René Purcell
Linux System Administrator
Quebec, Canada
Summary
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SeniorRené Purcell is a Linux system administrator with two decades of passion for open source and eight years of focused professional experience, currently running IaaS and AKS projects on Azure for Desjardins. A longtime Fedora Ambassador, he blends deep systems knowledge (Red Hat and Novell certifications) with practical cloud skills across OpenStack, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Azure, and uses Ansible daily to automate operations. Comfortable translating between engineers and management, René is expanding into DevOps and application coding while exploring blockchain and DeFi projects like Ethereum, Polkadot, and MakerDAO. Based in Quebec, he pairs a community-driven open source mindset with hands-on reliability in production cloud environments.
8 years of coding experience
English
Github Skills (195)
python10
proxy10
automation10
docker-container10
hikvision10
ssh10
vpn-client10
thin10
docker-compose10
browser10
camera10
raspberry-pi-camera10
firefox10
signalr-client10
ansible10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
arsenicks/pyhydroquebec-hass-addons
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
HASS addon code for pyhydroquebec integration
Contributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 2 months
pythonaddonhass
arsenicks/local-mining-xmr-ansible
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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