We consider ourselves a part of your team and care about your project as much as you do. We listen to you carefully, ask questions, follow through with our promises and keep our work transparent to help you navigate technology even if you may not fully understand how it works.
We aren’t afraid of bruising our egos, and we’ll admit that it’s a difficult task or an unknown component if we encounter one. We are happy to learn, seek other perspectives, and lean on experience and knowledge of others to help you run your business more efficiently.
We are your competent partner who not just puts out occasional fires but who is familiar with your IT landscape and sees the bigger picture. To provide you with solutions that last and scale, we consider internal relationships, context, market, industry and impact on other systems.
We always try to be better today than yesterday. For example, we make incremental improvements to your documentation and automatic monitoring systems or remove redundant items that don’t help you. And we share new knowledge and experience within our team to help every member grow.
President – Crafty Penguins/ CFO
Chris has 28 years of experience with Linux and DevOps. His experience in business matched with his technical knowledge puts Crafty Penguins in a unique position to provide sound advice and guidance for client infrastructures. He specializes in building microservice container infrastructures, bare metal to cloud computing migrations, and custom tool and integration development.
VP – Engineering/ CIO
Richard has 35 years of experience with systems administration and software engineering in the Linux ecosystem. He specializes in DevOps, automation, systems architecture, training and frugal clean-up of technical debt. He has been using deploying and managing Linux environments in production since the mid 90s. With CKA and CKAD certifications, he is a strong proponent of the Kubernetes platform for container management due to its elegance and scope.
Linux Systems Engineer/ Team Lead
Curtis has 20 years of experience deploying and securing Linux systems and 6 years of experience in DevOps engineering. He specializes in system audits for security, stabilization, and migration of infrastructure due to system growth.
Linux Systems Engineer/ Team Lead
Kevin, who is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator, has over 5 years of experience in Linux server administration in a variety of areas such as DevOps, containerization, and automation. He has an interest in evolving his automation and DevOps skills.
Linux Systems Engineer/ Team Lead
Mike has been working with Linux systems for over 25 years, with experience in development, systems engineering, administration, and testing. His specialties include microservices, cloud operations, containerization, and web technologies. He first discovered Linux in the 90's, and has been a staunch supporter and advocate ever since.
Sr. Linux Systems Engineer
Nicole has 10 years of experience with Linux, software engineering, and DevOps. She specializes in monitoring, metrics, and alerting, as well as our proprietary security automation systems of Crafty Penguins we use for all our clients.
Linux Systems Engineer
Nishan has over 8 years of Linux and DevOps experience in Cloud Operations support as well as retail software development. He has a keen interest in all things DevOps. His astute sense of reasoning helps him get to the core of an issue and resolve it quickly.
Linux Systems Engineer
Over 15 years of experience in Linux server administration in a variety of environments. Jordan contributes with his existing skill set in web technologies, application integration, and troubleshooting, while continuing to evolve his DevOps and security abilities.
Linux Systems Engineer
Alan has been working in the IT industry for 25 years, and has experience in system engineering, development, system administration and technical support. He specializes in linux system engineering, which has been his love since he discovered Linux in the early 2000s.
Linux Systems Specialist
Conner has been a Systems Administrator for 15 years; with a focus on Networking and Linux. His passion for Linux and System administration came from a need for a multiplayer Minecraft server during college. To this day, the administration of the server is more fun than the game itself.
Linux Systems Specialist
Shayan is a CKA and CKD-certified DevOps professional with 5 years of experience in Linux server administration on Debian-based systems. He specializes in container orchestration, infrastructure as code, automation (using tools like Salt and Terraform), and system monitoring. Shayan is passionate about streamlining deployments and advancing his skills in cloud-native technologies.
Linux Systems Specialist
Linux Systems Specialist
Linux Systems Specialist
Linux Systems Specialist