Delivering IT solutions with a focus on Free Software/Open Source. Webdevelopment in Python (Django and Flask) and Haskell.

Freelance IT consultant

Development of websites, webapps and e-commerce sites in Python/Django.

Web Developer

Implementation of a complete new IT landscape entailing the basic software for Office automation and software to support the healthcare business activities (EHR).

IT consultant

Development of customizations for the Oracle E-Business Suite (ERP) for various customers (KPN, AEGON) in cooperation with an offshore team. Customizations include interfaces (PL/SQL), reports and supporting tools in Python (for example programs to perform file transfers over FTP and SSH).

Technical Consultant

Developed several web applications in Django, PHP and ActionScript for customers of Memento.

Administration of various web- and mail servers (Linux, FreeBSD). I’ve also developed tools in Python to ease daily administration and enable customer self-service.

System Administrator, Developer

Development of a custom ERP suite using Oracle technology for a young plant production company. Also, I’ve developed a website with online booking system for a travel agency.

Oracle Developer

For the “Information and Language Processing Systems” group of the UvA I’ve written a set of Python scripts to extract data from various types of documents (PDF, PS, HTML) and to have them indexed by a search engine.

Developer

For one of the customers of Loxo, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, I’ve created a set of C++ programs to parse the huge amount of log files from the luggage handling systems. This resulted in better insight in the frequency and duration of outages of various components in the luggage handling system.

Developer, System Administrator

Administration of IT infrastructure and development of the website.

Web Developer, System Administrator

Created several dozen backends for websites mostly in Django, but also in Flask. Websites and webapplications include CMS, e-commerce, education, ERP. Experience with unit testing with pytest.

Several small personal projects ranging from a TripleStore (RDF database) and small web applications to command line utilities.

I've used PureScript (pure functional programming language in the ML family that compiles to JavaScript) to code some of my personal projects.

As a system administrator I've been managing dozens of GNU/Linux and FreeBSD systems during the past 15 years. I'm using Fedora Linux as my daily operating systems on my desktop.

Build several dozen web applications on top of PostgreSQL RDBMS.

Personal details

Matthias P.

Summary

Technical skills

Work Experience