Gilberto Ficara
Senior System Administrator
Pesaro and Urbino, Marche, Italy
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Top SchoolGilberto Ficara is a Senior System Administrator with 11 years of experience designing and operating highly available Linux infrastructures for enterprise clients from his base in Marche, Italy. He leads automation efforts using Ansible, Packer, govmomi/govc and custom Python/Paramiko scripts, and introduced Prometheus as a modern monitoring stack across production systems. His hands-on work spans Pacemaker/Corosync/DRBD clusters, HAProxy/Varnish load-balanced tiers, and tuning of web and database performance on both RHEL/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu platforms. Gilberto pairs systems engineering with testing discipline—using Goss, Docker for container evaluations, and bespoke benchmarking—to safely evolve legacy environments. He has a long-standing interest in clear technical communication, having edited Italy’s leading Linux magazine and authored documentation and educational materials for clients and teams. Notably, his background includes security work (vulnerability assessments and incident handling) and building custom automation and SSO integrations that bridge Linux and Active Directory environments.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
2001, Maturità Classica, 2001, Maturità Classica at Liceo Classico G. Leopardi
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Github Skills (65)
game-development10
sensu10
open-source10
game-engine9
nagios9
health-check9
virtualbox9
centos8
godot8
act8
ubuntu8
testing8
tdd8
packer7
vms7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stardata/packer-centos7-kvm-example
Nov 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
velenux/decomplexinfo
Sep 2015 - Feb 2024
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Contributions:13 PRs, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 5 months
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