Alexander Mette

Nationality: German/Finnish
Homebase: Berlin, Germany
e-mail: work@amette.eu

Profession

Freelance DevOps Engineer & Web Developer

IT Infrastructure
- Design, architecture, implementation and maintenance of
  - server farms
  - office environments
- System Analysis
- Requirements Engineering
- Data Security
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
- creation of wiki-based Intranets for SMEs
- coding of custom features

Lead System Administrator

System administration and analysis
Project management and analysis
System design and sizing of server setups
Management of high availability setups consisting of Heartbeat, Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC), JBOSS-/Tomcat-Cluster, Foundry Networks loadbalancers and Juniper Networks Firewalls
Administration, consolidation and documentation of the internal heterogeneous server and network infrastructure
Management of a geographically distributed team of sysadmins

Open Source Community Member

2013-2019: Design and maintenance of bkp.tiki.org and show.tiki.org
2008-2010: Design, implemenation and operation of the virtualised server-farm for doc.tw.o and dev.tw.o
2005: Release Manager for TikiWiki 1.9.2 series
Community organization
Security Team member
Coding in PHP, Smarty, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript

Trainee

Student Trainee

Corporate Logistics Frontend
Designing simulation models for the semiconductor fabs in Regensburg, A and Perlach, D
- AutoSched AP
Writing software for automated import of data into the simulation models from strategic and operational logistics databases
- Oracle PL/SQL
Extending the ASAP-software with corporate-specific extensions
- C++

Degree in Commercial Information Technology (Wirtschaftsinformatik)

Specializing in Information and Knowledge Management
Thesis title: "Organizational change management facilitating the open sourcing of a commercial software project"
2004 : 2 terms on sabbatical


Sys-Admin: Linux, Ansible, AWX, Puppet, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, MariaDB, Elasticsearch, Oracle PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, Postfix, Dovecot, Samba, HAProxy, Pacemaker, OpenVPN, TCP/IP, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), ZFS
Monitoring: Nagios, Icinga, Grafana, Graphite, InfluxDB, CollectD, Sensu, OpenTSDB
Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, XML, PHP
Programming: PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, ECMA, bash, SQL, Python, C/C++, Java
Technical writing: vi, LaTeX, OOo Writer
Development Methodologies: Open Source, Scrum, DevOps, Extreme Programming (XP), Agile Software Development, UML
Tools: VCSs (git, SVN), PHPStorm, PyCharm, IntelliJ, Eclipse, KDevelop, Jira, Confluence, Mantis, Bugzilla
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware: Hosting, Adaptation, Training, Customization
Soft Skills: Community organization and governance, Presenting, having the right touch for emerging technologies