Pascal Charest

First, I'm an GNU/Linux hacker and an hardcore geek.

Then, I'm the owner of "Les Laboratoires Phoenix", a cutting-edge free software consultancy firm. My enterprise's clients are located in more than 6 countries and require services ranging from server administration to subject matter expert consultation (for software such as: Zimbra, Zabbix, MySQL, GlusterFS, Asterisk, OpenSolaris, AoE, DRBD, OpenLDAP... ). A series of papers were also published on custom SAN solution, embedded system, high scalability, reliability and fault tolerance in numerous Europeans GNU/Linux magazine.

The world of on-demand computing, recently renamed Cloud Computing, is an important part of my day-to-day work. since I regularly complete mandates as an information systems performance specialist for infrastructure based on the extended LAMP stack (Gnu/Linux,{Apache, NGINX},{MySQL, Postgresql, Oracle},{php, java, ruby}).