Luke Shirnia
Linux Full Stack Software Engineer III at Rackspace Technology
Windsor, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Shirnia is a Linux Full Stack Software Engineer III with a decade of experience building automation, tooling and production-grade infrastructure at Rackspace. He combines deep Linux administration roots (LAMP, security, Bash) with modern cloud-native skills in Python, Ansible, Kubernetes and CI/CD, holding CKAD, CKA, RHCSA and RHCE certifications plus Red Hat specialist creds in containers and Ansible. At Rackspace he progressed from first-line support to escalation point and engineer, repeatedly delivering automation that reduced operational load and improved incident response. He mentors and interviews engineers, translating hands-on operational know-how into reusable tooling and runbooks. His academic work includes an award-winning enterprise honeypot built on CentOS/Ubuntu/Kali and VMware, reflecting a practical interest in security and observability. Based in Windsor, UK, he blends customer-focused support experience with pragmatic software engineering to accelerate troubleshooting and save teams time.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Systems and Networks, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Systems and Networks at Southampton Solent University
Github Skills (29)
memory-allocation10
linux-distribution10
oom10
redhat10
debian10
centos10
linux10
linux-kernel10
ubuntu10
out-of-memory10
python9
rhel9
access-log9
vhosts8
ddos8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LukeShirnia/nginxctl
Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
Find nginx server blocks (nginx vhosts)
Contributions:36 PRs, 27 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
nginxvhosts
rackerlabs/useful-scripts
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
A collections of useful Linux investigation tools
Contributions:4 reviews, 52 commits, 43 PRs in 2 years 3 months
linuxpostfixbuddytraffic-analyserapache2buddymysqltuner
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