My name is Ireneusz Pelech in short Irek and I'm Senior Technical Architect specializing in Linux, Automation, Virtualization and Cloud.

This pays my bills.

Personally, I'm big fan of Linux & Open Source, Virtualisation and Containerisation. I listen to Rock & Heavy Metal Music, Folk, and some electronics. I watch Syfy & Documentary movies, play arcade games. I love old 8/16 bits Computers (mostly Atari - I use to be coder in assembly language when I was teenager), White Hacking & Travelling.

During the time when I was teenager, I got my first Atari 800XL computer with tape recorder Atari XC11. This is when my journey with computers started. When my gaming fascination start finishing, I saved enough money to buy California Access 2001 floppy drive to my Atari 8-bit computer, and started learning assembly language.

This is a time when Atari Scene starting to develop in Poland. I joined Atari Scene community and started swapping with other colleagues. This is when new software and scene magazines start comming to me. It was source of my knowledge about Atari and programming languages which where available.

When I started writing my firsts programs for my 8-bit Atari, I decided that I need to have my scene nickname, and this is why on Atari Scene I'm known under Monsoft name.

Usually I was writing small tools and patches to existing application. One of the biggest application which I wrote for 8-bits Atari was 'CMC Sample Maker':

I wrote few more applications which are lost somewhere and few can be find here https://demozoo.org/sceners/34405/

When I started my 1st job as IT Technician, I created one of the 1st websites about Atari in Poland www.atari.cuprum.com.pl which is currently only available as mirror.

During my 1st job and university time, I learned how to manage Unix, Linux, Windows and networking. Additionally, I learned ANCI C and Turbo Pascal.

Since my 1st job, for next 20-something years, I use to work in IT industry on multiple positions and in multiple countries on few continents.

Currently I live and work in Ascot which is nice English Village with driving distance to London. I'm still active member of Atari community but not codding anymore (maybe there will be time to come back to this). I still have my 1st Atari computer and few more Atari computers including Atari STE and Atari Falcon 030.

I'm currently not involved in any heavy coding. My coding ability is used now in writing scripts mainly in Bash and sometimes in Python to help me automate my tasks (plugins, AWS Lambda functions and few more), writing IaC using Terraform and management/configuration code in Ansible and Cloud-Init. Sometimes I'm writing something for fun as well:

Some of my work can be find on my GitHub repository https://github.com/monsoft. Some of my scripts stop being useful, so there is no point to publish them - I wrote Kodi Multimedia Manager which allowed us to search and play videos from various of website on our Kodi instances which we have. Unfortunately, some websites stop exist so app is now not working. Unfortunately, most of my scripting is written during work time and I can't share it.

As a fan of Linux, I fully working on Linux workstation (Linux Mint is my choice of system), and I enjoy having all of my DevOps/Design tools running natively under my not so new laptop.

For many years I was hosting my mail server and various of small websites on old PC Pentium III 800MHz with installed FreeBSD system which was collocated in Datacenter located in New York (many thanks to New York Internet for supporting me), but since this old machine start getting hardware issue, I decided to move these services to home. I managed to buy static IP from my Plusnet internet provider and repurpose my 1st Raspberry Pi 1 B which was seating around. And since this time, this small computer proudly serving this website and full mail system based on Postfix and Dovecot with all running under Raspbian Linux system.

I and my whole family loves travelling, and we goes on holidays as many times as possible to catch some sun waves and see interesting places.

Side, Turkey