Pascal S
Senior Lead System Engineer at XenIT GmbH Zürich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPascal S is a Senior Lead System Engineer based in Zurich with over two decades of hands-on expertise in Linux/UNIX infrastructure, RHEL consulting, and enterprise training. A Red Hat Certified Engineer and long-time examiner since 2002, he has led complex RHEL stacks across virtualized and cloud environments (Azure, AWS) and implemented centralized AD-integrated authentication, security concepts, and automation using salt-stack. He founded XenIT to deliver consulting, education and operational solutions—ranging from Satellite/Capsule and Spacewalk to OpenStack labs and VoIP/web services—for clients including IBM, Swisscom, SUN and SBB. His background also includes Solaris administration and formal trainer roles (SUN Switzerland, SwissLife), reflecting a strong emphasis on transferable skills and knowledge transfer. Outside traditional consulting he has run independent projects and creative ventures, blending technical leadership with entrepreneurial initiative. His unusual blend of biotech/organic chemistry education and deep systems engineering gives him a pragmatic, methodical approach to solving infrastructure challenges.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Organic Chemistry, Bachelor's degree Organic Chemistry at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesPost diploma biotechnology post diploma biotechnology, Post diploma biotechnology post diploma biotechnology at Teesside University
English, German, Italian, French, schwiizertüütsch, Portuguese
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
QueerCodingGirl/liquid-feedback-docker
Jan 2018 - Apr 2021
Dockerfile for Liquid Feedback
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 4 months
dockerfileliquiddockerfeedback
DarkGigaByte/RolloutBundle
May 2015 - Oct 2018
A php implementation of the feature flipper from jamesgolick/rollout wrapped in a symfony 2 bundle
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 6 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundlerolloutwrapped
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