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Andrey Penkov

educationEducation

New Bulgarian University, Sofia

Degree: Bachelor of Computer Music

Time Period: 2020 - 2024

Secondary school Hristo-Yasenov, Etropole

Degree: Secondary education

Time Period: 2016 - 2020

work-experience Experience

CloudSigma AG

Position: Technical Support engineer

Time Frame: January 2023 - April 2025

  • Monitoring cloud systems for performance issues, potential threats and outages. Taking proactive and active measures to prevent service disruptions.
  • Assisting customers with cloud service management, including VMs, storage and network configurations.
  • Managing and troubleshooting various operating systems - Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, NetBSD.
  • Conducting system evaluations and quality assesments.

TexExperts

Position: Technical Support engineer

Time Frame: March 2022 - Semptember 2022

  • Identifying, investigating and resolving users problems with the software and hardware.
  • Researching, diagnosing, troubleshooting and identifying solutions to resolve system issues.

projects Projects

Home lab server

Home server with first layer virtualization from ProxMox for creating personal projects and expanding my knowledge. There I host the following:

  • OpenVPN server - Basic OpenVNP server set up for connecting to the home network, when traveling away from home. It is also used for monitoring the traffic over the network.
  • Minecraft server - PaperMC server build on LXC container. Everything from network, maintenance, updates and security is managed by me.
  • CV website - Basic website used to showcase my work, build using HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript.
  • Linktree website - Linktree type of website build by me to serve my main domain and forward potential visitors.
  • Local DNS server - Pi hole DNS server build on Docker container to manage my home network DNS.
  • Nginx proxy manager - Proxy manager to compliment the local DNS server, by managing traffic to the appropriate ports.
  • Mail server - MailCow mail server build in Docker container, used to manage automated emails for my services.
  • Personal finance app - Firefly3 app build in Docker container, used to manage the finances of my family.
  • Private cloud storage - AndyCloudStorage is a private cloud storage solution, similar to Gdrive, for storing files, backups and more.
  • Media server - Plex media server for downloading and streaming movies and shows

trait Traits & IT Knowledge

IT Knowledge:

  • Windows system administration
  • Linux system administration
  • Network Administration
  • Basic scripting
  • Hardware maintenance skills
  • Basic HTML,CSS, PHP and JavaScript

Traits:

  • Team player
  • Responibility
  • Motivated
  • Ambitioned
  • Possitive
  • Organized