IT creation / Databalance (2017 - 2026)
🐧 Linux and Infrastructure Engineer & Team Lead Link to heading
🎯 Key Responsibilities Link to heading
Trusted as the go-to engineer for a fleet of 100+ Linux systems across a wide range of enterprise environments. I designed, built, and kept alive the infrastructure that mattered most — containerized platforms, loadbalancers, and database systems — while leading network transformation and security projects clients could actually depend on.
🛠️ Technical Expertise Link to heading
- Linux Systems Administration Deep, daily-driver experience across Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, Oracle Linux, and openSUSE.
- Infrastructure Automation Ansible for configuration management and repeatable, drift-free deployments.
- Containerization & Orchestration Docker/Podman in production, Kubernetes clusters (K3s, RHEL OCP) run and maintained end-to-end.
- Load Balancing & Web Services HAProxy, NGINX, and Traefik — tuned and hardened, not just installed.
- Database Management MySQL and PostgreSQL (cluster) administration.
- CI/CD Pipelines GitOps workflows built with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Forgejo/Gitea Actions and Drone/WoodpeckerCI.
- Virtualization VMware vSphere at scale, Proxmox hyperconverged infrastructure on Ceph.
- Security Web application firewalling with OpenAppSec and ModSecurity.
- Programming Bash (intermediate), Python(intermediate), Golang (junior).
💪 Core Competencies Link to heading
- Multi-distribution Linux, at depth.
- Infrastructure as Code with Ansible.
- Container orchestration and microservices architecture.
- High-availability load balancing.
- Database configuration and maintenance.
- Security-first infrastructure design.