
Mathias Brandstetter
-mat- filid brandy
Senior system admin, application developer, system architect and analyst
Database Administrator, and Project Manager in a wide variety of internet based applications. Particularly interested in system architecture design using PHP, Perl, Shell, awk, expect, sed, JavaScript, Java, C, C++. In-depth knowledge about XHTML/CSS, OOP and modularized system setups. Works in Internet since 1988.
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Networking
- IP v4
- IP v6
- IPX
- SNMP
- ICMP
- TCP
- UDP
- DHCP
- Bonjour/Avahi/ZeroConf
- NFS
- CIFS/Samba
- LDAP
- VPN
- SSL/TLS
- SOAP
- WSDL
- HTML1.x/XHTML/HTML5.0
- CSS
- rsyslog
Programming
- PHP
- PEAR
- Perl
- C
- C++
- Java
- JavaScript
- Pascal
- Basic
- Lisp
- Arduino style
- SQL
- Shell (csh,tcsh, zsh,bash,ksh)
- awk
- expect
- sed
- CVS/subversion/git
- Objective-C
- Swift
- OOP/OOM/OOA
- MVC
- puppet
Applications
- Adobe AEM System Administration
- Infovista
- ARS remedy
- NetCool
- BMC patrol
- VMware/ESX
- Microsoft Word/Excel/Access
- PhotoShop
- SoftImage
- SAP/R3 ABAP/4
Operating Systems
- Linux
- BSD
- SunOS/Solaris
- MacOS 10.4-10.11
- Irix
- HP-UX
- Sinix
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 10
OpenSource Applications
- Sendmail/Postfix
- spam assassin/clamav/greylisting
- imap/pop3
- busybox
- tinylogin
- mySQL/mariaDB
- postgreSQL
- OpenLDAP
- rrdtool
- cricket
- OpenNMS
- LibreNMS
- Observium
- Apache
- nginx
- varnish
- lib_dispatch
- haproxy
- WordPress
- Drupal
- OpenVPN
- OpenSSH
- Asterisk
- TeX/LaTeX
- OpenOffice/LibreOffice
- gnuplot
- povray
- Linux (Debian,RedHat,SuSe,CentOS,Mandriva,Ubuntu)
- graylog2
- elastic search
- saltstack
- Ansible2
- Vagrant
- OpenSCAD
How to get in contact with me
Professional Experience
Senior System Administrator, 2008.06 - ,Trend Micro Deutschland GmbH, Munich
Project involved:
- Running the Imperia CMS on a HP EVA and HP Cluster
- Running HA setup of 650+ domains
- Moving the Imperia from Version 8.0.6 to 9.0 and moving from CentOS5 to CentOS6
- Moving the complete installation to a new datacenter
- Improving throughput for the web servers by switching from Apache to Nginx, Varnish, Apache setuo
- Rebuilding the cluster in VMware ESX environment and migration of service to it. Decommissioning of the old HP Cluster hardware
- Design, implementation and operations of the new setup for the WordPress based blogs, based on CentOS6 and Debian7
- Design, implementation and operations of a new web server setup for the 650 domains moving from CentOS6 to Debian 7
- Upgrade project for Imperia from 9.0 to 9.2
- Design, implementation and operations of a setup for Adobe AEM CMS
Senior Consultant, 2007.12 - 2008.04, CSNet GmbH, Munich
Senior Systems Engineer, 2004-2007.11, Cable&Wireless Telecommunication Services GmbH, Munich
Projects involved:
- Badger: I wrote the handover documentation for the 4SURE portal and the SLABox solution.
- Accordion: Setting up a complete site redundant system for the 4SURE portal in the datacenter in Swindown, UK to backup Munich datacenter.
- Dorothy: Negotiations about a new approach to unify the system landscape.
Senior Systems Engineer, 2003-2004, Cable&Wireless Deutschland GmbH, Munich
Projects involved:
- Tiger: Database cleansing and consolidation of the european system platform.
- Genoa: When Cable&Wireless exited the US market, I was responsible for the development, integration and replacement of the ISICS SLA solution. I developed a mini-ITX based hardware, fitted a Linux system on it and was able to build a very reliable hardware probe. The probes were installed in all major nodes of the Cable&Wireless public internet and measured the quality of the network. The other part of the development focused on the administration and reporting of the measured values, which I included in the webportal of Cable&Wireless. (http://www.cw.com/sla) Also moved from the US system were order management and port allocation web interfaces.
Cable&Wireless Worldwide Winner Award 2003
Manager of Operation/Business System Support Europe, 2000-2003, Cable&Wireles Deutschland GmbH, Munich
Projects involved:
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UK Hosting: I integrated the reporting for the UK hosting department. They are enabled to use the webportal to access all the related data and reports.
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•PESP (Pan European Support Platform): We build a new system landscape to unify the cross european systems into a single platform . I was responsible for the system and business analysis and build the system architecture. We were able to build the first single-sign-on webportal combining all databases and reportings into one frontend. We gathered information from InfoVista, Remedy, Netcool, cricket etc. This Customer Support Environment (CSE) later became the 4SURE portal.
Network Engineer at Network Managment and Integration Tools, 2000-1999, Cable&Wireless ECRC GmbH, Munich
Projects involved:
- Night moves: Complete move of a datacenter from the old to a new location.
- Hurricane: Process definition project, where I helped to implement the processes into the Remedy system.
Embedded Developer, 1999, Atmiralis, Munich
Chief Engineer, 1996-1999, TouchNet GmbH, Munich
Chief Technical Officer, 1994-1996, Phönix Verlag, Weilburg
Student worker, 1990, Siemens/Nixdorf, Munich
Student worker, 1989, Siemens, Munich
Student support, 1988-1993, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken
System administration, 1986-1988, Bundeswehr Büchel
Other Experience
CoderDojo
CryptoParty
Talks for Munich Linux Meeting
Education
Adobe AEM System Administrator, Adobe, Munich, 2016
ISEB - Business Analysis Essentials, London, 2007
Working with british partners, Cable&Wireless, Spitzingsee, 2005
Infovista VistaBridge, VistaPortal, VistaMart, VistaServer, Cable&Wireless, Coventry/UK, 2005
HP OpenView NetworkNodeManager 6.0 Administration Part 2, Hewlett-Packard, Munich 2000
User Forum Conference, Hewlett-Packard, Orlando/FL, 2000
HP OpenView NetworkNodeManager 6.0 Administration Part I, Hewlett-Packard, Munich 1999
ATM, Cable&Wireless, Munich, 1999
Cisco Support Pro, Cisco, Munich, 1997
Java, Sun Microsystems, Munich, 1996
Application Developer Network, Communication, Unix and Administrator SAP R/3, 1993-1994
Computer science, not graduate, Vordiplom Medizintechnik (2.0), 1989-1994
Study of Mathematics, 1988-1989
Abitur 1986
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