Aaron Toponce
Security Engineer And Linux System Administrator
Syracuse, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Toponce is a pragmatic security engineer and Linux system administrator with 15+ years managing hundreds of Ubuntu, RHEL and Arch servers across physical and virtual environments. At XMission he helps secure and maintain a 300-node estate—handling ZFS storage, offsite disaster recovery, PCI and SOC‑2 compliance, and Security Onion-based monitoring—while also automating operations with Salt, KVM, Docker and observability stacks like ELK and Grafana. He’s an experienced instructor and courseware author who has taught Red Hat and LPI curricula nationwide, which informs a clear, teachable approach to operations and security. Aaron pairs an MS in Cybersecurity with deep hands-on experience in backup, encryption (LUKS), and Vaultwarden deployments, favoring pragmatic, low-noise solutions over hype. Despite a low tolerance for recruitment outreach and social media, he’s a dependable operator who thrives in small teams protecting production infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics at Weber State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (200)
data-manipulation10
diceware10
vim10
encoding10
passphrase10
compression10
webextension10
nodejs10
nim-language10
zsh10
php10
password-manager10
python10
windows10
bash10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
atoponce/dotfiles
Aug 2012 - Oct 2022
Contributions:211 commits, 137 pushes in 10 years 3 months
atoponce/drawio
Mar 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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