Tomasz Zen Napierala

Current

Systems Architecture Engineer, IT Infrastructure Departament at QXL Poland Sp. z o.o. - Allegro.pl

Past

Systems Administrator at DB Alliance Ltd.
IT Specialist at Maroonpoint Polska
Journalist at Software-Wydawnictwo

IT Specialist at Internet-Info Sp. z o.o.

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Education

Cork Institute of Technology
Wyzsza Szkola Komunikacji i Zarzadzania w Poznaniu
Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace w Nowym Tomyslu

Midvale School for the Gifted

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Tomasz Zen Napierala’s Summary

Systems Administrator with strong experience managing mixed hosting environments, designing scalable and available, large scale systems. Focused on content delivery and inter-system integration.
Good application servers and database skills. Always interested in unusual project. GTD fan and user. Speaker and FLOSS evangelist and user.

Tomasz Zen Napierala’s Specialties:

CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu Server, Tomcat, JBoss, ColdFusion, RHEL, SLES, hosting environments, web technologies efficiency, centralised management (Avocent technologies), inter-systems integration (authorization, authentication), version control systems

Tomasz Zen Napierala’s Experience

Systems Architecture Engineer, IT Infrastructure Departament

QXL Poland Sp. z o.o. - Allegro.pl

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Consumer Services industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

I'm a part of the team responsible for managing 350+ servers. We are running proxy farms, web farms, several databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL) on different platforms: Linux, AIX (on p590) etc.
Systems Administrator

DB Alliance Ltd.

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 8 months)

I'm responsible for day-to-day administration of servers, including shared hosting servers, dedicated servers, virtualised environment, database servers etc. on Linux (RedHat, SLES, Debian) as well as Windows platform.
I'm also in charge of maintaining highest possible security and continuity of services.
IT Specialist

Maroonpoint Polska

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 1 month)
Journalist

Software-Wydawnictwo

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

January 2002 — January 2004 (2 years 1 month)

Editor for Debian Linux column
IT Specialist

Internet-Info Sp. z o.o.

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2003 — September 2003 (8 months)

Tomasz Zen Napierala’s Education

Cork Institute of Technology

BSc , Computing, IT Support, Software Development, System Administration, Database Administration , 2006 — 2007
Wyzsza Szkola Komunikacji i Zarzadzania w Poznaniu

IT in management, economy, marketing 1997 — 1999
Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace w Nowym Tomyslu
Midvale School for the Gifted

MSc ,

Additional Information

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Tomasz Zen Napierala’s Interests:

IT, climbing, photography, cooking, vegetarian cuisine, economy

Tomasz Zen Napierala’s Groups:

Polish Linux Users Group, SPI, Inc., Internet Society Poland, ACTUS IT Education Association, MyCork Polish Association in Cork, Polish Debian Documentation Project, Wikipedia, CentOS