Nedim Hadzimahmutovic

First remote position in a US IT outsourcing company

I’m keeping project infrastructure running smoothly. This includes monitoring everything, logging activity, backing things up, and making sure all the needed services are available. I’m always on the lookout for ways to improve it too. I work with all kinds of servers, from physical ones (bare metal) to cloud-based options like AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I team up with the developers to figure out the best technology for each project. I chat with them and the client to make sure we’re all on the same page. Once we have a plan, I help them set everything up correctly and troubleshoot any problems. Basically, I’m the infrastructure techie, making sure everything runs behind the scenes for the developers. I use tools like Terraform for the cloud and Ansible for physical servers.

Helped with the process of moving an Austrian bank to the Cloud

I built services to identify, de-allocate, and shut down idle virtual machines, reducing costs. I was also involved in implementing the Branch Finder web app using a microservice architecture and deploying it on an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster.

Started as a small web agency and grew into a managed web hosting provider

A web agency and managed hosting provider. Infrastructure based on dedicated servers hosted with Hetzner and running Proxmox virtual environment. Services isolated with LXC containers running Debian Linux. Containers are deployed with custom Ansible roles. Worked with high-traffic web portals to set up services and architecture required to seamlessly handle high-load traffic. Responsible for setting up bare metal servers and containers. Worked with mail servers and web hosting panels. Managed Wordpress instances by WP-CLI and wrote custom scripting in Ruby.

For 14 years, I've gained a ton of experience managing a regional HQ.

Supporting local police agencies and other ICITAP missions by acting as a regional data center and providing email, file sharing, LDAP, and VoIP services with our infrastructure based on Dell PowerEdge 720 and 610 servers running on Xen Server virtualisation software.

First experience with IT support and working in a regional organization

I used to support the EUMM mission by providing IT assistance both in the region and remotely.

First experience with remote Linux servers and wireless networks.

I gained my first Linux skills by being part of this local Linux User Group. The local Faculty of Mechanical Engineering was the first sponsor, providing a dedicated server with a static IP address on which we run a Web and Mail server. Later, we grew and ran the first community wireless network, where we experimented with custom IPtables firewalls, an intranet, split DNS systems, and WDS, or Wireless Distribution Systems.