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Irfan Miral
15+ Years of Experience

Irfan Miral

DevOps Engineer/Systems Architect/Linux Expert

I build robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure. With over 15 years of experience, I help businesses reduce downtime, optimize cloud costs, and automate complex deployments.

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What I Offer

Scalable & Cost-Effective

Architecting bare-metal and cloud solutions that reduce operational costs by up to 40% while maintaining 99.99% uptime. I build infrastructure that scales seamlessly with your user base.

Proven Reliability

Delivering 200+ successful projects over 15 years. I bring deep expertise in Linux, Kubernetes, and AWS, alongside a problem-solving mindset and technical leadership to engineering teams.

Developer Enablement

Streamlining workflows with Terraform, Ansible, and advanced CI/CD pipelines to remove deployment bottlenecks and empower teams to ship features faster and more securely.

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Full History

DevOps Engineer & IT Specialist

Utechsoft, Inc. • 2019 — Present

Engineered cloud/bare-metal infra on AWS, OVH, Contabo. Implemented LXC on Proxmox for MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis. Developed CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CE.

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DevOps Engineer & Linux SysAdmin

Provided expert server setup and administration on cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and bare-metal servers, completing 200+ successful client projects. Engineered custom Proxmox virtualization environments with optimized LXC/VM templates for cost optimization.

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Self-Hosting Nextcloud: What I Set Up Differently From the Defaults

Nextcloud's default install works, but a handful of settings, cron, caching, upload limits, and trusted domains, separate 'it runs' from 'it runs well enough that people actually use it instead of going back to Dropbox.'

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Why ModSecurity Goes on Every Client Server by Default

ModSecurity with the OWASP Core Rule Set doesn't know anything about the specific application running behind it, and that's exactly why it's useful: it catches the generic exploit attempts that hit every server, regardless of what's actually running.

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