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Member Profile

Contractor For Hire

Location:

Orem, Utah

Employment:

Working Full Time

Current Title:

Senior Linux System Administrator

Home Page:

http://www.ryansimpkins.com

IRC Nick:

rsimpkins

Tech Comfort Level:

Highly Experienced

Home Phone:

(801) 602-8661

Work Phone:

(801) 722-7000 x 361

Biography:

Ryan Simpkins began using GNU/Linux in critical production environments in 1998. He is currently a Sr. Linux System Administrator working with fortune 500 companies and over 10,000 production Linux servers. Currently the system he administers receives more than 7 billion front-end transactions daily. Ryan also administers one of the ten largest MySQL installations in the world handling over 300 billion queries daily.

With a deep understanding of POSIX systems, the Linux kernel, and GNU tools Ryan has been able to provide professional level services to many businesses. As a programmer Ryan has worked with Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, and C/C++ to create countless business critical applications. Ryan currently resides in Lehi, Utah with his wife and five children.

Please click on Ryan's profile for additional information, or visit his LinkedIn profile.

Additional Information:

Ryan is available for contract work. His rates are very competitive, and his depth of experience allows him to bring solutions to your business that you can count on. He is available for emergency and after-hours work. Please call day or night: (801) 602-8661

Technical Preferences

Primary Desktop OS:

Fedora

Primary Server OS:

CentOS

Favorite Editor:

vim

Prefered Window Manager:

Gnome

Favorite Browser:

Opera

Primary Database:

MySQL

Preferred Version Control System:

RCS

Programming Languages:

Perl, PHP, Bash, Python, Ruby, C, C++

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