User:Linux-Matt-Palmer

Matt Palmer - Linux and Technology Enthusiast

Matthew Palmer, based in Ashford,Kent, England has over 15 years experience in Linux and UNIX server configuration. Including building physical servers, system installation and configuration/development of services, and good experience with Shell scripting,Perl,PHP,Apache (LAMP) and a bit of C.

Matt Palmer also has good working experience with design and implementation of Virtualisation frameworks, including VMware ESX/ESXi,Xen and more recently been instrumental in the design and implemention of a new Cloud infrastructure to support a booking API on Amazons AWS EC2 platform, using the api-tools and the Opscode platform to create recipes to make the framework quickly reproduceable and more scalable.

Matt Palmer also has projects live on sourceforge, take a look here http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpevarss and here http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysqlcapicheck, as I’m looking for volunteers on the project to help make it better

Matthew Palmer also has a long history helping in (and is a Graduate) in the HP support forums, take a look here: http://forums.itrc.hp.com, and a keen advocate of GreenIT.

Most Recently Matt was awarded 7th place worldwide in the annual Linux Foundation Linux Guru 2011 Rankings, and is actively involved in the content that is created for Linux.com and helping out in the Linux.com forums

Matt also runs his own blog at www.metallic-badger.com and writes about Linux, Cloud and Technology in general.