Leonid Flaks
System Administrator
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonid Flaks is a seasoned system administrator with 17 years of hands-on experience and over a decade focused on enterprise Linux environments supporting scientific research. He has designed, installed, and maintained complex infrastructure—servers, storage arrays, and networks—at national labs and research institutions, currently serving Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory after a long tenure at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His background blends deep operational expertise with architecture-level thinking from roles as both engineer and technology architect, enabling pragmatic solutions for high-availability, data-intensive workloads. Based in New York, he brings institutional knowledge of scientific IT operations and an ability to translate experimental requirements into auditable, scalable systems. An early technical foundation from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University underpins a career notable for longevity and reliability in mission-critical environments.
16 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Github Skills (17)
cobbler9
napalm9
dhcp9
docker8
tftp8
python8
linux8
converting4
oracle-linux4
rhel3
centos3
hat3
packaging2
almalinux2
php2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
epicsdeb/nsls2-keyring
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 6 tags in 2 years
epicsdeb/imagej-areadetector
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 tag in 1 day
imagejimageareadetector
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