Paul Barzallo is a Senior Systems Administrator and long-time Open Source advocate from Ecuador with 11+ years of formal experience in IT security, networks and Linux systems administration. He has led CSIRT initiatives for the national research and education network, co-founded and ran a hosting company since 2002, and now combines hands-on hardening and incident response with teaching roles in higher education. Comfortable from LAMP stacks and Bash/PHP scripting to WAN/LAN architecture, he specializes in troubleshooting, optimization and building mature incident response capabilities. Paul’s background blends practitioner-level operations with over two decades of instructional work, so he often turns complex infrastructure problems into reproducible learning moments for teams and students. An Atari BASIC-era programmer who embraced Linux in 1998, he brings both historical perspective and practical, open-source–first solutions to modern security and infrastructure challenges.
10 years of coding experience
Master en Redes de Comunicaciones, Administración/Administrador de sistemas, redes y comunicaciones LAN/WAN, Master en Redes de Comunicaciones, Administración/Administrador de sistemas, redes y comunicaciones LAN/WAN at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Ingeniero en Sistemas Informáticos, Software Libre, Administración Linux, Aplicaciones Web, Ingeniero en Sistemas Informáticos, Software Libre, Administración Linux, Aplicaciones Web at Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo
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