UNIX and Network consultant
Eindhoven Area, Netherlands
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- UNIX and network consultant at Snow BV
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- Senior Linux engineer at ASML
- UNIX specialist at Philips
- UNIX Specialist at ASML Netherlands BV
- UNIX specialist at ASML
- UNIX/Network consultant at Versatel/TELE2
- Technical architect at ilse media groep
- System developer at Turpin Vision
- Education
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- Fontys Hogescholen
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Mathijs Brands’s Summary
Consultant specializing in UNIX and Network consulting, ranging from web servers to clustered environments and corporate (Cisco) routers to load balancers (such as F5 and Alteon). Also has experience in developing web-based, database-driven applications using a variety of languages and development tools.
Is Cisco, Red Hat, Sun and SNIA certified.
More details on request.
Mathijs Brands’s Specialties:
UNIX (Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD), Open Source databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL), high performance web and application servers and highly available solutions.
Mathijs Brands’s Experience
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UNIX and network consultant
Snow BV
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)
Snow is a privately held company specializing in UNIX and Network consulting.
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Senior Linux engineer
ASML
(Public Company; ASML; Semiconductors industry)
January 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 5 months)
Working on improving the Linux and VMware infrastructure.
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UNIX specialist
Philips
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PHG; Semiconductors industry)
September 2007 — December 2007 (4 months)
I am participating in the disentanglement of NXP from Philips.
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UNIX Specialist
ASML Netherlands BV
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year )
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UNIX specialist
ASML
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Semiconductors industry)
February 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 8 months)
Together with an ASML colleague I was responsible for maintaining 500+ Solaris systems. Additionally, I was responsible for the implementation of Linux servers within ASML. I also participated in the design and implementation of a new SAP installation, which included a few clustered machines to maximize availability.
Additionally, large parts of the computing infrastructure were migrated to VMware, for which the sysadmin team was also responsible. -
UNIX/Network consultant
Versatel/TELE2
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
March 2005 — February 2006 (1 year )
I was tasked with developing solutions for specific customer situations/request. Additionally, I wrote or modified software used, for instance, in customer billing or in the collection of billable data.
The most interesting project was the network design for a rich media platform for a Dutch TV organisation. The solution was meant to scale from a single 2 Gbps uplink up to a redundant 20 Gbps uplink without major architectural changes. The proposal was based on Cisco switches/routers and F5 load balancers; a partial implementation was started about two months before I left Versatel. -
Technical architect
ilse media groep
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
January 1998 — February 2005 (7 years 2 months)
I started as an application developer, mostly working on web-based applications. After a while this came to included the management of and 24x7 support for a heterogeneous serverfarm of up to 90 UNIX machines and some supporting equipment (such as load balancers, routers, etc). This was done with two collegues.
Later on my responsibilities included proposing, designing and developing new applications based on business requirements.
Most development was done using Perl or Java with a PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle database. For good measure, a lot of shell scripting and some PHP work was thrown in. -
System developer
Turpin Vision
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2001 — October 2001 (3 months)
Development of a toolset for creating and editing documentation required when building roads, placing of traffic signs, etc. This included a maintenance release which solved some minor issue and added some requested functionality.
Mathijs Brands’s Education
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Fontys Hogescholen
Information Technology 1996 — 2001
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Mathijs Brands’s Interests:
It various. Currently I am especially interested in machine vision and image processing, FPGA design, network traffic management (load balancing, firewalls, etc.) and algorithms
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Red Hat Certified
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