Luis Salas

I'm an IT professionals who collaborate with software developers, system operators and other IT staff members to manage code releases. They cross and merge the barriers that exist between software development, testing and operations teams and keep existing networks in mind as they design, plan and test.

Network administrator • I've worked 5 years as a Network Manager: organizing the IT department to provide support for the development company and our customers. • 13 years administrating a call center core for a customer, handling their LAN and WAN technologies (routing and switching), designing and maintaining their high availability systems, working with their database infrastructure, servers on the cloud (AWS services), some web services, specially Linux server (RedHat , Centos, Ubuntu) and automation (python and bash). I'm on charge of the security core too for the same customer (firewalls, IDS, IPS, SSL, VPN, Tunneling) and even organizing their technicians in some specifics works. • 18 years as a Dev support for the Main company: I provide support creating, tuning and maintaining the infrastructure needed by the developers, web developers, designers and the DBA, is one of my responsibilities to keep the system working, and to give assistance to them, troubleshooting network, apps and performance issues together. Tunning services like Apache, Nginx, oracle DB, Mysql, wordpress, PHP, PHP-fpm, linux Socket.

• I was the Network Administrator in charge of the complete hosting system, WAN LAN, Security and the whole web services involved. Most of the jobs was installing, configuring, tuning and administrating the system for 10 different sites, and sometimes helping the main software provider with some troubleshooting and improvement in their software, provider where I'm currently working (CIST S.A.).

• Tech Support for the customers of the company in hardware, software, especially linux, was part time job, working at the same time at the University (UTP). • In charge of a project with some medical labs, installing, tuning and administrating a system to handle medical devices, working with people from Spain and Panamá.

• Net Admin, In charge of the installation, configuration and administration of Internet and local Services, most of these running in Linux, but some others in Windows NT, Novell Network, SCO and Freebsd servers, I was in charge of the WAN and LAN network too. • Be a Tech Manager was one of my functions there, in charge of three technicians, providing together hardware and software troubleshooting, administrating a Computer Lab and giving support to some apps and a DB for the enrollment system. • Tutor in different internet technologies for some external companies like Xerox Panamá.

One the most beautiful thing is to keep a green world, most of the job have been done by my wife but we work together in the plan, the idea is to have a susteinable home, with green gardens, with some fruits and vegetables grwoing around the home, harvesting water, using solar energy, improving our home to use better the sun light, and the wind, electrical cars, motivating the use of bike, and so on, thing to protect the nature, starting from home. We have 7 years winning the blue flag of the green program called "hogar sostenible" by the AYA. - 2014, winners of a blue flag with 3 white stars. - 2015, winners of a blue flag with 5 white stars. - 2016, winners of a blue flag with 5 white stars. - 2017, winners of a blue flag with 5 white stars. - 2018, winners of a blue flag with 5 white stars. - 2019, winners of a blue flag with 5 white stars. - 2020, winners of a blue flag with 5 white stars and 1 silver star.

Helping kids and youth to be healthy and active with the practice of sport, in this case Triathlon and Help with the treasury, organizing activities like one of the big national triathlon kids competition in Costa Rica, helping the kids of the team in different stuff, we work with the biggest kids and young triathlon team of the country, around 120 kids.

Helping to the community in different thing related with the condo.

Treasury, secretary and then president, helping to improve the situation of the condo.

Working with 5 different universities, 4 from Panamá and 1 from Spain testing technologies and design optimum environments to handle audio and video using the International Multicast Backbone (MBONE PROJECT)