Hi, I'm Asif 👋

DevOps Engineer · Linux Systems · 14 years in the terminal

I build and run Linux infrastructure, and I write about it. Most of what I've learned came from fixing things at 2am — so I document the fix properly, in the hope someone else gets to sleep through it.

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🐧 What I write

Linux Pathfinder — practical Linux guides, written for people who need the thing working today. Mail servers, system administration, networking, and the configuration details that tutorials skip.

🛠️ What I build

Project	What it is
project-kube	Multi-tier Kubernetes deployment — ingress, configmaps, secrets, persistent storage, with Postgres and Redis
Terraform-GCP	GKE provisioned end to end with Terraform — VPC, ingress controllers, Helm charts, dashboard RBAC

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🔧 Working with

Linux           Debian · Ubuntu · RHEL — administration, hardening, troubleshooting
Containers      Kubernetes · Helm · container orchestration and deployment
Cloud & IaC     GCP / GKE · Terraform · infrastructure as code
Mail            Postfix · SMTP · DKIM/SPF/DMARC
Web             Nginx · Apache · WordPress at scale · PHP
Data            PostgreSQL · MySQL/MariaDB · Redis
Infrastructure  DNS · SSL/TLS · CDN · staging workflows · deployment automation
Scripting       Bash · PHP · WP-CLI

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📫 Reach me

• 🌐 linuxpathfinder.com/contact
• 💼 LinkedIn
• 🦊 GitLab

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_{Currently: building and running Linux infrastructure, with proper staging environments and deployment automation — because testing on production is a lesson you only need to learn once.}