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I help companies deploy, upgrade, automate, and troubleshoot OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Ceph environments. With 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, Linux administration, and automation, I have worked with global organizations including Rackspace, Ericsson, Red Hat, Nokia, and telecom/cloud service providers supporting large-scale production environments. I specialize in designing reliable, scalable, and production-ready cloud platforms while solving complex infrastructure challenges across compute, networking, storage, and automation layers. ## What I Can Help You With ✅ OpenStack deployment, upgrades, migrations, and troubleshooting ✅ Kolla-Ansible, RHOSP, TripleO, CloudBand, and private cloud implementations ✅ Ceph storage deployment, integration, optimization, and troubleshooting ✅ Kubernetes and OpenShift deployments on OpenStack ✅ Infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Python, and GitLab CI/CD ✅ Bare Metal provisioning with Ironic and OpenStack ✅ Linux administration, performance tuning, and production support ✅ Cloud migrations and disaster recovery planning ## Recent Project Highlights ✔ Automated inter-cloud and inter-tenant VM migrations using Python OpenStack SDK ✔ Built HA OpenStack and Ceph environments using Terraform and Ansible ✔ Managed and supported enterprise OpenStack platforms for telecom and cloud providers ✔ Deployed Kubernetes clusters integrated with OpenStack networking and load balancing ✔ Performed OpenStack upgrades, patching, and production troubleshooting for mission-critical environments ✔ Designed CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure deployment and operational workflows ✔ Integrated Ceph storage with OpenStack for highly available cloud platforms ## Technology Stack OpenStack • Ceph • Kubernetes • OpenShift • Kolla-Ansible • TripleO • RHOSP • Ironic • Terraform • Ansible • Python • Bash • Docker • GitLab CI • Jenkins • Prometheus • Grafana • ELK • Linux • KVM • Proxmox ## Why Clients Hire Me 🔹 Strong production troubleshooting expertise 🔹 Deep understanding of OpenStack internals and cloud architecture 🔹 Automation-first approach that reduces operational overhead 🔹 Experience supporting enterprise and telecom-scale deployments 🔹 Focus on clean, documented, and maintainable solutions Whether you need an OpenStack cloud deployed from scratch, assistance with a Ceph storage issue, Kubernetes integration, infrastructure automation, or help resolving a critical production incident, I can quickly contribute and deliver results.

System Administrator I work with virtualization, self-hosted services, storage and backups and on-premise cloud infrastructure. 🔹 Areas of Expertise: Virtualization 🔹 Proxmox HA clusters with Ceph storage for redundancy and scalability. 🔹 FreeBSD with vm-bhyve hypervisor. 🔹 XCP-ng. Networking & VPNs 🔹 Setting up and managing MikroTik and pfSense firewalls. 🔹 Configuring Wireguard and OpenVPN solutions for remote access across businesses. 🔹 GL-iNet travel routers for Digital Nomad VPN solutions. Self-Hosting & Custom Server Solutions 🔹 Managing self-hosted applications like Nextcloud, Seafile, and WordPress and others. 🔹 Configuring Nginx and Apache servers for web hosting. NAS & Storage Solutions 🔹 Setting up and managing TrueNAS, Synology, and Unraid. 🔹 Configuring ZFS-based storage solutions for redundancy and performance. 🔹 Implementing NFS, and SMB shares. Storage & Backup Strategies 🔹 Implementing Rsync, Rclone, and Syncthing for data synchronization and backups. 🔹 Managing ZFS-based storage for redundancy and backup. Remote Access & Virtual Desktop. 🔹Apache Guacamole, KasmVNC, NoMachine. Cloud 🔹 Working with AWS and Oracle Cloud. Technical Expertise: 🔹 Operating Systems: FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian. 🔹 Virtualization & Containers: Proxmox, vm-bhyve, XCP-ng, Docker. 🔹 Networking & Security: MikroTik, pfSense, WireGuard, OpenVPN. 🔹 NAS & Storage: TrueNAS, Synology, Unraid, ZFS, NFS, SMB. 🔹 Storage & Backups: TrueNAS, Synology, Unraid, Rsync, ZFS. 🔹 Web & Cloud Services: Nginx, Apache, AWS, Oracle Cloud.

