Mitchell Krog
Company Owner at Mitchell Krog Professional Nikon Photography Services
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolMitchell Krog is a Linux-focused DevOps engineer and serial entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building secure server and web solutions from South Africa. He runs multiple businesses spanning e-commerce, photography, and IT services while contributing to prominent open-source security projects such as the nginx- and apache-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker and the Ultimate Hosts Blacklist, where he improved CI/CD, automation and deployment tooling. Comfortable with Proxmox, WordPress/WooCommerce and complex server setups, he blends hands-on systems hardening and intrusion-detection expertise with practical product delivery. Unusually, he pairs deep technical security work with creative commercial ventures—professional Nikon photography and fine-art publishing—bringing a multidisciplinary perspective to solving real-world infrastructure and customer problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
N.Dip Landscape Technology Landscape Design & Construction, N.Dip Landscape Technology Landscape Design & Construction at Technikon Pretoria
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (15)
sh10
automation10
script10
bash10
automations10
nginx10
shell10
apache10
devops10
scripting10
cicd10
automated-tests9
file-management9
git8
php7
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
mitchellkrogza/apache-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker
Jul 2016 - Nov 2022
Apache Block Bad Bots, (Referer) Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, Wordpress Theme Detectors and Fail2Ban Jail for Repeat Offenders
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:820 releases, 2462 commits, 46 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell primarily contributed to the build and deployment infrastructure of the Apache bot blocker project. Their work involved setting up a Travis CI build process, including adding build testing, and creating and modifying deployment scripts. They also integrated tools and configurations for automation, such as setting up a bash script for auto-updating the blacklist and ensuring the correct installation of the tool.
fail2banmalwarereferrervulnerability-scannerswordpress-themes
Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist
Jul 2017 - Jun 2021
The Ultimate Unified Hosts file for protecting your network, computer, smartphones and Wi-Fi devices against millions of bad web sites. Protect your children and family from gaining access to bad web sites and protect your devices and pc from being infected with Malware or Ransomware.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:46 releases, 2498 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell's commits primarily focused on automating build processes and managing dependencies within the project. They made significant changes to shell scripts used for generating and deploying the hosts file. The user also implemented zipping functionality for the generated files and integrated new data sources. Their contributions improved build and deployment automation.
hosts-filemalwarewifihostshostsfile
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