Mick Hellstrom
Senior Consultant at MickMake Consulting
Here, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Australia
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Top SchoolMick Hellstrom is a seasoned Senior Consultant and UNIX/virtualization architect with over a decade of experience designing and delivering resilient infrastructure for enterprises across APJ. He has led large UNIX transformations and virtualization projects (Sun Zones, LDoms, Linux vserver/OpenVZ, VMware) and centralized authentication at scale using LDAP/Kerberos/AD, with deep hands-on skills across Linux, Solaris, HPUX, databases and embedded systems. His background spans systems engineering, data centre operations (environmental and power), and developer tooling, reflecting a rare blend of low-level systems coding (C, assembler) and higher-level automation (Perl, Python, shell). As founder of MickMake Consulting and a content creator (MickMake on YouTube), he combines consulting practice with maker-driven outreach, bringing practical prototyping and educational communication to complex technical problems. Known for pragmatic architecture and cross-team technical leadership, he has repeatedly turned legacy estates into cost-effective, maintainable platforms while mentoring operations teams.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Elec Eng, Elec Eng at TAFE NSWBarker College
English
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Github Skills (114)
identity10
authentication10
proxy10
oauth2-proxy10
sso-authentication10
wordpress10
pid10
api10
golang10
solar-energy10
openid-connect10
cloud-infrastructure10
xdebug10
authorization10
solar-system10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wplib/php-docker
Jun 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:96 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
gearboxworks/docker-proxy
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
nginx proxy Docker Container for Gearbox
Contributions:7 releases, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 1 year 3 months
nginxproxydocker-proxydockernginx-proxy
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