My technical resume
I'm an autodidact in computer technology. Already interested in computers and programming during my adolescence, I returned to working with computers during my studies in environmental sciences (see non-technical background), and improved my skills creating Filemaker databases, writing Modula-2 programs, and evaluation of scientific data using Perl.
After my studies, I fully concentrated on building web applications, at first using Perl and MySQL, then adding XML/XSLT. Midway through my career I felt increasingly disappointed by the limited generality and abstractions that those tools provided, and embarked on a search for alternatives, which led me to the world of Lisp, and functional programming. I took on the challenge of trying to build a productive environment on top of the Lisp dialect Scheme
, one which I'm still working on.
I'm using Linux, primarily Debian, as server and desktop OS since 1999.
Knowledge
System administration. Databases (MySQL, Postgres, some Oracle). Programming (Perl, Bash, C, and Lisp/Scheme, plus some Clojure, Ocaml, Haskell, and Javascript). I have used (but not particularly liked) XML/DTD/XSLT.
Interest
Programming languages, functional programming, data conversion, compilers and interpreters, database engines, distributed computing.
Experience
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stays in Canada and England, creation of a company ; working on a database engine in Scheme used in a Scheme based application written by a client. |
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major overhaul of www.ethimdialog.ethz.ch (defunct since mid 2012), still in Perl, layered on top of a static Silva site. |
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start of a partial reimplementation of the ETH Life system in Scheme; the work was interrupted after ETH decided to reimplement the system on top of the now commonly deployed CMS there (Zope/Silva). |
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3 1/2 months of employment at a company in the Web/CMS business in Zurich; afterwards helping another Web company implement a Linux-VServer based server setup |
| 2003 | implementation of the server part (server setup and administration, content handling (Perl/AxKit), much of XSLT) of the interactive Flash based website www.theaterblut.ch (now defunct) (article about it in German). |
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in charge of support for the ETH Life system, and education/introduction of a student employed as firstlevel in-house supporter. |
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leading the creation of a second system for ETH Life together with two other self-employed co-workers, based on MySQL, the AxKit XML application framework, and a virtual filesystem based on code from AVFS (LD_PRELOAD variant). |
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working primarily self-employed |
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employment at the web office of ETH Zurich, mainly as leader of the technical team of 3 employees (including myself) to create the first version of ETH Life, the daily online magazine of ETH Zurich, based on TCL code running on Vignette Storyserver (adaption of the code of a preexisting magazine from a bank). |
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part time employment at the rectorate of ETH Zurich for the creation of the www.rektorat.ethz.ch and www.ethimdialog.ethz.ch (now defunct) websites. Creation of an HTML transformation system to transform minimally formatted, staff written Microsoft Frontpage pages to the former website, and wrote a web framework on top of FastCGI and MySQL to create the latter website. |
| 1999 | diploma thesis at EAWAG, analyzing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediment of ponds of a biologic highway run-off water purification plant, including implementation of a new statistical evaluation in Perl. |
| 1992, 1996/97 | learned Modula-2, wrote foreign function interfaces to the Mac OS APIs for the Modula-2 implementation of ETH Zurich, and several smaller programs with graphical user interfaces. |
| 1996 | about two months of work at a swiss modem manufacturer, mainly writing the documentation for Mac users |
| 1994 | programming on an HP-48 calculator, and implementation of software and simple infrared interfacing hardware for the C-128 to backup programs to the latter. |
| 1984+ | Learning to program HP and Casio calculators and a TI-99/4A computer, in 1985 a Commodore 128, and in 1986 an Amiga 1000. (HP RPL precursor, Basic and 8502/6502 assembly.) |
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