Debian Linux Consultant

• Many years of managing systems and solutions based upon Debian
• Extensive use of preseed files to automate the deployment of Debian servers
• Experienced with LXC containers, Networking and ProxMox clusters
• Automation with SaltStack, Ansible and Terraform/OpenTofu

Proxmox Consulting

• Clustered networking with 10/25/100G Mellanox network cards
• use eBGP based EVPN/VxLAN for hardware accelerated networking
• Ceph distributed storage configuration on SSD/NVME drives
• Automated cluster maintenace with SaltStack
• Automated virtual machine and container deployment with Ansible/Terraform/OpenTofu
• Kubernetes management in Talos based enviroment

Sample applications:

• apparition - Home/Office Automation/Monitoring - listens on MQTT topics, uses LuaJIT to decode and respond back via MQTT. Current examples work with ZWave, ZigBee, RTL433, UPS-NUT,... Metrics are emitted to Prometheus for display with Grafana
• nut2mqtt - Communication between Network UPS Tools (NUT) and MQTT
• mqtt2telegram - Takes a topic emitted by nut2mqtt and transmits changes to a Telegram chat

When taking on new projects, we:

• are interested in taking on new projects
• are adept at breaking down intractable problems into achievable pieces and iterating on them
• are curious by nature and love to dig deep on problems, always asking 'Why?'
• communicate in a clear and concise manner, regardless of medium (text, voice, and in-person)
• have strong opinions that are weakly held
• recognize opportunities for process improvement and automation
• write clean, maintainable code

We:

• serve remotely to clients around the world
• provide consulting services for all types of packet delivery and security
• develop software for a variety of interests

Contact us when you need:

• Software Development and Database Management
• Network Security and Internet Connectivity
• Network, Infrastructure and Software Observability