Consulting and contract work

In addition to the training courses you can al get help with hands on consulting or contract work.

Training

These training courses can provide a huge productivity boost to the tunes of 5-10%. Even if we take the more conservative number and even if we take in account both the cost of the course and the time the employee spent on the course you will see a positive return on investment within 2 months. As measured by value created to your organization.

Host Local provides training in or near your offices and the training days can last a full day or half days as well. This allows the employees to spend the hours after lunch working in the company. Even implementing the newly learned techniques.

Hostlocal Ltd. is run by Gabor Szabo who has been consulting and training at hi-tech companies since 2000.

Major Topics

• Python Courses
• Rust Courses
• Perl Courses
• DevOps Courses

Available training courses

• From idea to delivery in less than 4 hours
• Introduction to Git
• Advanced Git, methodologies and workflows
• GitHub
• Google Cloud
• Docker
• Setting up Continuous Integration with Jenkins
• Linux for power users (Using the Linux shell)
• Getting started with Linux in a local virtual environment
• Bash Scripting
• Learning Regular Expressions
• Programming Bootcamp for Scientist
• Advanced course for Scientists
• Perl Programming (beginner level)
• Perl Testing
• Python Programming (beginner level)
• Rust (beginner level)
• Web application development with Python Flask (beginner level)
• Python: Advanced Python Programming
• Python: Testing and test-automation in Python

Sample customized course

• Advanced Python

Previous clients

Some of the previous clients: Actelis, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Amdocs, Apply Tech, Assa Abloy (Rav Bariach), Bezeq International, BGU/Deutsche Telekom (Israel), Breach, Brodmann17, Cellex, CEVA DSP, Cisco, Checkpoint, Deutsche Telekom (Germany), DNV Norway, Evogene, ExLibris, Forescout, Harmonic systems, iCarbonX, Inomize, Intel, Iskoot, Jovial, KLA-Tencor, LSI, Mercury Interactive, Migdal Insurance, MyThings, NDS, Norwegian Meteorological Inst, Orange (Partner Ltd.), Orpak, Perfecto Mobile, Qualcomm, Radware, Sandvine, SAP, Screenovate, SeaBridge Networks - A Siemens company, Sheer Networks, Superfish, Superfly, Twiggle, Verint, Weizmann Institute of Science, Zoran

About Gabor Szabo

Gabor has been using computers since 1982 when he entered high-school in Hungary. Since then he moved to Israel, finished a Bsc in Computer Sciences and an MBA in Information Technology in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Worked at a number of companies as programmer, system administrator, and automation engineer before he became self-employed in 2000.

Since then he provides consulting/contract work services and training in fields that are related to improving software development practices and DevOps. This includes version control systems, build systems, test automation, automation in general, refactoring code, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Cloud environments.

These days the term DevOps is used frequently.

For a very long time the main language for many of these tasks were Perl and thus Gabor was deeply involved in both the international and the Israeli Perl community. Today the main language used in these fields is Python and thus Gabor is involved in the Python community.

You can find more information about him on his personal site or via his LinkedIN profile.

Contact

Contact: Gabor Szabo gabor@hostlocal.com
Phone: +972-54-4624648