About Us

A team of IT experts in Canada working with Linux since 1994. Focused on details, patient and friendly.

Crafty Penguins is a growing team of 13 Linux experts, some of whom have decades of experience with Linux technologies. We are a Linux IT consulting firm with a sister company Kerkhoff Technologies, which is a Microsoft Windows MSP.

Although Kerkhoff Technologies and Crafty Penguins are two separate companies with different specialties, we’re one team. We all use the same ticket system, Slack and Wiki, sit at the same physical office and have the same leadership team.

This comes quite handy when our clients need us to support both Linux and Windows systems or if our Windows team needs a hand with API integration, troubleshooting SQL or hardware issues.

We bring to the table in-depth expertise, effective communication, detailed documentation and smooth project management. But if you’ve ever had an IT consultant rolling their eyes at you or asking you “if you tried switching it off and on” as if you were a five-year-old, you know that expertise alone isn’t enough.

We earn your trust

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 lean into challenges

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 look at the bigger picture

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 constantly improve

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.