Problem-Solving:

• Analytical thinking and problem-solving
• Ability to think outside the box and develop creative solutions
• Experience in troubleshooting complex issues and identifying root causes

Programming Languages:

Python:

• Proficient in:
  • Core Python:
    • Data Structures
    • Control Flow
    • Functions (instance, static, and class methods)
    • Decorators (properties, wrappers, getters and setters)
  • Object-Oriented Programming:
    • Inheritance and Polymorphism
    • Encapsulation and Abstraction
    • Mixins
    • __dunder__ magic methods for classes
    • Metaprogramming
    • Design Patterns (Factory Methods and Singletons)
    • Data manipulation (JSON, CSV, YAML and Parquet)
    • Functional Programming
    • Exception handling
    • File I/O
    • Systems administration scripting
    • Asynchronous programming
    • Web scraping
    • Optimization techniques (including cprofile and timeit)
    • Command line apps (Argparse)
    • Docstrings and Type Hints
    • Unit testing (pytest)
    • Logging
    • Serialization with Pickle and Shelve
• Libraries:
  • Pydantic
  • Selenium
  • Pandas
  • beautifulsoup4
  • requests
  • Pyarrow
  • Jinja
  • Numpy
  • Pytest
• Development Tools:
  • Poetry
  • Mypy
  • black
  • autopep8

Scripting:

• Proficient in:
  • Python scripting for Windows, Linux and MacOS
    • Bash, Posix sh, and ZSH scripting for managing Linux and MacOS
    • PowerShell scripting for Windows

Web Programming:

• Proficient in:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Vanilla JavaScript and basic TypeScript

Databases:

• Proficient in:
  • SQL databases including MySql and Postgresql
  • NoSQL databases including MongoDB
  • Sqlite for simple caching

Java:

• Proficient in:
  • Core Java (OOP concepts, primitive data types, control flow)
  • Exception handling
  • File I/O
  • Database connectivity (JDBC for SQL)
  • Build tools:
    • Maven
    • Gradle
  • Building user interfaces with JavaFX/OpenJFX (using FXML)

Development Tools:

• Git (Github, Gitlab)
• VSCode
• Build Tools (build automation):
  • Meson, CMake, Autotools (libtool, Make)

Command line & Systems Administration:

• Proficient and comfortable on the command line with extensive experience in various areas, including:
• Network Management: SSH, scp, rsync, curl, wget, aria2
• Security: gpg, openpgp
• System Administration:
  • File System Management: Proficient in partitioning, formatting, and managing filesystems (e.g., XFS, BTRFS, LVM and RAID with experience in tool usage like cfdisk, fdisk, gdisk and parted)
  • Network file systems: NTFS and Samba
  • Bootloader Configuration: Experienced in configuring bootloaders for different system types (UEFI/BIOS) and partition schemes (MBR/GPT) with GRUB and Systemd-boot, including dual booting Windows and Linux
  • Utilities: top/atop/htop, df, du, find, etc.
  • Text manipulation: grep, ripgrep, sed, awk, tr, cut
  • Network monitoring: nmap, netcat, tcpdump, iptables
  • Systemd services, CRON jobs

Operating Systems:

• Proficient on any operating system:

  • Linux:

    • Extensive experience with Gentoo Linux, Arch Linux, and Debian-based distros (e.g., Ubuntu, Mint)
    • Familiar with NixOS, RHEL-based distros (e.g., Red Hat, CentOS, Rocky, Fedora), and SUSE Linux

  • BSD:

    • Familiar with OpenBSD and FreeBSD

  • Windows: Advanced power-usage with Powertoys

    • WSL

  • macOS

  • Package managers for all of these:

    • Adept at using package managers across various distributions: APT, pacman (AUR), nix, dnf/yum, portage, zypper, winget/scoop, and Homebrew

Containerization:

• Docker
• Virtual Box
• HyperV
• Vmware