Ninjalab — System Architecture · Linux · AI

Core Expertise

What I Bring to the Table

Generalist depth. Not a one-trick specialist. Two decades across the full stack — bare metal to cloud, kernel to browser.

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Linux Systems

RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, SLES. Kernel tuning, security hardening, SOE design, lifecycle management. 20 years deep.

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Cloud & Virtualization

AWS architecture & migration. Azure Stack HCI. VMware vSphere, KVM/RHEV, Hyper-V. Hybrid and multi-cloud.

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Clustering & HA

Veritas Cluster, Red Hat Cluster. Disaster recovery — Zerto, Double-Take. Failover design that actually works under fire.

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Networking

TCP/IP protocol-level troubleshooting. Routing, VPN, firewalls — Fortinet, Checkpoint. BIND, DHCP, NFS, Postfix, load balancing.

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Security & PKI

Infrastructure hardening, auditing, NIDS (Snort), incident handling. Internal Certificate Authority — full PKI deployment, TLS/SSL chain management, certificate lifecycle automation.

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DevOps & Automation

Ansible, Terraform, Puppet. CI/CD. Python & Bash scripting. Kickstart mass deployment. Monitoring — Nagios, RRDtool.

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Databases

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2. SQL tuning, troubleshooting, replication. From schema design to production optimization.

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Storage & SAN

SAN architecture, GFS clustering, multipath, LVM. High-throughput storage for databases and virtualized workloads. Backup & recovery.

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AI & LLM Integration

Prompt engineering, multi-agent orchestration, local AI inference. Building AI-driven automation workflows. No hype — production deployments.

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What I Offer

Freelancer. Direct.

No agency markup. No junior assigned after the pitch. You get me — 20 years of scars and all.

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Infrastructure Architecture

Greenfield design, migration planning, capacity forecasting, DR strategy. From a single rack to multi-DC deployments.

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Linux Engineering

OS hardening, kernel tuning, package management, kickstart automation, SOE design. The stuff that keeps things running at 3 AM.

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Migration & Transformation

AD migrations, data center moves, on-prem to cloud. Zero-surprise cutovers — because the plan accounted for what breaks.

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AI Workflow Automation

Custom LLM pipelines, agent orchestration, AI-augmented DevOps. Turning AI from a demo into an operational asset.

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Security Hardening

Infrastructure audits, compliance preparation, incident response planning. Built to survive auditors and attackers alike.

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Technical Advisory

Vendor proposal validation, architecture review, team mentoring. An outside pair of eyes that's seen the inside of enough data centers.

Technology Stack

Tools I Speak Fluently

Technologies and platforms I've deployed, troubleshot, and optimized in production.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ubuntu / Debian AWS Azure VMware vSphere KVM / RHEV Ansible Terraform Puppet Docker Nginx / Apache MySQL / PostgreSQL Oracle DB Fortinet / FortiGate Checkpoint F5 BigIP Zerto Veritas Cluster Bash / Shell Python PHP VueJS Nagios Snort / NIDS PKI / CA (EJBCA) OpenSSL / TLS

Infrastructure that doesn't break. Systems that scale.