Curriculum Vitae

Kris Buytaert

Summary

Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant. He's one of instigators of the devops movement, currently working for Inuits

Kris is the Co-Author of Virtualization with Xen ,used to be the maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO and author of different technical publications. He is frequently speaking at, or organizing different international conferences

He spends most of his time working on Linux Clustering (both High Availability, Scalability and HPC), Virtualisation and Large Infrastructure Management projects hence trying to build infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, better known today as the cloud while actively promoting the devops idea !

His blog titled "Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem" can be found at http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/

Personalia

Naam / Name	Kris Buytaert
Geboortedatum / Birth Date	31 December 1975
Geboorteplaats / Place of Birth	Wilrijk
Nationaliteit / Nationality	Belg
GSM / Mobile	+32-475-961221
E-mail	buytaertatinuitsdotcountrybelgium

Werkervaring / Work Experience

Periode / Period	Plaats / Place	Functie / Function	Type
September 2007 - now	Inuits	Senior Consultant
July 2003 - July 2011	Newtec	Linux Expert	Consultant
February 2008 - now	Virtualization.com	Guest Editor
Dec 2003 - August 2007	X-Tend	Founder and CTO
Feb 2001 - Nov 2003	Stone-IT Belgium	Senior Consultant	Full Time Employee
13 Oct 1997 - Jan 2001	>Real Software (No Limits)	Unix, Networking and Open Source Consultant	Full Time Employee
Aug 1998 - Dec 2003	IP Net Generation	Unix Project Manager	Part Time
July 1997	Riverland	Firefly Development	Summer Job
July 1996	The Reference	Programmeur / Programmer	Summer Job
Maart 1996 - June 1996	The Reference	Web Development	Part Time
Jan 1996 - Maart 1996	Larix	Web Development	Part Time

Opleiding / Education

Lagere School / Primary School
1981-1984	Hofke Van Thijs Hoboken
1984-1987	Sint-Jan Berchmans College Malle
Humaniora / Secondary School
1987-1990	Moderne Humaniora, Sint-Jan Berchmans College Malle
1990-1994	Wetenschappelijke A, Sint-Jan Berchmans College Malle Maths / Science
Universiteit / University
1994-1996	1e Kandidatuur Informatica - KULeuven 1st year Computer Science
1996-1997	Afzonderlijke vakken Wijsbegeerte - KULeuven 1e jaar Toegepaste Informatica - KHL

Additional Training / Certification

24 - 26 November 1998	Broadvision Hands On : Core Application Development	BroadVision BV Utrecht (NL)
12 - 15 October 1999	Oracle Web Application Server : Administration	Oracle Education Belgium
24 - 28 January 2000	Orbix Web : Corba for Java Programmers	IONA Professional Services , Dublin(IE)
15 - 17 August 2000	Netscape Directory Services : Analysis and Planning 4.X	Sun Educational Services , London (UK)
25 - 26 August 2000	XML Quickstart	IT Works, Kontich, Belgium
July 2001	RedHat Certification Fast Track	Syntegra/ Stone-IT , Zoetermeer(NL)
13 July 2001	Redhat RHCE	Syntegra/ Stone-IT , Zoetermeer(NL)
7-11 February 2005	Using and Managing MySQL	MySQL, London(UK)
20-21 december 2005	JBoss for Administrators	BSG Education Services, London(UK)
September 2006	XenEnterprise, Xen Certified Professional	XenSource, Frankfurt(DE)

Experiences / Projects

Some Consultancy Projects

This is far from an exhaustive list, it however shows a variety of typical projects we work on

Large Scale Installations	Kris helped designing, implemented and deployed the servers responsible for the management and monitoring for a Telco Environment. This involved designing a system to install and maintain a large amount of servers . Kris is also responsible for the security and the redundancy of these higly critical environments. The environment consists of multiple JBoss ,MySQL and Xen Clusters.
Open Source Projects	As an opensource developer I am active within different Open Source projects, e.g openCRM, openMosix, openQRM etc.
Security	Kris did the design and implementation of various security infrastructures. These consist of Firewalls , IDS , VPN solutions etc.
Infrastructure Architecture	As a consultant, Kris designed , implemented and supports the infrastructure for several clients. Next to the security tracks, Kris designs and implements migrations from NT environment to Linux, migrations of several business critical machines to an external datacenter, Notes on AS400 migrations to Linux, and a complete network management solutions. Kris was involved in the overall design of different new architectures, the implementation of the security tracks, and the general project managment.
Application Migration	In his role a an IT Intrasctructure Architect Kris was involve the migration different applications from a HP/UX to a Linux environment. Kris advised the customer on the changes that had to be made to both the Application and System level in order to have a stable environment. Together with the client he drafts a planning and a project roadmap for these kind of projects.
Multimedia	Design and Project managment for the development of the Final Scratch installation CD. Final Scratch is a Linux based product for the DJ industry. N2IT has demanded Stone-IT to develop an easy to use installation and upgrade procedure for their software. This included creating a Debian based Linux distribution that was tuned specifically for the application. Together with a 'no hands/brains needed' installation CD.

Older Projects

Ervaring / Experience (Technologies)

Besturingssystemen / Operating Systems :
System Administrator Knowledge
Linux, since 0.98 CentOS,RedHat, Suse, Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Fedora,
One of my hobbies is collecting Collecting hardware, eg HP 9000/715, Sun Sparcstation IPX, Sparcstation SLC Decstation 3000, SGI Iris 3030, IBM RS6000 250, Dec Multia, PPC7200, etc and using Linux on those platforms.
Technical Knowledge ,
Linux / Unix Systems: Mass System Installs (SystemImager,Oscar) HPC Configurations using openMosix etc. Clustermanagement , openMosixView, Ganglia, etc Filesystems: general Linux (xfs,jfs,reiser,ext(2,3)fs, ) Clustering (oMFS, etc) internet services : Apache, bind, ftp, sshd, openldap, squid etc network services: samba, X , tcp/ip , routing mail services: sendmail, qmail, postfix,exim shell Programming Linux security Linux High Availability, Clustering MySQL, Apache, Squid, & Custom Applications Virtualisation : Xen, KVM

Talen / Languages

Nederlands / Dutch	heel goed, schriftelijk en mondeling / mothertongue
Engels / English	heel goed, schriftelijk en mondeling, / excellent both written and spoken
Frans / French	goed, schriftelijk en mondeling / good both written and spoken

Publications & Presentations

Next to his contributions to the Linux Documentation project Kris has published a lot of articles both in printed and online magazines. A complete list of his publications is available on http://www.krisbuytaert.be He can often be found speaking at different international Unix and OpenSource Conferences.

Articles & Papers & Books

Over the past decade I've been writing articles for diffrent offline and online publications such as : Open Magazine, O'Reilly GMT, O'Reilly Network, and Virtualization.com

Open Magazine,Issue 2.3 March 2001, Cyber-glue for authentication, Local Copy
Open Magazine,Issue 2.4 April 2001, WAP Is Dead Long Live XML!
Open Magazine, Issue 2.5 May 2001, Beyond Saying "Look Out," How to you treat a Virus ?
E-Open, Issue 13, January 2002, Email Architecture, A Roundup of MTAs and IMAP alternatives (Local Copy)
Open, Vol 39, September 2002, Fighting Spam (Local Copy)
Open, Vol 47, December 2002 , Wiki Wiki (Local Copy )
April 2003 Increasing openMosix performance with FireWire
Augustus 2003, MySQL Benchmarks
October 2003 , Linuxkongress Saarbrucken, Germany , migShm Experiences
O'Reilly Network, February 2004 , Introducing openMosix
June 2004, LinuxTag Karlsruhe, Germany, openMosix: Past Present and Future
October 2004, Sane, Amsterdam , The Netherlands: openMosix: Past Present and Future
April 2005, Linux.conf.au ,Canberra, Australia , openMosix, Past Present and Future, a peek at 2.6
Aug 2005, UKUUG Linux Technical Conference ,Swansea , UK, openMosix, Past Present and Future, a peek at 2.6 (updated)
October 2005, Linux-Kongress,Hamburg, Germany : Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
January 2006, LinuxDays,LuxemBourg : Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
O'Reilly Network, January 2006 , Linux Virtualisation with Xen
O'Reilly Network, February 2006 , Building a High-Available MySQL Cluster
March 2006, UKUUG LISA Conference 2006 Durham, UK : Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment (UPDATED)
O'Reilly Network, February 2007 , An Introduction to openQRM
NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie on Virtualisation, May 2007, Using openQRM as a Virtual Machine Manager
Syngress Media, June 2007 , CoAuthor of Virtualization with Xen
Syngress Media, Fall 2007 , CoAuthor of The Best Damn Server Virtualization Book Period: Including Vmware, Xen, and Microsoft Virtual Server
O'Reilly Network, February 2008 , Using Xen for High Availability Clusters
Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008, Open Source Monitoring Tool Shootout

I've also acted as a technical reviewer for different books including "High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, OpenMosix, and MPI" the "MySQL Cluster Study Guide" and "Zabbix 1.8 Network Monitoring"

Key Words: Open Source , Linux, Technical Web-Development , Security, Architecture Design