Niels de Vos

Current

Technical Support Engineer at Red Hat

Past

Team Captain and Manager at Squash Team Racketsport Berlin
Linux Software Engineer at Wincor Nixdorf International
Server Administrator at interNETwork Berlin

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Education

Avans Hogeschool
Hochschule Anhalt
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Niels de Vos’s Summary

Linux software engineer with main topics towards driver development and low-level libraries for hardware access used by middleware (i.e. JavaPOS) and applications.

Main interest in working with Open Source Software (OSS) and providing support, bugfixes and improvements to the open source community.

Submitted patches to following open source projects:
- linux kernel (driver extensions and bugfixes)
- anaconda (feature improvements)
- xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion (debugging fixes)
- ...

Niels de Vos’s Specialties:

Programming languages:
- Python
- Bash
- C (also a little C++)
- Java
- SQL
- PHP (inc. HTML, JavaScript)

Development and engineering:
- Linux Driver Development
- RPM packaging
- Object Oriented Design

Development tools:
- subversion, git, CVS
- eclipse, vim
- gcc, make, gdb

System administration:
- web-, email-, proxyservers
- firewalls (Linux iptables, OpenBSD pf)
- all common Linux/BSD system administration tasks
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE #805008146131316)

Niels de Vos’s Experience

Technical Support Engineer

Red Hat

(Public Company; RHT; Computer Software industry)

June 2009 — Present (2 months)
Team Captain and Manager

Squash Team Racketsport Berlin

(Sports industry)

June 2007 — 2009 (2 years)

Coordinating a squash club with two teams.
Working together tightly with 1. Bremer Squash Club when organizing events including referee training.
Linux Software Engineer

Wincor Nixdorf International

(Public Company; win; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2005 — June 2009 (3 years 9 months)

Lead developer for the Wincor-Nixdorf Linux-distribution.

Engaged to make the closed source Wincor Nixdorf drivers/middleware independent of unacceptable linux-kernel patches and drivers

Debugging and support development of firmware for several POS-related devices (POSPrinter, scanner, POSKeyboard, ...). Giving workshops on best-practices for using Linux as POS-platform as well as development on Linux with standard tools and libraries.

Additional tasks:
- Third level support for questions and problems
- Driver Development (kernel- and user-space)
- Support developers creating applications for use on Linux
- Debugging applications, libraries, drivers and firmware (USB, serial, PCI)
- Organizing and giving workshops on several Linux subjects
Server Administrator

interNETwork Berlin

(Consumer Services industry)

February 2005 — September 2005 (8 months)

Designing a new network topology. Including internet stations and gaming station for usage by our customers. Several servers for traffic shaping, virus scanning and filtering proxy/dns. My job was to manage the Linux servers and the OpenBSD firewall; during problems on the network diagnosing and finding the affected system(s).

Niels de Vos’s Education

Avans Hogeschool

Computer Science 1999 — 2005

Graduation project involving complex network topologies, high availability and security.

Activities and Societies:

administrating various linux and *BSD servers, project Linux High Availability Cluster, High Performance Computing using openMosix, project manager and initiator of several school projects
Hochschule Anhalt

Computer Science 2002 — 2003

Study one year abroad.

Activities and Societies:

teacher of German 4th semester students during their period of practical training 'Oracle Development'
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

Computer Science 2002 — 2002

Internship for 8 months.

Activities and Societies:

Development of a web application to support information and problem management (ITIL).

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Niels de Vos’s Websites:

Niels de Vos’s Interests:

Linux, Open Source, clustering, Interprocess Communication, Design Patterns, network security, squash, kayak, traveling, enjoying different countries and cities