Vahan Yerkanian

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About Vahan Yerkanian

With over 25 years of expertise in system and network engineering, administration, and web and embedded system development, I bring a wealth of knowledge and innovation to every project. Passionate about exploring new and exciting opportunities, I am open to remote work and roles involving travel/relocation. • Proficient in Linux, BSD Unix, Solaris, and Apple macOS system administration. Proficient with computer hardware engineering and building embedded, desktop, and highly available, fault-tolerant server systems from the ground up. • Infrastructure architecture and DevOps with Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Helm, Foreman, Docker/Podman, Kubernetes, Vagrant, GitLab CI/CD. • Server and network virtualization with Xen, XCP-NG, Proxmox, VMware ESXi, vSphere, vCloud Director, and NSX. • SAN and NAS storage system design, deployment, and management (SuperMicro, Avago/LSI, RedHat Cluster, Pacemaker, CoroSync, Heartbeat, DRBD, iSCSI, XFS, ZFS, NFS, Samba/CIFS, Minio/S3). • Full-stack website development: intranet document circulation platforms, multimedia archives, commercial storefronts, various other e-commerce, and search engine components (Nginx, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MsSQL, PHP, Node.js, Python, Perl, HTML, CSS, Redis, MongoDB). • Microelectronics and microcontrollers for embedded platform devices with custom firmware development, vendor integration, and mass-provision management (Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, Atmel, ESP8266, ESP32, Vendor-specific CPEs). • SIP, H323, and SS7 hardware systems integration and management with Asterisk, FreeSwitch, OpenSER, OpenSIPS, Kamailio, and GNUGk. • IPTV and streaming system development on Unicast, Multicast, and Anycast networks. Hands-on knowledge of DVB2IP, MPEG-TS, RTP, DASH, HLS, LL-HLS, SRT and FFMPEG manipulation. • Cisco, Arista, Juniper, and other network equipment management and administration. • General IT consulting and security audits, code marshaling on programming style, XSS, OSINT, and code security review.