Eric Renfro
Company Owner at Linux-Help Co-op
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEric Renfro is a seasoned systems engineer and company owner based in Toronto with over three decades of programming experience and 11 years in professional infrastructure roles, specializing in Linux server architecture, high-availability clustering, and automation. He designs and runs complex, highly clustered environments (Proxmox, Pacemaker, Ceph, Kubernetes) and has led production engineering across hospitality, SaaS, and travel industries while maintaining strict compliance and operational resilience. Comfortable across languages from Bash and Perl to Python, Go, and Rust, he builds management and automation tooling that bridges day-to-day ops and long-term architecture. Eric has hands-on experience scaling 150+ server fleets, running multi-datacenter deployments, and operating critical observability stacks like Zabbix and Splunk. As founder of a Linux-focused non-profit co-op, he combines community documentation and professional support with real-world engineering, a blend that keeps his solutions practical, well-documented, and battle-tested.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Conroe High SchoolInformation Technology, Information Technology at Travis High School
Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
ubuntu10
vim10
nvim10
multiple-machines10
api10
bash10
snippet10
tty10
encryption10
jinja210
tpm10
lua10
debian10
text-editor10
bootstrap10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
erenfro/vagrant-chef11
May 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 6 months
linux-help/sudo_rules
May 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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