Lenz Grimmer

Codebits 2010 status

Accepted for the event.

Bio

I've been using and advocating Linux and Open Source Software since around 1995. I worked for SuSE Linux in Nuremberg as a distribution developer and package maintainer from 1998-2002.

Since then I work for MySQL (now Oracle, formerly Sun), where I first was in charge of building and releasing the MySQL releases for all platforms. Starting December 2006, I am now a member of the MySQL Community Relations team. I frequently speak at conferences (e.g. FOSDEM, FrOSCon, MySQL/PHP conferences) about a variety of topics, e.g. MySQL High-Availability, Security and Backup techniques, Linux and OpenSolaris and other Open Source technologies.

My primary operating systems are Linux and OpenSolaris. My areas of expertise are software building and packaging (e.g. RPM/Linux or IPS/OpenSolaris), storage solutions (e.g. Linux RAID/LVM setups, ZFS on OpenSolaris), high availability as well as distributed version control systems (e.g. Bazaar, git, mercurial).

I am the maintainer of a small Open Source Project written in Perl named "mylvmbackup" (http://launchpad.net/mylvmbackup) and have contributed patches to various OSS projects. I maintain a number of RPM packages on the openSUSE build service.

I am pretty fluent in Shell, Perl and PHP, but would not call myself an experienced programmer. However, I have good communication skills, a good grasp on technical issues and lots of sysadmin experience on Linux, OpenSolaris and other Unices. I have a good feeling for usability and ergonomy of applications and web sites as well and love beta testing new stuff.

See the "about me" section on my home page/blog for pointers to the various sites that I'm active on: http://www.lenzg.net/about.html

I've been using and advocating Linux and Open Source Software since around 1995. I worked for SuSE Linux in Nuremberg as a distribution developer and package maintainer from 1998-2002. Since then I work for MySQL (now Oracle, formerly Sun), where I first was in charge of building and releasing the MySQL releases for all platforms. Starting December 2006, I am now a member of the MySQL Community Relations team. I frequently speak at conferences (e.g. FOSDEM, FrOSCon, MySQL/PHP conferences) about a variety of topics, e.g. MySQL High-Availability, Security and Backup techniques, Linux and OpenSolaris and other Open Source technologies. My primary operating systems are Linux and OpenSolaris. My areas of expertise are software building and packaging (e.g. RPM/Linux or IPS/OpenSolaris), storage solutions (e.g. Linux RAID/LVM setups, ZFS on OpenSolaris), high availability as well as distributed version control systems (e.g. Bazaar, git, mercurial). I am the maintainer of a small Open Source Project written in Perl named "mylvmbackup" (http://launchpad.net/mylvmbackup) and have contributed patches to various OSS projects. I maintain a number of RPM packages on the openSUSE build service. I am pretty fluent in Shell, Perl and PHP, but would not call myself an experienced programmer. However, I have good communication skills, a good grasp on technical issues and lots of sysadmin experience on Linux, OpenSolaris and other Unices. I have a good feeling for usability and ergonomy of applications and web sites as well and love beta testing new stuff. See the "about me" section on my home page/blog for pointers to the various sites that I'm active on: http://www.lenzg.net/about.html
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Karma points

240

Blog

http://www.lenzg.net/

Twitter

http://twitter.com/lenzgr

Skills

Desktop : Embbeded : Hardware : Microformats : Mobile : Perl : PHP : Python : Security : Sysadmin : Web