Alibi Mohamed - Mastering CentOS 7 Linux Server

Mohamed Alibi is a Linux System administrator at the training team of the European Bio-informatics Institute EMBL-EBI at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus. He got his master's degree in Network System and Telecom from the Faculty of Sciences of the Tunis El Manar University, with an internship held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.

He started his career as a system and network administrator at Institut Pasteur de Tunis from 2011 to 2015. During this time, he got associated with the network project H3ABioNet. He held the title of the co-chair of the Infrastructure Working Group, helping the development and enhancement of the computer infrastructure of project nodes. Between 2014 and 2015, he started his career as a part-time professor at Superior Institute of Biotechnology of Sidi Thabet, then, as a system administrator trainer with the University of Pretoria as part of the project H3ABioNet. At the end of 2015, Mohamed got his current position as a Linux system administrator with the European Bio-informatics Institute.

He reviewed a book about CentOS 7 troubleshooting in late 2014 and early 2015.

I would like to acknowledge my family for their constant support and my friends and colleagues for their help and their guiding advices. Special thanks go to my fiance for her enormous love and daily encouragement to move forward in my career, and finally, I would like to thank all my work colleagues and supervisors for giving me the opportunity to expand my knowledge and my experience.

Bhaskarjyoti Roy is a Linux and open source enthusiast with more than 12 years of experience in Linux system administration, virtualization, and cloud computing.

He provides his services to many companies and organizations on a daily basis. He learns from his experience, which he has gained through self-learning and serving clients regularly. He has built more than 100 servers based on various CentOS versions running different types of services such as virtualization, web-server, e-mail, DNS, and many more.

He is currently working with gotcha! Mobile Solutions, a Dallas based digital marketing agency specializing in local SEO, mobile web apps, and custom web development projects.

I am thankful to my wife Hema, without whom this would never have been possible. I am grateful to my mom, my sis, and other family members and friends who have always stood beside me. I would like to thank Mr. Krishnendu Paul (KP), Mr. Indranil Dasgupta (IDG) and Mr. Chanchal Debnath for their support and encouragement. Special thanks go to Mr. Christopher Jenkin, CEO, and Mr. Hassan Khawaja, Director of Operations, gotcha! Mobile Solutions, who always encouraged me to achieve and perform better.

Sayyed Mehdi Poustchi Amin (RHCE, RHCSA, CCNA, MCITP, MCTS, MCSE, MCSA, and MCP) has 15 years of experience in the information technology industry. He is a senior datacenter system administrator in a reputed company in Toronto. He worked as a developer, and later as a system administrator at Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, Iran from 2000 to 2010. He was a PhD research student in computer science at SIU, India before moving to Canada. In early 2008, he founded the Iran Honeynet Project website, which provides security-related information regarding the latest attacks observed by a network of honeypots.

Mehdi strongly appreciates his wife Hediyeh's constant support of his career endeavors. He wants to thank her for all of her support through this project.

Benjamin KRAFT is a system administration team leader in a major internet service provider based in Luxembourg. Benjamin Kraft also operates for a well-known European DNS registrar, a VoIP operator, and a SaaS platform provider.

Passionate and curious about everything related to IT, he specializes in virtualization, storage, Linux systems, and monitoring.

Frank Lemmon has been a practicing software quality engineer for more than three decades. He has broad experience in systems ranging from legacy mainframe computers, to contemporary Windows, Macintosh, Android, and Linux based systems.

He has worked at a number of companies including start-ups and big-name players. Currently, he's working for a public company in the student services sector, where he enjoys enabling new generations of students to attain their higher education in a cost-effective and productive fashion.

Frank acted as a reviewer for CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook by Packt Publishing and also helped review OWASP Developer's Guide, second edition.

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