Andrew Pietila
Cottage Grove, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Pietila is a Jr DevOps Engineer and seasoned Linux administrator with 13 years of hands-on experience deploying and diagnosing production systems across Ubuntu, Debian, and RHEL-based distributions. He specializes in virtualization technologies including KVM, Xen, and OpenVZ, and has a track record of turning complex system issues into tested, verifiable solutions. At Kitu Systems he enables tailored software deployments for customers, and previously at Liquid Web and cPanel he automated diagnostics, patched widely used tools, and resolved subtle mail and Apache edge cases. Known for pragmatic scripting and diagnostic tooling, he has improved colleague productivity with deployable patches and created scripts to map user databases in cPanel environments. Based in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, he blends deep systems knowledge with a practical focus on reproducible fixes and operational resilience. He prefers clear, verifiable solutions over guesswork, often surfacing unexpected root causes in production systems.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (73)
minecraft10
forge10
operating-system10
unix10
java10
kernel10
discord10
mod-manager9
browser9
computercraft8
utility-mod7
gradle7
bytecode-manipulation7
mixins7
addon7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rallias/pdfy2
May 2015 - Feb 2026
Node.js port of PDFy.
Contributions:23 PRs, 51 pushes, 40 branches in 10 years 11 months
pdfnode-jsjavascriptnodejsnode
rallias/MakeZoomZoom
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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