I am a student studying to be a programmer with programming security in mind. I believe it is better to code once the right way than to have to code many times to fix the code. One of my best qualities is that I can learn anything quickly.
I have set up and run my own Ubuntu server at my house. I also have set up and run an SVN (Subversion) server on it along with a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) webserver. I have the SVN set to encrypt and backup offsite on a daily, weekly, and monthly schedule. Every month it is saved as monthNameYear. I also run a PfSence firewall that manages my local IP's ,runs a VPN for remote connecting when out of the house( 256bit AES, 4k Public-private key with password using OpenVPN) and scans for virus on all inbound traffic. I also currently use Ubuntu 64bit desktop for my main computer and have a fairly good sense of how to work with the command line.