I believe in participating in various outside-of-work projects in order to expand my skillset and experience. One can learn a lot through these projects as they open one’s eyes to complete understanding and familiarity of various technologies. My current projects include the following:
Current Projects
- Work, work, work, and more work - I work early mornings, mid-days, and evenings, as I don't like sitting still
- Building stuff on AWS with AWS tools (looking at you DynamoDB -_-)
- Code in python, code all things!
- Infra dashboards in Flask & Bootstrap
- Building enterprise-y file transfer tools
- System and service auditing tools
- System management tools and alert response tools. This helps with responding to NMS alerts and proactively fix things. Very similar to StackStorm.
- SaltStack on CentOS and FreeBSD platforms
- Working out intensively
- Learning JunOS
- Messing around with inter-platform networking (ex. ASAs and SRX)
- Revisit OSI Layer 2/Link Layer protocols and technologies.
Past Projects
My work projects on which I have worked on include:
- Hacking away and figuring out custom-built CentOS-based environment inherited from our parent company (built by some brilliant people)
- custom mass-configuration management tools; deployment of FOSS-based config management tools that everyone knows
- coding automation and audit scripts
- NIS-based netgroup maps
- large BIND configurations
- hundreds of Linux and Solaris systems and managing them swiftly
- Upgrading and properly building out massive server infrastructure
- syslog, repositories, monitoring (Nagios, Zabbix, Zenoss), central auth/mgmt services
- Datacenter migrations, maintenances, and full-on upgrades
- Being a liaison between network and UNIX teams (tac_plus, RANCID, configuration management); upgrading and managing network equipment and cabling
- Managing enterprise mailing clusters and in-house developed enterprise applications
- Educating developers on best security practices and aiding them with becoming faster and better developers; offloading app support
- Implementing backup systems, writing backup applications, and trimming down backup system configs (Bacula, Avamar, custom scripts for apps such as OpenDS, OpenLDAP, FreeIPA, MySQL, etc)
Personal Projects
My past personal projects on which I have worked on include the
following:
- Work on expanding Sopel IRC framework in Python for private IRC servers
- Automating VM creation in VMware, KVM, and Xen.
- Building a High Availability UNIX cluster and successfully implementing static (public_html)/dynamic (MySQL RDBMS) content replication.
- Successfully implementing multiple virtual host/domain web hosting service.
- Building a heterogenous network both at an educational, professional, and personal level.
- Fully migrate the web/file server this website resides on to FreeBSD with ZFS and Arch Linux from Slackware Linux 12.1.
- Building a SAN cluster out of 4 machines using Openfiler/various UNIX tools.
- Improving my current High Availability solution as there are more and more techniques and softwares available now. MySQL database replication/clustering services as well incorporation of the SAN for network storage will be key areas that will be touched upon. Hello Galera!
Future Projects
In the near future I plan to follow through with these projects:
- Implement a secure, small/medium-sized networking lab using actual Cisco hardware complete with route redistribution among multiple routing protocols, access-lists, AAA server, and numerous WAN protocols.
- Continue my studies towards the CCNP and JNCIA certifications (time permitting).
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