Alan Bailward
Linux Engineer at Crafty Penguins
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAlan Bailward is a seasoned Linux engineer with 16+ years of hands-on experience in system administration, cloud infrastructure and information security, currently managing AWS-hosted environments at Crafty Penguins. He progressed from user-facing support and web development (Perl/PHP) to leading security and infrastructure for cloud-native operations, including running 20+ AWS servers, RDS, IAM and networking best practices. Alan has managed security programs for mid-size teams, piloted a bug bounty, and guided an ICO’s security planning, demonstrating practical threat mitigation and compliance experience. His background includes embedded OS development, STIG/SELinux work for government specs, and performance-focused automation that sped system builds at Layer 7. Based in Abbotsford, BC, he pairs long-term Linux expertise (since Slackware 1.0) with a creative side as a professional photographer, reflecting an unusual blend of technical rigor and people-focused service. He’s known for pragmatic problem-solving—right down to diagnosing dial-up modem error correction—and a track record of keeping systems reliable in small-business and startup contexts.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BCIS, Computer Information Systems, BCIS, Computer Information Systems at University College of the Fraser Valley
Stackoverflow
174reputation
10kreached
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Github Skills (15)
postgresql-database9
shell8
bash8
linux8
zsh7
agentic7
macos7
rust7
amazon-web-services6
ssm6
parsing6
fileio6
tagging6
ruby6
logging3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
arcterex/Referee-Management
Feb 2010 - Apr 2010
Contributions:81 commits in 2 months
arcterex/dotfiles
Feb 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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