About this publication

The DC Engineer exists because data centre careers are gatekept by jargon, not by difficulty — and because most of what's written about the industry is produced by people who have never stood in front of a switchboard at 3am.

It's written by Laszlo Farkas. The short version of a long career:

• Started in 1995 as a generator mechanic on military-contractor sites in Hungary and Kuwait — power plants, airfield lighting, equipment that wasn't allowed to fail.
• Five years as a QA/QC senior technical inspector in Kuwait — where he learned that paperwork done properly is what keeps people alive.
• Critical power across London and the South East — generators for banks, hospitals, and data centres, load banking, emergency call-outs.
• Critical facilities engineer, then shift lead in colocation — where he drove a site through ISO 27001, 14001 and 9001 certification in a six-month programme.
• Since 2021, hyperscale data centre operations — including supporting a new build from construction through to live service.

He is the author of The Data Center Engineer's Complete Reference, a 33-chapter technical and career reference for the industry. He learned English at 21 in six months, taught himself every system he's ever been paid to run, and thinks you can too.

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