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Boban Petrovic, Toptal Linux system Developer.

Boban Petrovic

Verified Expert in Engineering
13 Years of Experience

Linux System Administrator

In a nine-year-long professional career, working as a Linux System and DevOps engineer for IT companies, Boban has gained significant experience, knowledge, and highly developed skills in the Linux world, including system administration and engineering. He's a proven high performer and has worked in many different environments. Boban is a flexible team member who's willing to work passionately both on team projects and on individual projects.

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Attila Pápai, Freelance Linux system Programmer for Hire.

Attila Pápai

Verified Expert in Engineering
11 Years of Experience

Linux System Administrator

Attila is a Red Hat-certified engineer with 16+ years of experience in the IT industry. He focuses on Linux administration, server automation with Git, Terraform, and Ansible, and command-line and shell programming with Bash and Python. He is experienced with Amazon cloud products such as EC2, RDS, IAM, and ECS and server-side technologies such as Apache and NGINX. Attila enjoys solving problems, improving customer satisfaction, and working effectively within a team with minimal supervision.

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Marius Ducea, Freelance Linux system Engineer.

Marius Ducea

Verified Expert in Engineering
15 Years of Experience

Linux System Administrator

Marius is an accomplished DevOps engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and implementing automated, secure, and reliable systems for companies such as AdMob, Thumbtack, and Zillow. He specializes in DevOps culture building through build, package, and release automation; infrastructure coding on AWS; Kubernetes; Terraform; and configuration management, monitoring, and instrumentation.

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Russell Stuart, Freelance Linux system Programmer for Hire.

Russell Stuart

Verified Expert in Engineering
32 Years of Experience

Linux System Administrator

Russell has enjoyed solving complex problems using software and hardware for decades. He paid his way through university, writing accounting systems for hospitals. Russell then formed a company to develop cash registers, writing the BIOS, the operating system, a distributed database, and networking. After selling the firm, he discovered the open-source and used it to build a computer system covering 20 sites across Australia for a firm that grew into the world's largest employer of mechanics.

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Artem Rodygin, Freelance Linux system Programmer for Hire.

Artem Rodygin

Verified Expert in Engineering
22 Years of Experience

Linux System Administrator

Artem is a Zend Certified PHP developer with over 20 years of experience in web development. Besides being a technical authority, he is very good at communicating complicated issues in a simple way. Artem believes that actions speak louder than words.

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Erhan Sunar, Freelance Linux system Programmer for Hire.

Erhan Sunar

Verified Expert in Engineering
22 Years of Experience

Linux System Administrator

Erhan is a natural-born computer engineer with 20+ years of professional experience developing and optimizing software, hardware, and networks and over a decade spent managing teams, projects, and resources. Fluent in Java and C#, Erhan has developed apps with a variety of languages and can be fluent in any programming language in a few days. Erhan can move with ease between front and back-end developer, DevOps, and system administrator roles.

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Brian Danchilla, Linux system Freelancer.

Brian Danchilla

Verified Expert in Engineering
18 Years of Experience

Linux System Administrator

Brian is a full-stack software developer with over 15 years of experience. Over the past decade, he has run his own consulting business, which provides both cutting edge solutions and legacy system maintenance. Brian strives to write clean, modern, reliable code. Always honing his craft, Brian keeps abreast with the rapidly changing industry.

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Moushegh Amirbekyan, Freelance Linux system Developer for Hire.

Moushegh Amirbekyan

Verified Expert in Engineering
10 Years of Experience

Linux System Administrator

Moushegh is Linux systems and DevOps engineer specializing in cloud-native solutions. He is a scripting enthusiast and experienced system administrator and, at the same time, very passionate about the state of art technologies. Moushegh brings solid experience with large infrastructures, CI/CD, automation, pipelines, and team management.

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Spyros Ligouras, Accomplished Linux system Freelancer.

Spyros Ligouras

Verified Expert in Engineering
20 Years of Experience

Linux System Administrator

With an MSc in distributed systems and computer networks, and more than 10 years of experience as a software engineer, Spyros has the skills to fulfill both engineering and operations roles in demanding large-scale infrastructures.

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Garry Gerber, Linux system Engineer.

Garry Gerber

Verified Expert in Engineering
11 Years of Experience

Linux System Administrator

Garry has several years of IT experience, along with a track record of exceeding expectations. Currently, he works as a DevOps engineer who manages and develops highly available infrastructures of containerized apps, including leading and architecting IT solutions from start to finish. Garry has exemplary interpersonal and communication skills and thrives in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments.

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Andrew Osipov, Accomplished Linux system Freelancer.

Andrew Osipov

Verified Expert in Engineering
14 Years of Experience

Linux System Administrator

Andrew is a highly motivated, versatile, and skilled DevOps and DevSecOps. He's delivered numerous large-scale infrastructure implementations with cost-effective approaches. Andrew excels in high load, availability, and security using AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and Terraform, and implementing infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code approaches. Andrew is also brilliant at managing compliance, security, and company-wide documentation for health and payment data (HIPAA and PCI DSS).

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