Kim Holviala
IT Consultant at QuickOps Consulting
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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SeniorKim Holviala is an experienced IT consultant and hands-on DevOps/SRE practitioner with over 25 years in systems engineering and 17 years in professional roles, based in Helsinki. He specializes in Linux, networking, storage, virtualization, backups, monitoring and automation, and has repeatedly designed and operated production clusters and large-scale server environments for high-traffic services. As a founder and owner of multiple consulting firms, he pairs deep technical troubleshooting skills—especially in mysterious production incidents—with pragmatic database administration and migration expertise. His background includes architecting resilient infrastructure for top-tier sites like Tori.fi and managing heterogeneous stacks from AIX clusters to modern cloud and hypervisor platforms. Known for clear English communication and team-oriented mentoring, he often blends legacy Unix knowledge with contemporary DevOps and CI/CD practices to keep systems reliably running 24/7.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Finnish
Github Skills (21)
daemon10
serial-communication10
displays9
security9
golang8
smart-screen8
monitor7
system-monitoring7
conky7
usb7
lua6
go6
gopher6
amdgpu6
python6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kimholviala/wsl-utils
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
kimholviala/dotfiles
Mar 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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