Mitchell Krog
Company Owner at Living Canvas Wall Art
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.
10 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
bash10
automations10
script10
nginx10
shell10
apache10
devops10
scripting10
cicd10
automated-tests9
file-management9
git8
php7
Programming languages (21)
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.
referrerransomwareapache2vulnerability-scannersreferer-blocker
mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
Nginx Block Bad Bots, Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, User-Agents, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, with anti-DDOS, Wordpress Theme Detector Blocking and Fail2Ban Jail for Repeat Offenders
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1733 releases, 2 reviews, 4854 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell focused on establishing and refining the CI/CD pipeline for the project. Their commits demonstrate the creation and maintenance of test environments within the Travis CI platform, including the configuration of PHP handling and Nginx configuration files. The contributions involved resolving build errors related to Nginx configuration and file access within the Travis CI environment.
nginxreferrerantiransomwarevulnerability-scanners
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