, responsible for day-to-day routine HP-UX maintenance and patching.

2003: Network and UNIX Administrator, handling various wireless network components, Cisco equipment, and FreeBSD servers.

2000 - 2004: Owner, software developer, and UNIX administrator.

2000 - 2002: ISP Systems Administrator, managing multiple FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris servers, as well as fiber channel and backups.

1999 - 2000: Software developer and Digital UNIX/Linux system administrator.

1997 - 1999: PC technician and network administrator.

Technologies: Experienced in FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris operating systems, VMware ESX, other virtualization technologies (QEMU/KVM, Bhyve, Hyper-V), automation (SaltStack, Ansible), containerization (jails, zones, Podman), Unix shell scripting, C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, open-source software, Veritas Storage Foundation HA, task automation tools (Ansible, Salt), Zabbix, Nagios (Icinga), Cisco IOS, internet applications (Apache, BIND, PowerDNS, FTP servers, mail systems), firewalls (IPF, PF, iptables, NPF), databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase/ASE), Sun Microsystems servers, EMC and Sun Microsystems storage, Hitachi Data Storage.