Greater Los Angeles Area
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- Co-founder at Solfo
- Owner at Develooper LLC
- Infrastructure Magician at perl.org / The Perl Foundation
- Past
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- mod_perl developer and Project Management Committee Member at Apache Software Foundation
- Consulting Engineer at Citysearch / IAC
- Senior Software Engineer at ValueClick Inc
- Founder at Netcetera ApS
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Ask Bjørn Hansen’s Summary
Software developer, infrastructure engineer. Extensive experience in high traffic internet environments and with most common protocols.
Particularly experienced with Perl, MySQL, Apache HTTPD and related technologies.
Ask Bjørn Hansen’s Specialties:
server architecture, horizontal scaling, high traffic, perl, apache, mysql, open source, Unix, BSD, Linux, puppet, systems management, Mac, OS X, email systems, anti-spam, mail filtering, dns, web services, weblogs, web services, jabber, ...
Ask Bjørn Hansen’s Experience
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Co-founder
Solfo
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Developing Yellowbot.com and www.weblocal.ca. Building better, more honest and open local search sites.
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Owner
Develooper LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2000 — Present (9 years 4 months)
Building and architecting small and large internet systems for open source communities, large corporations and small companies. Too Busy!
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Infrastructure Magician
perl.org / The Perl Foundation
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
August 1999 — Present (10 years 4 months)
Manages and builds things to keep the perl.org infrastructure running.
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mod_perl developer and Project Management Committee Member
Apache Software Foundation
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
July 1998 — July 2007 (9 years 1 month)
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Consulting Engineer
Citysearch / IAC
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IACI; Internet industry)
April 2002 — February 2005 (2 years 11 months)
"Principal Architect". Helped build new products and making the system stay sane as the site expanded and changed.
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Senior Software Engineer
ValueClick Inc
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; VCLK; Internet industry)
February 1999 — March 2002 (3 years 2 months)
Architected and built internet advertising system serving thousands of dynamic requests per second. Logging, counting and generated statistics in real time. Extremely scalable and built almost entirely with open source technologies.
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Founder
Netcetera ApS
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 1997 — July 2001 (4 years 5 months)
Built business on fancy content management system, various hosting products (including UUCP mail!) and Mac and Unix support services and much more. (Yup, way too many things for a small company!)
Drastically cut down on my involvement during 1999 when I moved to California.
