Summary
Adam Portier is a seasoned Linux Administrator with 13 years of hands-on experience managing Red Hat and Debian environments, currently supporting infrastructure at Haverford College. He blends software development roots—Perl, Shell, C++ and Java—with systems administration, having configured and troubleshooted complex stacks including WebLogic, Apache, F5 BIG‑IP, Nagios and RHEL Satellite. His background spans enterprise and defense work at Raytheon and large-scale service environments at Comcast, giving him strong operational rigor for multi-hundred-node deployments. Comfortable at both the hardware bench (building PCs) and the command line, he pairs scripting-driven automation with practical network and appliance knowledge. He is actively expanding his systems and networking skill set and prefers solving infrastructure problems with pragmatic, code-first approaches.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Sociology/Anthropology, BS, Computer Science, Sociology/Anthropology at St. Mary's College of Maryland