About me

Short professional bio

My name is Artur Gadziev and I like to think of myself as of a seasoned IT professional. Been working in the field for over 15 years already. Currently I'm more focused on the Cloud Operations side of the business: DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure (alas, AWS mainly, for they are the ones setting the tone), Security. But in general I've seen pretty much all of it (or, should I say "IT"?): big enterprise mainframes running on HPUX, AIX, Solaris and a plethora of Linux flavors; various RDBMS systems - from DB2 and Oracle to MySQL and PostgreSQL, and NoSQL, of course - Redis, Memcached, Mongo, Cassandra; a bunch of different middleware like WebLogic, WebSphere, Oracle 10gAS; a handful of main webservers - Apache, NginX, Lighttpd; programming languages from Visual Basic and Pascal to C++, Python, Java, Go, JS... Fearing that previous statement sounded a bit too arrogant, let me quote one of my favorites from Socrates, which I can't agree less with:

> The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.

Of course, some of the ancient software components I listed are well in the past for me and now I'm being excited about serverless cloud-native architectures (when it is reasonably fit for use and doesn't cost an arm and a leg), conteinerized applications, IaaC, DevSecOps, data pipelines and message brokerage systems. Probably, just the retro-style of publishing for Gemini is setting a nostalgic mood for me so I tend to reflect more on the work I've done at the rise of my career. Speaking of which: long time in the past I've managed to join a friendly "pre-Internet" network called FidoNet as a client point of a local SysOp and I can still remember my address in that network - 2:5061/6.95. Knowing this you would probably be able to get on which part of the world I am coming from, if my name doesn't sell it out immediately.

Software and tool favorites

vim

tmux

Linux

Life guiding principles

My main motivation, philosophy and life guiding principles boil down to the two main points:

GYSHIDO for work

Stoicism for life

Likes and hobbies

I really like to drink tea of any kind and learn more about this drink that comforts humanity for over two millenia. Personal tea favorites: Jin Jun Mei, Tieguanyin, but I also enjoy Chen Pi Pu'er as well.

I'm also a bit of a bookworm. Favorite authors include: Julio Cortázar, Erich Maria Remarque, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Dan Brown, Terry Pratchett, Mikhail Lermontov, Boris Akunin.