About Your Trainer
Brian K. Jones
Brian has been working with production UNIX and Linux servers for over a decade, in environments ranging from Fortune 100 enterprises, to academia and research, to web 2.0 startups. Brian prides himself on best practices in systems architecture, security, and data management. An IT generalist, he has a wealth of experience in all facets of administration in a UNIX/Linux environment, from simple services like DHCP, NTP, NFS, FTP, SSH, NIS, and LDAP, to complex scaling and redundancy configurations for databases, web servers, and proxy servers, to multi-sourced infrastructures involving various cloud-based technologies, and full-scale high performance computing.
Brian has also written his fair share of code in Perl, Python, PHP, and a few others. He is the creator of Python Magazine, and former Editor in Chief of php|architect magazine. He also co-authored Linux Server Hacks, Vol. 2 for O’Reilly Media in 2005.
Brian maintains a “geek blog” here, and his CV can be found here. He can be reached at jonesy@owladvisors.com