Octavio Alvarez
Lead Support Engineer & Project Manager at Luxoft
Guadalajara, Mexico
Summary
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SeniorOctavio Alvarez is a Lead Support Engineer and Project Manager with over 20 years of hands-on experience in network engineering and Linux systems, currently based in Guadalajara and serving a global services firm with a prominent network-testing client. He leads and mentors support teams to deliver high-availability solutions across ISP and enterprise environments, designing resilient, vendor-agnostic architectures that scale for mass-customer and enterprise projects. A longtime Linux user and distro-hopper (Red Hat, Slackware, Arch, Ubuntu, Debian), he writes and packages scripts and tools—several released as open source—and ran a Linux User Group for a decade while contributing to Debian and LibreOffice. His engineering approach blends deep technical rigor with practical operational empathy, informed by decades of solving complex networking challenges and a lifelong curiosity that dates back to programming on a 640 KB MS-DOS machine.
20 years of coding experience
Spanish, English
Github Skills (74)
gerrit10
in-progress10
zip10
cups10
ipv410
ipv610
libreoffice10
speaker10
markdown9
multicore9
tweak9
subnet9
launcher9
configuration-file9
liquid9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alvarezp/pgnui
Oct 2009 - Jun 2014
Contributions:98 commits in 4 years 8 months
alvarezp/ipv6toolkit
Jun 2015 - Oct 2020
SI6 Networks' IPv6 Toolkit. I contribute patches related to Debian packaging.
Contributions:15 pushes, 22 branches, 2 tags in 5 years 4 months
iprouterosdebian-packagingipv4ospf
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