Summary
Cedric Defortis is a seasoned Linux systems and Ops engineer with 15 years of experience building and automating high-availability hosting and infrastructure. Based in Occitania, France, he specializes in Linux/Unix administration, configuration management with Puppet and Ansible, containerization with Docker, and scripting in Python, Ruby, Perl and shell. He has blended freelance expertise with roles at OpsCircle, OpenAirlines and Smile, delivering scalable operations and automations for production environments. A longtime advocate of free software and diverse Linux distributions (Gentoo, Arch, Debian, CentOS), he pairs deep hands-on operational skills with a pragmatic automation-first mindset. Notably, his background includes low-level infrastructure automation at IBM and end-to-end orchestration of hosting platforms, making him equally at home troubleshooting kernels or building repeatable deployment pipelines.
15 years of coding experience
2-year Associate's degree, Internet Technologies, network administration, 2-year Associate's degree, Internet Technologies, network administration at Dundalk Institute of Technology
Bachelor, Network and system administration, Bachelor, Network and system administration at University of Savoie
2-year Associate's degree, Unix system administration, 2-year Associate's degree, Unix system administration at I.U.T of Network & Telecoms
Master, Network administration and security, Master, Network administration and security at University of Sciences of Montpellier
English, French