Viranch Mehta is fresh out of college, with experience of one year at Directi
Internet Solutions (www.directi.com) as a Developer in Operations. He has done his
B.Tech. (ICT) from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication
Technology (www.daiict.ac.in), Gandhinagar (Gujarat). He has been a student
Developer for Google Summer of Code (www.google-melange.com) in 2011 and 2012
with the KDE (www.kde.org) project in college, and a mentor in 2013.
The author has been a Linux and system administration enthusiast since his college
days. He has built a lot of Homebrew automation programs using bash/python
scripting as daily tasks in college. He started developing extensively with the KDE
project, working primarily with the Plasma subproject, and later with the KDE
Games subproject. He has also worked on Qt (qt-project.org) applications and
writes small-scale software using Qt.
Apart from the work/hobby projects in college, the author has spent a large amount
of time as a professional, building and deploying tools for monitoring and alert
management. Directi, being an Internet solutions (such as domain name registration,
Windows/Linux hosting, contextual advertising, and so on) provider, has a
large-scale server and network infrastructure. He has also briefl y contributed
to Icinga with a few bug fi xes.
I would like to thank my fi
