Zabbix Training Upgrade Courses

Every new long-term Zabbix release comes with updated functionality and added features.

Upgrade courses allow already certified Zabbix Specialists and Professionals to update their knowledge with the latest Zabbix release.

Kārlis Saliņš has more than 5 years of experience working as a System Administrator, DBA, and 4+ years of experience working with Zabbix. Before pursuing opportunities and professional development at Zabbix, Kārlis worked in the finance sector in a team responsible for the availability of core banking services. Currently, Karlis is a Certified Zabbix Expert and a Zabbix Trainer and works as a Technical Support Engineer.

Ryan has worked with servers and networks for more than 20 years. Surveillance quickly caught his interest and it has been a big part of his career. His paths crossed with Zabbix back in 2007, and he has been using Zabbix as IT, Consul, and Teaching. He has also worked with web hosting, surveillance, streaming, e-commerce, and IT-security.

As a graduate of a Computer Sciences and a Linux-certified professional, Victor has been working with IT infrastructures starting 2016, when he had the opportunity to get to know Zabbix as a user and become a proud member of the community. Today, he's working as a Support Engineer in Zabbix on a global level and providing training for future Zabbix specialists and professionals.

Alex van de Pas is an IT professional and has over 20 years’ experience in IT. With his broad spectrum of knowledge in Windows, Linux and networking, Alex now maintains chains of applications at the big compagnies in the Netherlands. As these need to be monitored, Alex looked for a flexible monitoring tool. This is where Zabbix came in. As Xifeo is a Zabbix partner, Alex started to look into Zabbix and loved the flexibility of it. Certified since Zabbix 4.0, Alex wanted to spread the knowledge about Zabbix and became a Certified Zabbix trainer as well.

Marek Konečný has been dealing with IT monitoring solutions since 2001. Marek works for Axians Slovakia s.r.o.. He is the architect and implementer of dozens of large-scale monitoring solutions for many customers based on several products (HP, CA, Micro Focus...). He has been implementing monitoring solutions primarily built on the Zabbix platform since 2013. Marek is also the author of several extensions and modules for Zabbix.

Edgars MelverisTechnical Support Engineer, Trainer, Zabbix SIAEdgars has more than 15 years of experience as a System Administrator and 11 years of experience working with Zabbix monitoring solution. He is knowledgeable in administering Linux and networking. Edgars is Zabbix Technical Support Engineer and Certified Trainer.

In his previous roles, he has been responsible for monitoring and managing the infrastructure of companies, in both physical and logical resources. As an experienced infrastructure administrator and DevOps, he have a strong background in monitoring and troubleshooting complex technical environments. Throughout his career, he has always used Zabbix to ensure the health and performance of systems and applications. That led him to follow the certification path to become a Certified Trainer.

Thomas got his first taste of databases with “DB2” on “SGI irix” at the tender age of 10. He has focused on relational databases such as “Microsoft SQL Server”, \PostgreSQL\ and “MySQL/MariaDB” for over 17 years. His experience in the design of databases and associated performance optimization provides the ideal basis for Zabbix with its database back-end. He is also a professional in Windows environments, Linux and networking.

Thomas has held database training courses for more than 15 years; he also works as a database consultant. He is a Zabbix Certified Professional and a Zabbix Certified Trainer, the first in Zabbix 4.0 since October 2018. He delivers training in German and English. His experience with Zabbix stretches back over more than 10 years.

Rhein-Main Solutions GmbH has been a Zabbix Certified Solution Partner since January 2017 and a Zabbix Certified Training Partner since October 2018.

Since 1994, François-Hugues was involved with customers from different sectors - public, private, industry, service, telecom, banking - for consulting or deployment of monitoring solutions (based both on licensed and open-source software), i.e., planning and scheduling these solutions. In 2016, through his analysis of software market, François-Hugues chose to accelerate the use of Zabbix monitoring solution and formalize his expertise in it by attending Zabbix certified training, meanwhile continuing the implementations of Zabbix solution. François-Hugues became Zabbix Certified Trainer in October 2019.

Bartosz started his IT career in 2016. Throughout the years he gained experience in a vast range of IT sectors - ranging from worldwide ISP to small local companies. Bartosz has a strong background in the network design and troubleshooting and implementation of virtualization solutions.

Tomas is working in initMAX s.r.o. and is a big fan of opensource, that includes Zabbix monitoring solution. He specializes in application servers, automation and monitoring. Over the past ten years, he has been involved in the implementation of several large-scale projects having immense positive impact on customer IT environment. Tomas was awarded the highest level of certification by Red Hat (Certified Red Hat Architect) in 2016.

Paulo Roberto Deolindo Júnior is a Systems Analyst specializing in Information Technology Project Management and Production and Systems. Paulo is a Zabbix Certified Expert of version 6.0 and acts as a project mentor of Unirede. He also holds specific certifications in Project Management, Information Security and Cybernetics, and is observing Data Protection Laws in Brazil and around the world, such as the GDPR.

