Aaron Toponce (pictured above, with wife Keri and daughter Jackie) is the author and maintainer of this site. I have extensive knowledge and skills in many Linux and UNIX-like environments. Such skills include Python, CSH/Bash scripting, kernel hacking, network administration, MySQL, PHP, (X)HTML, XML, CSS, C/C++, Perl and JavaScript. I have been working with Linux for many years, starting with Sun Solaris in the late ’90s, migrating through Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Debian and many others.
I currently work as a contract system administrator for a Fortune 500 company (the company will remain anonymous on this site). I administer about 40 servers, mostly of which are Red Hat Enterprise Linux. There are a few Windows Server 2003, a few HP/UX and a few Sun Solaris servers that are under my care as well. Also, along with system administration, I do a little development on the side, as well as configuration management. I work with a small team of five, only two of which are system admins.
My education currently consists of pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with an emphasis in Software Engineering both from Weber State University. My current fields of study are cryptography/encryption and web-based standards. I am also a Red Hat Certified Engineer.
If you would like to contact me, you can find me under the nick “atoponce” or “eightyeight” in #utah on irc.freenode.net. You can subscribe to my dents on Identica. I am also always available via instant messaging on Jabber only. JabberID: xmpp://aaron@aarontoponce.org.
Because encryption is such an integral part of my life, here is listed my public key. You will need it to verify any email I sends to you, as I always sign my personal email: 0×808606F.
