Summary
George Murdocca is a RHCE-certified Linux DevOps and software engineer with over 12 years of hands-on experience spanning system engineering, cloud, and information security. He has led CI/CD and automation for large fleets (about 1000 Linux systems) in a competitive financial services environment, and he built expertise with Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, Docker, and Terraform on AWS. As a founder and trainer at linuxdojo.com and an active open-source contributor, he blends practical development with security-minded design and enterprise-grade secure file transfer projects. His breadth covers Linux kernel concepts, network security, PCI-DSS compliance, SELinux, IDS/IPS, and big data, with hands-on Hadoop deployment using HDFS, YARN, Spark, Flume, Hive, and related tools. Proficient in Python and Bash, he has built web services with Django and Flask, and maintains strong Git-driven CI/CD discipline across projects. Based in Sydney, Australia, George combines entrepreneurship, teaching, and hands-on engineering to deliver scalable, production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
RHCE, Red Hat Linux, RHCE, Red Hat Linux at Red Hat GLS