Aleksander Korzyński

Aleksander Korzyński

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ABOUT ME
C, Bash, make, Git and Linux Mentor / Co-Author of an Upcoming Book
C, Bash, make, Git and Linux Mentor / Co-Author of an Upcoming Book

I'm happy to help you with C, Bash, GNU make, Git, Linux and related open-source technologies. I've enjoyed doing this stuff since the 1990s and it's got ingrained into my memory to such an extent that I seem to remember arcane stuff (like C pointers to pointers😉) even when somebody wakes me up in the middle of the night 😎

I also have a passion for helping others to grow as software engineers. I was told I ask good questions. If you ask me for advice I won't do your homework for you, but instead ask you questions that will help you come up with your own ways to improve your code or infrastructure. 🎓

I'm also a co-author of an upcoming book on Linux: Get Started on Linux by End of Tonight – Without Breaking Your Box. Check it out at: userbie.com

Polish, English
Warsaw (+01:00)
Joined February 2020
EXPERTISE
10 years experience | 1 endorsement
Linux system engineer/tinkerer since approx. 1999. Experience includes: * developing software for managing Linux clusters * technical tea...
Linux system engineer/tinkerer since approx. 1999. Experience includes: * developing software for managing Linux clusters * technical team leadership of DevOps for a large-scale Linux/OpenStack cluster * Linux cluster optimisation engineer * Linux system administrator
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5 years experience | 1 endorsement
Programming in C since ca. 1998. Notably: * I made changes to the Linux kernel in areas related to networked clustering, a project that r...
Programming in C since ca. 1998. Notably: * I made changes to the Linux kernel in areas related to networked clustering, a project that resulted in a publication at the 2006 Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks [1] * I made changes to the Minix kernel for the purpose of creating a CD-bootable distribution of Minix [2] * I contributed to the LAME MP3 encoder [3] * and many more... [1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.112.4202&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=170 [2]: https://studia.elka.pw.edu.pl/prog/minix/ [3]: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/lame/svn/trunk/lame/doc/html/history.html
10 years experience
Programming in OO languages since 2001: * Linux cluster monitoring and management software (C++, boost) * Linux cluster monitoring softwa...
Programming in OO languages since 2001: * Linux cluster monitoring and management software (C++, boost) * Linux cluster monitoring software (Java, GWT) * Linux server management software (Python) * and many more...
Software architectsRelational DatabaseGoogle Web Toolkit
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2 years experience
Created a DevOps pipeline for interacting with an Open-Source project - OpenStack: https://www.devopsera.com/2014/04/federative-continuou...
Created a DevOps pipeline for interacting with an Open-Source project - OpenStack: https://www.devopsera.com/2014/04/federative-continuous-integration.html
2 years experience
The go-to person for Git at a large development team. Co-created a tool for interacting with an Open-Source project: https://opendev.org/...
The go-to person for Git at a large development team. Co-created a tool for interacting with an Open-Source project: https://opendev.org/x/git-upstream/src/branch/master/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Git flow
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Git flow
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3 years experience

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(5 reviews)
James EdJo
James EdJo
July 2021
Aleksander helped me research debian/ubuntu packaging and automation, suggested a much simpler path forward to unblock me. Thanks!
Grażyna Matys
Grażyna Matys
December 2020
Aleksander is very communicative. Open for challenges. Will advise you and bring the best solution on the go.
Rnard Sloan
Rnard Sloan
October 2020
Excellent tutor and he helped me think about things more logically as I was doing the lab assignment! I will be working with him again in the future since I have plenty more assignments that would most likely require more guidance and thinking.
Michał Bednarz
Michał Bednarz
July 2020
Aleksander has given me great advice on how to code:) During the mentoring sessions, he asked me questions that gave me a lot to think about on how to structure the code and design the model. I felt he was one step ahead of my answers. Even the harder subjects he explained very clearly. He's an excellent mentor.
EMPLOYMENTS
Founder/Director/Consultant
KZS Commerce Ltd
2019-10-01-Present
Making things work. Sharing my passion for Freedom-respecting and Open-Source Software (FOSS), Linux and DevOps. Writing a book on Linux.
Making things work. Sharing my passion for Freedom-respecting and Open-Source Software (FOSS), Linux and DevOps. Writing a book on Linux.
HTML/CSS
Perl
Git
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HTML/CSS
Perl
Git
WordPress
Linux
Bash
XSLT
XPath
JavaScript
DocBook
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DevOps Expert
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE)
2011-03-01-2019-08-01
I have been a member of the core team that stood up the large-scale HP Public Cloud from scratch - over a 1000 of compute nodes. My great...
I have been a member of the core team that stood up the large-scale HP Public Cloud from scratch - over a 1000 of compute nodes. My greatest achievement has been leading the development of a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline. The system includes innovative extensions to Git. I have initiated and worked on a virtual OpenStack environment for developing software and for running automated tests. I have also been deeply involved in creating the Chef recipes that stand up our software in both the test and production environments and gained a lot if insight into how to implement (and how to not implement) configuration management. Some information on the project: https://www.devopsera.com/2014/04/federative-continuous-integration.html
Python
Perl
Git
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Python
Perl
Git
Linux
Bash
Ubuntu
Jenkins
OpenStack
DevOps
Progress Chef
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High Performance Computing Engineer and Software Developer
University of Cambridge
2009-07-01-2011-02-01
I tackled large-scale technical challenges in High Performance Computing. I was doing primarily Tools Development and Performance Benchma...
I tackled large-scale technical challenges in High Performance Computing. I was doing primarily Tools Development and Performance Benchmarking of a £multi-million Linux cluster operated by the University. The machine used to be the 20th fastest computer in the world at the time of its installation in 2006. It was a contract job and a secondment from ClusterVision.
Java
MySQL
Linux
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Java
MySQL
Linux
Shell
Performance Testing
Google Web Toolkit
High-Performance Computing
Performance Optimization
Torque
Pbs
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PROJECTS
git-upstreamView Project
2013
A tool for managing interaction with an Open-Source project
A tool for managing interaction with an Open-Source project
Python
Git
Shell
Python
Git
Shell
CD-based MinixView Project
2003
A live-CD distribution of Minix
A live-CD distribution of Minix
C
Minix
C
Minix