I'm not a "real" python mentor but i'm quite good at solving this.

C is the first language i learnt when i was near 16.
I'm quite good in this language but ONLY on unix systems.
Microsoft© Windows© 's C implementation is too far from POSIX and i don't like it much.

I built many complexes web application using Django.
Generic views, custom tags, model's hook are the kind of stuff i'm aware of.

It has been a long time since i didn't develop anything serious in perl but before learning Python, it was my favourite scripted language.

I'm not a DBA, but i'm good at writing optimised databases, optimising queries and MySQL server setup to improve it.

Nothing fears me when talking about sysadmin. 
Since i'm sysadmin as well as developper, i'm not afraid by developping glue or missing components to build the perfect infrastructure.

Quite the same than my sysadmin skill: nothing scare me while speaking about Linux (or, to be more correct, GNU/Linux).

Debian GNU/Linux is my favourite distro.
I use it since Debian Potatoe (2.2).
I'm comfy in packaging, debugging broken packages database, etc...
I just lack a bit of systemd training today to be 10/10.

From 1.3.x to 2.2.x, i know very well Apache webserver.
Used it as reverse proxy, with or without mod_proxy, with or without mod_uwsgi.
Rewrite rules is my third foreign language. (or maybe second, since my english isn't as good as my skill in rewrite rules).
I even developed into Apache modules !

Before Xen, i was attracted by virtualisation with, for example, User Mode Linux (aka UML).
Xen is a really powerfull tool for virtualisation.
I used to deploy it on every server i own for a better isolation of processes.
In the past, had to do a huge work on my Linux kernel to make Xen work on a RAID based server ... and i successed.

Recompiling, tweaking, hardening, hacking, patching ... i can do it !

My favourite kind of work.
I come to IT world because of IT security and i'm still very attracted by these topics.

I'm very comfortable in writing iptables rules.
I can help you in better understanding iptables and build complex rulesets.

Even if my favourite firewall is iptables, i can also help you in setting up a Cisco, Checkpoint or PF based firewall.

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Gérald C.

Summary

Technical skills