System Engineer/ Cisco engineer for 10 years now. Proxmox master proffieciency and deploying Ceph clusters Linux master usage- Ubuntu,Centos,Gentoo Worked on administration of Windows machines from Xp to 10 now. NAS intermediate proficiency(QNAP expert, Synology and FreeNAS/Openmediavault intermediate) Cisco stenghts: Wireless(controller and access points), Voice(Callmanager,CallCenter, H.323 voice gateways), routing and switching(L3VPN,VLANs), security(ASA configuration)

🔐 Wazuh SIEM specialist and SOC engineer with hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and managing security monitoring infrastructure for enterprise environments. I help businesses detect threats, respond to incidents, and maintain secure, high-availability IT infrastructure across Linux and Windows systems. Whether you need a Wazuh SIEM deployed from scratch, SIEM alert tuning, endpoint security hardening, or full SOC operations support. I deliver production-ready solutions, not just configurations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡 SECURITY & SIEM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Wazuh SIEM – Full deployment, agent onboarding, custom rules & decoders ✔ Log Management & Analysis – Syslog, Windows Event Logs, CEF/JSON ingestion ✔ Threat Detection & Incident Response – Alert triage, IR documentation, root cause analysis ✔ Endpoint Security – Kaspersky EDR, ESET PROTECT, VirusTotal FIM integration ✔ Firewall & Network Security – pfSense, FortiGate, IPsec VPN, WAN hardening ✔ GeoIP Enrichment & Attack Dashboards – OpenSearch/Kibana visualizations ✔ Active Response Automation – Python scripting, email alerting, SMTP integrations ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖥 SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Windows Server – Active Directory (AD DS), DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, AD CS ✔ Linux Server – Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat / RHEL — setup, hardening, automation ✔ Virtualization – VMware ESXi, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, XenServer ✔ Monitoring & NMS – Zabbix, PRTG, Nagios, Wazuh agent health monitoring ✔ Backup & Recovery – Veeam Backup, NFS, disaster recovery planning ✔ Email & Cloud – Zimbra Mail Server, Nextcloud, OwnCloud ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 NETWORKING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Routing & Switching – VLANs, inter-VLAN routing, static & dynamic routing ✔ VPN – IPsec site-to-site, OpenVPN, WireGuard, Cloudflare Zero Trust ✔ Firewalls – pfSense HA/CARP cluster, FortiGate policy management ✔ Remote Access – RustDesk, MeshCentral, self-hosted RDP solutions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📜 CERTIFICATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ CC – Certified in Cybersecurity (ISC²) ✔ CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Associate ✔ RHCSA – In Progress I bring real enterprise experience not just lab setups. My work spans SOC operations at a national-scale defense retail chain, infrastructure security across border terminals and logistics sites, and ongoing managed security services for international clients. 📩 Available for one-time projects, ongoing retainers, and urgent engagements. Let's secure your infrastructure message me to get started.

I secure, harden, and monitor Linux servers for businesses that cannot afford downtime, breaches, or blind spots in their infrastructure. 100% Job Success | Top Rated | 1,300+ hours on Upwork. If your servers lack proper monitoring, your SIEM is not deployed, your firewall rules are a mess, or your DNS keeps breaking, I fix it properly, not temporarily. What I deliver: - Wazuh SIEM/XDR deployment: full setup, agent enrollment, custom rules, dashboards, and alerting across Linux and Windows endpoints - Server monitoring stacks: Wazuh, Zabbix, Nagios, Grafana - deployed, configured, and tuned to reduce alert noise - Linux server hardening to production-grade standards (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS) - Firewall policy design and enforcement (UFW, iptables, pfSense) - DNS architecture with failover, DNSSEC, and SPF/DKIM/DMARC for email security - Cloud infrastructure security across AWS, Azure, GCP, and DigitalOcean - NGINX and Apache optimization for high-traffic environments - CI/CD pipeline security and infrastructure automation with Docker and Bash - Log analysis, threat detection, and incident response Recent work: - Deployed and managed Wazuh SIEM across multi-server environments with real-time alerting and compliance monitoring - Built hardened Linux environments for production workloads and educational content delivery - Architected DNS with failover for multi-region deployments Experience includes serving as Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Manager for a venture firm, Senior DNS & Network Security Engineer at a security company, and Infrastructure & Security Consultant for a US-based consulting firm. I respond within 5 hours. Message me with details about your server, monitoring, or security challenge and I will tell you exactly how I can help.

I’m an eJPT-certified Penetration Tester focused on web, API, and internal network security. I actively practice through private bug bounty programs and hands-on labs/CTFs, and I’m currently studying for the DCPT certification. What I can help you with: - Web & API pentesting (OWASP Top 10): auth/session issues, IDOR/BOLA, injections, XSS, access control flaws - Internal network / AD security reviews: enumeration, attack paths, weak configs, credential exposure - Vulnerability assessment + validation: prioritize what’s exploitable and what truly matters - Actionable reporting: clear reproduction steps + remediation guidance your team can implement Tooling I commonly use includes: - Burp Suite - Caido - Nmap - Metasploit - ffuf/gobuster - Nessus - sqlmap - BloodHound - CrackMapExec - hashcat - Wireshark My background includes infrastructure and security operations (Linux/Windows, firewalls, VPNs, IAM/AD), which helps me test realistically and communicate fixes in a practical way. I also hold LPIC-1 - Linux Administrator (secondary to my offensive security track).