"Never stop learning."
I'm a Linux systems engineer and developer with a strong passion for automation, back-end tooling, and infrastructure.
I specialize in:
- Writing minimal, functional, dependency-free Bash scripts, and (if I must) POSIX shell scripts
- Building infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration as code (CaC) with Terraform and Ansible
- Managing servers and self-hosted services in my homelab (Proxmox + K8s)
- Documenting everything using Markdown/MkDocs and GitHub Pages
- Implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
I'm currently working towards a career in Linux Systems Administration/Engineering, and eventually DevOps/Platform Engineering. I enjoy helping others learn the command line and Linux systems from the ground up.
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Personal Tech Notes Site: MkDocs site with all my notes on various aspects of technology (Bash, Linux internals, cloud, etc.)
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ProLUG Course Sites: Maintainer of open-source Linux courses
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Kubernetes Deployment Scripts: Set of Bash scripts and Ansible playbooks used to configure a highly available K8s cluster
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Proxmox Utility Scripts: Hand-rolled Proxmox helper scripts.
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Automated Monitoring Stack: Ansible playbooks that deploys tools from Grafana Labs (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Node_Exporter, Promtail)
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Image Watermarker Application: A Python desktop application used to add logo and text watermarks to images.
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GitHub Backup Tool: Bash script using GitHub API + AWS EC2 + AWS S3 to automate org repo backups (currently private, available upon request)
More projects at 👉 https://github.com/kolkhis?tab=repositories and my lab-utils repository
- ProLUG Certified Linux Systems Administrator - ProLUG (2024)
- ProLUG Certified Security Engineer - ProLUG (2025)
- Gremlin Enterprise Chaos Engineering Certification (GECEC) - Gremlin (2025)
| Category | Tools && Tech |
|---|---|
| Languages | Bash, Python, Perl, Lua, Go (basic), C (basic), HTML/CSS, Markdown |
| Shell Scripting | Bash, POSIX-compliant shell, regex |
| Automation | Ansible, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, yaml |
| Systems | Proxmox, Ubuntu Server, Rocky Linux, RHEL, systemd, etc. |
| Observability | Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, etc. |
| Tooling | Linux CLI, vi/vim, tmux/screen, git, SSH, containers (Docker/Podman), etc. |
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kolkhis
- Email: connor@kolkhis.dev