Michael Kosko

Michael Kosko has a wealth of experience in the technology industry. Michael has worked for ThinkIQ as a Senior Systems Operations Engineer since 2021, Itility US as a Linux System Engineer/DevOps Engineer since 2019, and Freelance, self-employed as a System Administrator since 2017. Prior to this, they worked at AT&T as a Senior Product Development Engineer from 2010 to 2017, L-3 Communications as a Field Technician from 2009 to 2010, Micron Technology as a Technician from 2006 to 2009, Trandes Corp as an Engineering Technician from 2004 to 2006, and US Navy as an Electronics Technician from 1998 to 2004. Michael's roles have involved continuous improvement and deployment of applications, supporting operations, security, and maintenance of Linux based hosts, providing remote support, deployment and troubleshooting of servers, user management, OS patching, SSL certificate maintenance, and component level troubleshooting. Michael has a range of key skills including Linux, Ansible, Python, Shell, PKI certificates, Gitlab, Puppet, VMWare, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Bitbucket, Buildkite, Cloudera, Hadoop, Openstack, DNS, OS upgrades, Cloud Computing, databases, scripting languages, configuration management automation tools, Ethernet, TCP/IP, routing protocols, DHCP, and LDAP.

Michael Kosko obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from National University in 2016. Michael then obtained a Linux Foundation Certified SysAdmin certification from The Linux Foundation in September 2017.