I help businesses secure and optimize Linux infrastructure, firewalls, VPNs and virtualization environments.
Specialized in:
Network & Security: OPNsense | pfSense | Wazuh SIEM
Wireless & Infrastructure: Ubiquiti UniFi Ecosystem
Virtualization & Backup: Proxmox VE | Proxmox Backup Server
VPN & Connectivity: WireGuard | OpenVPN | Cloudflare Tunnel
SysAdmin & DevOps: Linux Servers | Docker | Reverse Proxy
Core Services: Network Troubleshooting | Infrastructure Hardening
I work mainly with:
VPN issues
Firewall configuration
Secure remote access
Reverse proxy problems
Linux server deployments
Monitoring and log analysis
High availability environments
I focus on fast troubleshooting, security best practices and stable infrastructure delivery.
If you need someone to solve infrastructure and security problems quickly and professionally, let’s talk.
I am a seasoned System Administrator with over 14 years of experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise-grade IT infrastructures. I specialize in building efficient, reliable systems that keep businesses running smoothly
Competencies:
- Infrastructure Design: Deploying robust Windows & Linux environments
- Networking: Advanced configuration of routers, switches, and access points
- Virtualization & Containers: Hyper-V, KVM, Proxmox, Docker
- Operational Excellence: Automated backups, VoIP, and proactive monitoring systems
Certifications:
- MCSE (Server Infrastructure)
- CCNA (Routing and Switching)
Karthik R.
Linux & Windows System Administrator | Automation Specialist
Chennai, India
$15/hr$15 per hour4.7 (50) 88 jobs $9K+ total earnings
✅ ABOUT ME:
I am a Professional Full Time Freelancer. I have 9+ years of experience working on Windows/Linux server administration, CICD Devops ,AWS, Azure, windows/Linux troubleshooting, HyperV, proxmox servers, DNS records mapping, IIS, Domains and DNS records management, active directory, web server, webhosting, databases administrations and Mail server implementations, administrations for the mail services MS Office365, Gsuite, Zimbara and postfix .
✅ WHY ME?
• Full-time Professional – I work on Upwork as a full-time freelancer. I take every project seriously and I am highly professional.
• Highly responsive – I’ll always get back to you in less than 02 hours.
• 100% Client satisfaction – I provide revisions and modifications even after our contract ends.
• I provide accurate solutions and just as important, I can guide you to future prospects and put your project on the right track.
• Good communication skills – You will find me very friendly to talk to.
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#Windows Servers - clients
#Linux Server - clients
#Web servers - IIS, Apache, XAMPP, Nginx and Tomcat
#Database Servers - MSSQL, ORACLE, MYSQL, MongoDB
#Webhosting tools- Plesk, cPanel and CWP
#Cloud services providers - AWS, Azure, GCP, Digital Ocean, World stream, OVH Cloud, Hetzner and Hosting raja
#Hosting providers - Hostinger, Bluehost, Namecheap, Godaddy, Bigrock and Hostgator
#Active Directory - setup, users creation, Centralized Management, policy creation and enhanced Security
#Troubleshooting - L1, L2
Tools used
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Github, SVN
IIS,Apache,Tomcat,Nginx , Apache Kafka and Wordpress
SSH, RDP, VNC, Anydesk, Splashtop and screen connect
Mobaxterm,Toad,SSMS and Workbench
Plesk,WHM,Cpanel
Active Directory, IAM
Servicenow, Redmine, Microsoft Teams and Slack
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YUQIAN Y.
Embedded Systems Engineer Hardware Integration and Video Processing
Beijing, China
$75/hr$75 per hour5.0 (1) 5 jobs $8K+ total earnings
When systems break under real-world constraints — unstable networks, missing documentation, mixed hardware — I step in to diagnose and fix them.
I specialize in:
• Systems integration (IoT, edge devices, multi-protocol environments)
• Real-time streaming (WebRTC / RTSP / low-latency pipelines)
• Performance & storage engineering (high-throughput, large-scale systems)
• Distributed systems & Go backend (control-plane, metadata services, cluster coordination)
Selected work:
• Airport perimeter security platform
Integrated fiber optic vibration sensors, IP cameras, alarms, and lighting into a unified real-time alert platform.
→ Received hands-on training from Fibersonics engineers on sensor physics and signal analysis — applied this to configure per-zone detection parameters, achieving near-zero missed detections with low false positives across outdoor conditions
→ Debugged and stabilized WebRTC/RTSP streaming through packet-capture analysis — no documentation available; resolved by reading ZLMediaKit source code and tracing protocol negotiation
→ Deployed and in active use
• Offline mesh-based classroom system
Built ESP32-C6 mesh network for student response collection in zero-WiFi environments.
→ Power-optimized to ~1 month battery life (4000mAh) in testing
→ Designed full stack: embedded firmware + desktop management + cloud analytics
• Offline canteen management system
Implemented custom TCP server on Android with a Windows C++ Qt client over direct ethernet.
→ Ensured data integrity for large transfers in a network-restricted environment with no external infrastructure
→ Deployed and in active use
• Metadata control-plane for disaggregated database (major state-owned bank)
Core developer of the Go-based metadata/control-plane service that enabled compute-storage separation on a Greenplum/PostgreSQL-based distributed database.
→ Centralized TB-scale metadata — transactions, sessions, locks, invalidation state — previously trapped inside local compute nodes
→ Built on FoundationDB (core KV backend), etcd (cluster coordination, leader election), and a custom RPC layer
→ Implemented session lifecycle, distributed locking, deadlock detection, and invalidation message pipeline
• Disaggregated storage system (China Construction Bank)
Core developer of the disaggregated storage module managing thousands of PBs across multi-cloud object storage (AWS S3, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud) behind a ~1TB local cache.
→ Designed query-driven prefetching and segmented caching of hot data
→ Cold start ~20x slower than SSD; warm cache performance on par with SSD
• Adaptive compression engine (YMatrix time-series database)
Designed automode system that dynamically detects data characteristics across stream segments and selects optimal encoding chains (zigzag, simple8b, deltadelta, Gorilla2, lz4/zstd).
→ Deployed in production — patented encoding chain design
Prior to the above, I spent 6 years as Lead Engineer at FreeWheel (a US media-tech company, acquired by Comcast), building Kubernetes-based microservices platforms and cutting fault localization time from over a day to under a minute using Istio service mesh and distributed tracing. Before that, I was a Technical Expert at Alibaba Cloud, where I extended a database proxy to support the PostgreSQL protocol (read/write splitting, failover reconnection) and built a stability engineering system for RDS PostgreSQL that kept the service running through 2021 Double 11 — one of the world's highest-traffic e-commerce events.
I've diagnosed production issues across Go, C++, and distributed systems — including a Golang memory leak traced through Prometheus metrics to a misconfigured HTTP client, and C++ performance bottlenecks in deployed systems. My approach: correlate monitoring data with business operations to narrow scope before touching the code. I've published source-level analysis of Prometheus internals on InfoQ.
Domain experience with counter-drone detection systems — participated in field testing and evaluation of RF detection and optical tracking platforms, with firsthand understanding of operational scenarios, detection requirements, and alert workflow needs.
If you're dealing with:
• unstable integrations
• streaming issues (WebRTC / RTSP)
• hardware + software systems not working together
• performance problems in production
—I can help you find and fix the root cause.
Tech stack: Systems Integration Engineer | Edge AI, Video, Embedded & Distributed Systems
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