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Title : About
Author : Remy van Elst
Date : 01-01-2006
URL : https://raymii.org/s/static/About.html
Format : Markdown/HTML
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Hi there! I'm Remy, a developer with a focus on C++, C#, C, Linux and embedded systems.
I currently work for [De Jong DUKE][11] were I develop software for an
embedded platform that powers coffee machines. This is a C++ and Qt stack
running on Yocto Linux. It controls hardware, runs the UI and has a few
utilities for IoT connectivity and configuration. Technology includes
Microsoft Visual C++ (MFC), .NET (Framework, C++/CLI and Core), Flash, Qt
and ARM kernel drivers.
I've been a Linux/UNIX sysadmin for over 10 years; I've built high-available
cloud environments in OpenStack, Azure or on premise, with Ansible, Chef,
Puppet and Terraform (but can work with any other configuration management
tool). My sysadmin keywords are OpenStack, cloud, virtualization,
high-availability, scaling and clustering, security, (Open)SSL, Python,
Powershell, bash and general linux/UNIX system administration.
I've worked in a devops role for [the Erasmus University Medical Center][3] (a
large hospital and medical university in Rotterdam), [Digidentity][4] (a Dutch
[certificate authority][5], the company that develops [DigiD][6] and other Ruby
on Rails applications), [CloudVPS][7] (an OpenStack cloud provider),
[VolkerWessels][2] (as an Azure cloud specialist) and a few other smaller
companies.
I design, build, document and manage large, complex and high-available systems.
I'm a team player that loves to work with configuration management tools and
version control systems. If I do something more than three times, I automate it.
**Planning, documentation, monitoring and backups are things I do first, not
when the time allows it later.** Last but not least I have an interest in legacy
systems like the PDP-11, PDP-8, OpenVMS, HP-UX and old UNIX systems.
This is my personal website, please do note that these articles do not reflect
or are based on work, opinions or policies of any of my (previous) employers.
Any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence.
This site started in 2006 as my form of (public) documentation. It has grown to
include software, guides, snippets and articles on linux/UNIX, programming, system
administration and everything related with over 10.000 unique visitors a day as
of [2018-06][9]. The URL is the phonetic way you say my name (Ray-Mii), since
non-Dutch speakers always have trouble with the correct pronunciation.
If you want to send me feedback, emails or comments, see below for the contact
details.
### Resume
If you want my full resume including all (previous) jobs, experience and
education, please send me an email.
### Contact
You can reach me by email, try mailing "contact" "at" "relst" "dot" "nl". I'm
not on any social networks, not on Facebook, not on LinkedIn, not on twitter,
Identica, IRC, diaspora, mastodon, nowhere. Every profile on a social network
claiming to be me is false.
In the past this page also had a GPG and S/MIME key for secure email. I removed
that because the usage was so low compared to the maintenance efforts.
### Disclaimer
All the text on this website is free as in freedom unless stated otherwise. This
means you can use it in any way you want, you can copy it, change it the way you
like and republish it, _as long as you release the (modified) content under the
same license_ to give others the same freedoms you've got and place my name and
a link to this site with the article as source.
All the code on this website is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 license unless
already licensed under a license which does not allows this form of licensing or
if another license is stated on that page / in that software:
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Just to be clear, the information on this website is for meant for educational
purposes and you should use it at your own risk. Use common sense, do not
`rm -rf / --no-preserve-root` as root for example. If you have any questions
then do not hesitate to contact me.
[1]: /s/static/Cookie_Privacy_Policy.html
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VolkerWessels
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_MC
[4]: http://web.archive.org/web/20130423160830/https://www.digidentity.eu/static/en/over-digidentity/index.html
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKIoverheid
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiD
[7]: http://web.archive.org/web/20180621194238/https://www.cloudvps.com/about-cloudvps
[9]: https://raymii.org/s/inc/img/hits-2018.png
[11]: http://web.archive.org/web/20190110180032/http://dejongduke.nl/
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License:
All the text on this website is free as in freedom unless stated otherwise.
This means you can use it in any way you want, you can copy it, change it
the way you like and republish it, as long as you release the (modified)
content under the same license to give others the same freedoms you've got
and place my name and a link to this site with the article as source.
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advertisements. You are tracked and Google knows everything about you.
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All the code on this website is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 license
unless already licensed under a license which does not allows this form
of licensing or if another license is stated on that page / in that software:
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Just to be clear, the information on this website is for meant for educational
purposes and you use it at your own risk. I do not take responsibility if you
screw something up. Use common sense, do not 'rm -rf /' as root for example.
If you have any questions then do not hesitate to contact me.
See https://raymii.org/s/static/About.html for details.