About

lp0 on fire: Adventures in modern UNIX/Linux system administration.

In my day job, I am a system administrator for the Galaxy Project in the Nekrutenko Lab at Penn State University. Most notably, I architect and maintain the deployment of usegalaxy.org, a free service integrating compute resources across the country.

Back in the day, I ran Solaris, leaving me with an old(ish) school UNIX bent and a soft spot for illumos, especially SmartOS. Now they call what I do “DevOps” and “Infrastructure as Code”, but at the end of the day, it’s all just system administration.

Any views expressed on this site are my own, and are not the views of my employer or projects/teams of which I am a member.