Summary
Susan Lauber is a seasoned Linux and Unix systems expert, trainer, and consultant with over 30 years of hands-on experience in system administration, networking, interoperability, and security. As founder and principal of Lauber System Solutions, she designs curriculum, delivers technical training, and consults on Linux, OpenShift, Cloudera/Hadoop, and Red Hat enterprise deployments for clients including Cloudera and Red Hat. A long-time open source advocate and Fedora contributor, she combines deep platform knowledge (RHCA, CISSP) with practical hardening and automation skills using Ansible, Puppet, Git, SELinux, FreeIPA, and container platforms. Her background uniquely blends classroom pedagogy and course development with production troubleshooting for complex distributed data and virtualization environments. Based in Hillsborough, NC, she also teaches networking and security as an adjunct at Durham Tech, translating decades of vendor and field experience into accessible, outcome-driven training.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Astrophysics, BS, Astrophysics at Tufts University
MS, Information Science, MS, Information Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill