Welcome !

I am a US based Independent Consultant that can help you with many UNIX/LINUX technologies and programming languages.

Contact me for a free 30 minute call or email exchange to discuss your needs in any of these areas :

  • LINUX system and network administration, operation and performance tuning for installations of all sizes.
  • Amazon Web Services EC2 implementations of virtual machines.   I have years of experience in  storage and volume management using LVM.
  • Network and communications debugging using tools like tcpdump and Wireshark .  Got high network use and don't know why?
  • apache / httpd web server installation, administration and performance turning.
  • https certificate administration such as those from Let's Encrypt and use of self-signed client certificates for access control.
  • mySQL / mariaDB installation, administration, query design and performance tuning.  Having slow queries or lags?  Lets talk.
  • bash shell scripting.  From small to large I have written and supported them all!
  • python programming using pandas and many other financial/scientific libraries.  I have worked with python since the turn of the century starting with version 1.5.
  • Commercial and Residential energy use analysis.  Need help scripting or using the popular UtilityAPI site?  Have a large energy bill and want to manage set points to optimize use of your tiered billing rates?   Contact me!
  • Do you want your OWN AWS-hosted Drupal PHP site with MariaDB, PHP and root access? I am your guy!
  • I also can help with the now unsupported zipline stock trading backtester.

contact me via email at
richard at prokopyshen dot com