Benjamin Southall
Linux System Administrator
Australia
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Top SchoolBenjamin Southall is a Linux System Administrator with nine years of hands-on experience building and maintaining reliable infrastructure across e-learning, affiliate marketing, and robotics companies. He blends traditional systems administration and SRE practices with software engineering skills—automating operations, scaling services, and improving developer workflows through bespoke tools and monitoring. Comfortable across GNU/Linux, networking, security and application stacks, he has a track record of moving between embedded and cloud-focused environments to solve thorny operational problems. Based in Australia and academically grounded in IT and Mathematics from QUT, he’s a pragmatic generalist who often surfaces opportunities for workflow improvement that teams hadn’t noticed.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Information Technology, Bachelor Information Technology at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
English, Indonesian, Japanese
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Github Skills (38)
ips10
anti-bot10
authentication10
linux10
hosts10
power-management10
security10
fail2ban10
php10
solaris10
daemon10
ids10
intrusion-detection10
image9
artificial-intelligence9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lainchan/lainchan
Sep 2016 - Dec 2022
The version of vichan running on lainchan.org
Contributions:271 commits, 35 PRs, 96 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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Appleman1234/arisu
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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