Luke Shirnia
Linux Full Stack Software Engineer III at Rackspace Technology
Windsor, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Shirnia is a Linux Full Stack Software Engineer III with a decade of experience building automation, tooling and production-grade infrastructure at Rackspace. He combines deep Linux administration roots (LAMP, security, Bash) with modern cloud-native skills in Python, Ansible, Kubernetes and CI/CD, holding CKAD, CKA, RHCSA and RHCE certifications plus Red Hat specialist creds in containers and Ansible. At Rackspace he progressed from first-line support to escalation point and engineer, repeatedly delivering automation that reduced operational load and improved incident response. He mentors and interviews engineers, translating hands-on operational know-how into reusable tooling and runbooks. His academic work includes an award-winning enterprise honeypot built on CentOS/Ubuntu/Kali and VMware, reflecting a practical interest in security and observability. Based in Windsor, UK, he blends customer-focused support experience with pragmatic software engineering to accelerate troubleshooting and save teams time.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Systems and Networks, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Systems and Networks at Southampton Solent University
Github Skills (29)
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debian10
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ubuntu10
out-of-memory10
analyzer9
oom9
memory-allocation9
linux-distribution9
linux-kernel9
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rhel9
collections8
python8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LukeShirnia/out-of-memory
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
Out Of Memory Analyzer can be used to obtain and summarize "out of memory" issues logged by a Linux kernel (when oom-killer is invoked)
Contributions:211 commits, 22 PRs, 279 pushes in 3 years
kernelmemoryoommemory-issueslinux
LukeShirnia/OOM-Killer-score
Apr 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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