Robert Hoekstra is a professional in his field of work. With decades of Linux experience, a number of Red Hat certifications to earn Red Hat Certified Architect status as well as the number of certifications towards becoming a Zabbix trainer, he knows what he’s talking about. And also, his main drive is to share knowledge and expertise. His goal is to make the students understand the product and succeed at their exam, in order to put their gained knowledge to work afterwards.

Aleksandrs has more than 10 years of experience in IT, providing support on the vast list of services, starting with basic technical support while deploying and administering web hosting services and moving to support of streaming technology equipment, data, optical systems, and network communication systems.Eventually, the wish of providing high-quality support in a constantly evolving environment of Zabbix led to the path of a Support Engineer for Zabbix customers, which was followed by Zabbix Certified Specialist, Professional and Expert certifications, to allow sharing experience and knowledge of Zabbix all around the globe.

Over 10 years of experience with Windows computers, but "deep down in my heart, there is this little bash terminal, which always makes me happy", says Aigars. Aigars' attention has been driven by single board computers, low power devices, docker containers, web scrapping and monitoring in general. Loves one-liners. Kickstarting is a thing. Programming languages are all the same: there is sequence, loops, and it's hard to read the code when you are in a hurry. Aigars has started to work with Zabbix as of version 3.4, he holds Zabbix Certified Specialist, Professional and Expert certifications.

Arturs Lontons has more than 5 years experience in different IT-related positions - from managing various business applications and internal procedures, in academic and retail environments, to working as a part of a large support and administration team in the aviation industry - managing diverse aspects of mixed Linux and Windows server infrastructure, setting up and configuring network equipment and working on improving internal IT workflows.After having worked with Zabbix in his previous work positions, Arturs decided to take up his next challenge and become a part of the Zabbix team. Having certified as a Zabbix Professional and Trainer, Arturs now works as a Technical Support Engineer at Zabbix and conducts Zabbix training courses.

Robert has been working with Zabbix since 2014 to monitor various IT components, and using his knowledge in IT administration to automate things with Python and to deliver custom solutions.

Robert shares his knowledge freely during internal workshops as well as lectures provided for high schools and universities.

Patrik had 16 years of experience in IT and monitoring of mainframes before joining Open-Future, B.V.B.A in 2012. The company is a long-time partner of Zabbix and one of the first training partners. Patrik has been involved in the delivery of several successful Zabbix projects to customers in Belgium. In the beginning of 2013, Patrik decided to progress to the next level and attended training in Riga to become a Zabbix Certified Trainer. Since then Patrik has delivered several trainings worldwide and has written several successful books about Zabbix. His first book the Zabbix Cookbook and his last book Zabbix 4 Network monitoring.

Robert has been working with Zabbix since 2014 to monitor various IT components, and using his knowledge in IT administration to automate things with Python and to deliver custom solutions.

Robert shares his knowledge freely during internal workshops as well as lectures provided for high schools and universities.

Steve is an open-source technology consultant, specialized in Zabbix. He is Zabbix Certified Expert and Trainer. He has founded his own company IZI-IT to support enterprises in their efforts of ensuring healthy IT environments and preventing service outages, as well as training projects. Steve is an active Zabbix evangelist who speaks at conferences, organizes meetups in France and also is Certified Zabbix Partner.

Ever since his first job in application support, searching through log files and database tables, Mark has been monitoring things. Working with backends for domain name registrars, DNS providers, AWS cloud for connected smart locks, or keeping track of big corporate infrastructures, there's always something new to pick up. Since 2021 he has been focused on developing the best monitoring solutions possible, now with Zabbix at its core.

Christian Anton has many years of experience with IT Monitoring, network technologies, and Open Source Software. He has worked as a consultant and pre-sales engineer at several mid-sized and large customers and now leads a team of highly skilled consultants that work in the area of Containerization, Micro Services, Automation, and Monitoring at enthus GmbH. Zabbix is the strategic product for monitoring all kinds of IT environments at enthus GmbH to support customers in making their IT operations more reliable and giving quick insights in case of incidents. Enthus offers services, support, implementation, custom development, and training's for and with Zabbix.

With more than 20 years of experience in the technology environment and firmly committed to the use and promotion of free software. Gustavo has held various positions from programmer to database administrator and Linux administrator, detecting potential risk scenarios and taking proactive actions to avoid them. He’s always interested in sharing and acquiring new knowledge.

Dimitri Bellini is a senior Zabbix Expert in Quadrata (Italy and UAE). He had over 15 years of Unix/Linux experience within the enterprise environment with extensive knowledge of complex monitoring scenarios. Dimitri has been using Zabbix since 2005 and he has implemented multiple big installations of Zabbix in the most known Italian companies. Zabbix holds Certified Trainer certificate since 2013.

Dimitri characterizes himself as an Open Source solutions evangelist.