About
Waleed Hamra — Linux infrastructure engineer
I design, automate, migrate, and troubleshoot production infrastructure, with particular depth in hosting platforms and multi-tenant Linux systems.
A career built around making imperfect systems operational
I began operating my own Linux mail and virtualisation systems in 2008. That grew into long-term support for small clients, then broader infrastructure roles in commercial, humanitarian, and hosting environments.
Today my work centres on a high-traffic VPS and seedbox platform: Linux node standards, OpenVZ and Proxmox LXC, Ansible automation, customer application delivery, Prometheus/Thanos/Grafana observability, performance work, and the operational details that connect those systems.
I am based in Moscow and work remotely in English or Arabic, with conversational Russian and basic French.
Hosting infrastructure
Virtualisation nodes, customer containers, application platforms, monitoring, automation, and migration engineering.
Enterprise and humanitarian ICT
Directory services, workstation deployment, backup automation, cloud migration, database performance, and emergency operating standards.
Remote and constrained environments
Networks, satellite connectivity, branch-office systems, unreliable links, and infrastructure that must remain supportable by local teams.
Selected background
Experience across different operating contexts
Hosting platform engineering — 2023 to present
Infrastructure engineering for a large remote VPS/seedbox estate: virtualisation, automation, monitoring, application delivery, capacity work, R&D, and platform modernisation.
UN Refugee Agency — 2016 to 2022
ICT infrastructure and support in Lebanon, including Active Directory migration for more than 120 users, deployment automation, database performance, backup operations, and cloud-service migration.
Construction operations in Nigeria — 2014 to 2015
IT management across headquarters and remote sites: directory services, network redesign, QoS, satellite connectivity, accounting-data synchronisation, MySQL performance, and backups.
Independent systems administration — since 2008
Linux mail systems, DNS, virtualisation, backups, Nextcloud, and infrastructure support for small organisations and long-term private clients.
Need someone who can move between architecture and the shell?
That boundary—between system design and operational implementation—is where I am most useful.