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Marius Ducea

Freelance Linux System Administrator
Verified Expert in Engineering
UTC-06:00
United States
Toptal Member Since July 24, 2020

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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Brian Danchilla

Freelance Linux System Administrator
Verified Expert in Engineering
UTC-06:00
Canada
Toptal Member Since December 17, 2013

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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Boban Petrovic

Freelance Linux System Administrator
Verified Expert in Engineering
UTC-05:00
United States
Toptal Member Since April 20, 2017

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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Spyros Ligouras

Freelance Linux System Administrator
Verified Expert in Engineering
UTC+02:00
Greece
Toptal Member Since January 28, 2019

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

Freelance Linux System Administrator
Verified Expert in Engineering
UTC+02:00
Israel
Toptal Member Since January 29, 2020

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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Erhan Sunar

Freelance Linux System Administrator
Verified Expert in Engineering
UTC+03:00
Turkey
Toptal Member Since June 30, 2020

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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Andrew Osipov

Freelance Linux System Administrator
Verified Expert in Engineering
UTC+03:00
Russia
Toptal Member Since January 5, 2021

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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Moushegh Amirbekyan

Freelance Linux System Administrator
Verified Expert in Engineering
UTC+04:00
Armenia
Toptal Member Since June 28, 2020

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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Russell Stuart

Freelance Linux System Administrator
Verified Expert in Engineering
UTC+10:00
Australia
Toptal Member Since December 2, 2021

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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Attila Pápai

Freelance Linux System Administrator
Verified Expert in Engineering
UTC+12:00
New Zealand
Toptal Member Since November 12, 2021

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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Artem Rodygin

Freelance Linux System Administrator
Verified Expert in Engineering
UTC+12:00
New Zealand
Toptal Member Since February 17, 2022

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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