Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Marble Falls, Texas, United States
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Master generalist UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator with a track record of completing…
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"Git Foundations" training debuted at USENIX LISA to overwhelming positive response from attendees
"Git Foundations" training debuted at USENIX LISA to overwhelming positive response from attendees
By Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Activity
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A cross-cloud cost and usage format spec v1.0 was released last month. It's called FOCUS: "FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) is an…
A cross-cloud cost and usage format spec v1.0 was released last month. It's called FOCUS: "FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) is an…
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Another docker desktop replacement that has that you debug distroless docker container without any monthly subscription fee. One of the downside of…
Another docker desktop replacement that has that you debug distroless docker container without any monthly subscription fee. One of the downside of…
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It took me a while to fully realize the value of something my company achieved years ago, and continues to savor today. It’s one of our greatest…
It took me a while to fully realize the value of something my company achieved years ago, and continues to savor today. It’s one of our greatest…
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Experience
Education
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Brandeis University
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Activities and Societies: BURP! (Brandeis University Recycling Program!) Biophysics Club Science Fiction & Fantasy Society
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Grounds Maintenance Volunteer
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
- 8 months
Civil Rights and Social Action
Maintained CCHR International headquarters (grounds and facility) under supervision of Facilities Manager. Unlike my usual jobs pushing computer electrons around, here I worked with Earth, Fire, Water and Air. Duties including washing, painting, cleaning, polishing, gardening, gofering, and a touch of physical security.
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Member of the Board of Directors
League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA)
- 1 year 1 month
Science and Technology
Board member, Secretary, chair of the Marketing/Communications committee, chair of the Local Chapters committee, liaison to Leadership committee.
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Groundskeeper Volunteer
Saint Edward Retreat Center
- 6 months
Children
I got to work with Earth, Water, Fire and Air again in a very special setting, a Catholic mountain camp and retreat center in Wrightwood, CA, in the Angeles National Forest. Activities included raking pine needles, mopping, scrubbing, mouse trapping, gofer duties, breaking trails, escorting visiting priests, and all kinds of physical activities (including assisting with construction and demolition).
Publications
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CFEngine 3.5.1 Agent Promise Attributes [Appendix]. In Diego Zamboni, Learning CFEngine 3 (21 October 2013, pp. 215-229)
O'Reilly Media
Diego Zamboni describes it thus: The brand-new Appendix C, contributed by Aleksey Tsalolikhin, contains a summary of all the attributes available for promises in agent bundles. Just browsing through this Appendix will give you an excellent overview of all the things you can do with CFEngine. In the electronic version of this book, each attribute links to its reference documentation in the CFEngine website, so you can look up the full details in seconds.
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Conference Reports: LISA ’12: Real World Configuration Management Workshop
;login: The USENIX Magazine
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Degree Programs in System Administration
Poster session presented at: LISA 2012. 26th Large Installation System Administration Conference; San Diego, CA.
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Security Monitoring and Enforcement with Cfengine 3
Linux Journal (May 2011 issue)
Practical demonstrations of using cfengine to increase security.
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Configuration Management Summit
USENIX ;login: magazine
A report on open-source configuration management tools of bcfg2, cfengine, chef and puppet. Intended to give an overview of the start of the art in configuration management, this report includes the unique characteristics and strengths and weaknesses of each of the above.
Projects
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Cron synchronization (LOPSA Mentorship project)
The protege, Ian Dexter Marquez, Created and deployed a management tool for setting scheduled jobs from a centralized repository. Scheduled jobs were previously stored and managed locally. With the sync tool, jobs were centrally managed from a source code repository, and pulled by the corresponding servers, thus improving the scheduling workflow and minimizing errors. This project was accepted in the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) Mentorship Program…
The protege, Ian Dexter Marquez, Created and deployed a management tool for setting scheduled jobs from a centralized repository. Scheduled jobs were previously stored and managed locally. With the sync tool, jobs were centrally managed from a source code repository, and pulled by the corresponding servers, thus improving the scheduling workflow and minimizing errors. This project was accepted in the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) Mentorship Program (https://lopsa.org/mentor).
Other creators
Honors & Awards
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Employee of the Year, Tech (Deluxe Digital Cinema, 2012)
Deluxe Digital Cinema USA
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CFEngine Community Champion (2011)
CFEngine
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LOPSA Mentor of the Year (2011)
League of Professional System Administrators
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Mountain Mover (EarthLink, Engineering, 2001)
EarthLink Engineering
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Russian
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Spanish
Elementary proficiency
Organizations
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ACM
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IEEE-CS
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LOPSA
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USENIX
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