Peter Hansteen

Current

Free Software Consultant at FreeCode AS
Senior Consultant at Bsdly.net
That guy with the PF tutorial that morphed into a book at OpenBSD

kernel group member at BLUG

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Past

Senior Consultant at Datadokumentasjon AS
Consultant at NorDoc as (defunct)
Clerical officer at Norges Handelshøyskole

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Education

NKS University college

Connections

110 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Peter Hansteen’s Summary

IT guy with strong networking and documentation skills, to the point where I've just released a book about my favorite tool, "The Book of PF - A No-Nonsense Guide to the OpenBSD Firewall" on No Starch Press. Strong preference for free/open source tools, main interest network, security, services.

Keywords: High-performance, low-maintenance networking, the quality experience, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux, SuSe Linux, network services, planning, implementation, configuration, maintenance, firewalls, network security, authentication, LDAP, DNS, name service, BIND, Samba, integration, heterogeneous environments, higly reliable systems

Resume at http://www.bsdly.net/~peter/PNMH-cv.html

Peter Hansteen’s Specialties:

TCP/IP networking, reliable networks, firewalls, DNS, Samba, effective malware countermeasures, effective spam countermeasures, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, documentation

Peter Hansteen’s Experience

Free Software Consultant

FreeCode AS

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — Present (2 months)
Senior Consultant

Bsdly.net

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — Present (less than a year)

I build and maintain network infrastructure and services, write and maintain documentation on networking and free systems. Frequent lecturer on networking and free operating systems.
That guy with the PF tutorial that morphed into a book

OpenBSD

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — Present (3 years)
kernel group member

BLUG

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — Present (8 years)
Senior Consultant

Datadokumentasjon AS

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Translation and Localization industry)

March 1991 — May 2008 (17 years 3 months)

Originally the all-round tech guy and localiser, ended up building and maintaining the network infrastructure and services for Datadokumentasjon A/S and cooperating company Dataped as. Write and maintain documentation on networking and free systems, frequent lecturer on networking and free operating systems.
Consultant

NorDoc as (defunct)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Translation and Localization industry)

January 1989 — February 1991 (2 years 2 months)

Localizer; my debut there was the Norwegian version of Turbo Pascal (then v 5.5, the first object oriented version)
Clerical officer

Norges Handelshøyskole

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 1985 — December 1988 (3 years 5 months)

Originally a receptionist and typist for the Department of Economics, developed into an IT support role before landing the localizer job