about

my name is Benedikt Böhm, i am working as an open source software developer/maintainer and freelancer. i am also studying computer science at the Free University in Berlin.

please take a look at my résumé and references. don't hesitate to contact me for detailed information.

contact

Benedikt Böhm
Berlin, Germany

SMTP/XMPP

bb@xnull.de

IRC

Hollow at irc.oftc.net or irc.freenode.net

GPG

key id: 0xB5FAF161

detailed information is available. don't forget to take a look at my xing profile and gulp.de profile.

networking

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resume

my professional main focus is on system administration and automation, system- and webapplication development as well as consulting. i enjoy developing usable and standards-compliant systems, with an emphasis on automated deployment, complete monitoring and backup solutions as well as highly available and redundant cluster systems.

summary

• Over six years of System Administration experience
• Over four years of standards-based web application development
• Over ten years of overall programming experience in a growing number of languages
• Extremely self-motivated
• Great independent learning skills

skills

Languages

German (first language), English (fluent)

Operating Systems

Linux (Debian, Gentoo), MacOS, Unix

Programming Languages (in order of preference)

Python, C, Bash, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, PHP

Web-/Applicationservers

Apache, nginx, varnish

Databases

MySQL, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, MongoDB

High-Availability

CDN, Clustering, DRBD, Heartbeat, fail-over, load-balancing, Varnish, Virtualization

System Automation and Monitoring

Puppet, Nagios, Munin, Monit, Duplicity

Frameworks

Ruby/Rails, Django, YAML

education

Oct 2006 - present

Department of Computer Science, Free University of Berlin

Sep 1996 - May 2006

secondary school, Munich

Sep 1992 - Jul 1996

elementary school, Munich

professional experience

please take a look at my references.