Coffee maxxer, cigar puffer, pipe collector, whiskey enjoyer, music aficionado, solo-travelling bearded one.

Comfortable in hard situations.

Attracted to exotic problems.

Senior generalist.

Every issue is a nail. Open source is my hammer.

There is a place of great evil in the wilderness.

We'll find our sacrifice tomorrow.

...That after we're gone, the spirit carries on.

Skills ======

Servers: HPE, Dell, Lenovo, Supermicro
Operating systems: Windows, Linux, AIX
Virtualization: KVM, Vmware, Xen, Hyper-V
Storage & SAN: HPE, IBM, Brocade, Cisco
Databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB / Mysql, Oracle, MSSQL
Clustering & High Availability: Corosync + Pacemaker, HAProxy
Monitoring: Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti
Observability and instrumentation: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
Containers: Docker, Podman, LXC, Kubernetes
Email: Postfix, Zimbra
VoIP: Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, Kamailio, ViciDIAL, Issabel
Instant messaging: Mattermost, IRC
Videoconferencing: Jitsi
Networking: Linux, Cisco, Fortinet, Mikrotik, Juniper, Aruba, Ubiquiti
Application servers: Tomcat, GlassFish, uWSGI, nginx, apache
Backup: Veeam, Bacula
AI & ML on-premises: ollama, Open WebUI
Data Science: Jupyter, Airflow, Superset, Datasette
Programming (sort of): PHP (Symfony, Laravel), Python (Django), Ruby (on Rails), Javascript (Vue), mobile (Cordova) 
Automation & Orchestration: Ansible, Chef, Terraform
Cloud Infrastructure: Azure, AWS
Electronics: Arduino, Raspberry
3D design: OpenSCAD
Security: metasploit, nmap, sqlmap, nikto, nessus, tor

Certifications ==============

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) v6
Elastix Certified Engineer
Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate