Adrian S.

Man-At-Infrastructure Visualtis (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry) June 2004 — Present (5 years 8 months) Went a long way from our first tomcat and java 4 webapps to our online experiments still powered by the latest tomcat stack. In the first year of life of Visualtis I was asked wether to pursue the path of a SysAdmin or Java developer; we had enough Java power and I was more prepared and apt for the Systems Front. My aproach to Systems work has always been inspired by the ways laid at [login to view URL]; the ones CFengine was harbinger. First prototypes of central system management were based on cfengine plus GNU Arch repositories. In 2008 I made the switch to puppet and git, with heavy use of linux-vserver for context separation. I frequently act as evangelist and facilitator for the use of agile tools by our development team. Since my move from arch, to mercurial, and later to git I gained some insight about the pitfalls of distributed VCS, I try hard to make that knowledge useful to my fellows. Visualtis is ISO:9001 certified as a provider of IT services. I play the roles of Bakup and Systems manager; but I'm not too fond of it. I feel we suffer some internal conflict between make-believe tools and those that add real value and quality. Technology Facilitator Ageda (Sole Proprietorship) (Sole Proprietorship; Information Technology and Services industry) August 2003 — Present (6 years 6 months) Ageda began doing facilitation for the adoption of free software on the edge of the Infrastructure at the Education Service in Murcia ([login to view URL]). The mixed monitoring/managing (nagios / cfengine) system is still in use as of 2009 in the routers of the public High-School at Murcia. Until 2008 Ageda went into an almost exclusive relation with Visualtis. Some online system and web development contracts were awarded and finished with the mediation of job markets (Rentacoder, guru, ...). At the moment I provide infrastructure services as contractor. Main interest is providing Infrastructures for Self-organized Teams.