About Keith Herron

Hi, my name is Keith. I’m an open source systems engineer of over 10 years from the greater Boston area. My focal points are DevOps, Observability, Linux systems administration, Xen virtualization, Puppet configuration management, automation, and cloud provisioning and management.

I build and support robust, affordable and scalable solutions using open source software and cloud technologies. I have extensive experience in the design, implementation and support of many different aspects of IT systems infrastructure.

If you need a systems engineer experienced with…

  • GNU/Linux Systems, specifically Red Hat, Debian and Ubuntu.
  • Monitoring and Log Analysis
  • Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and their OpenSearch counterparts
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Kafka
  • Puppet Configuration Management
  • Xen Virtualization
  • Storage including RAID, DAS, SAN, NAS, GlusterFS and Object Storage
  • Cloud infrastructure management
  • Backup & Disaster Recovery
  • Automated Provisioning
  • Apache, MySQL, PHP
  • Server Hardening & Security
  • Performance Optimization
  • Scalability
  • Core Internet Protocols: IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP

Let’s talk about your project [email protected]

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