About me

I am a helpdesk zen master, muckin' around with a lot of miscellanous tech since 1998. I work at a web hosting company, mostly doing linux system admin and help desk work.

Check out my 'interactive business card'-site at macgillavry.name. I also do LinkedIn. This is a quasi-personal website, with general inanity and rants. My quasi-professional website can be found at tremata.nl.

This is me:

  • LAMP administration and coding
    • Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL most of the time.
    • Secondary languages jQuery, XML, XPath, Xquery and the like.
    • SVN for SCM.
    • Experience with FreeBSD, Postfix, Amavisd, maia-mailguard, Cacti, Backuppc, Plesk clusters.
    • Extensive experience with Bind9, Nagios3 (& integration), Edge mailservers.
  • CMSses, e-commerce and webdevelopment
    • I do a lot of work with Drupal.
    • I like wiki's, have implemented and administrated several, and use them day-to-day as collaborative tools. My wiki of choice is Mediawiki.
    • Experience with most mainstream OSS server products: SugarCRM, phpBB, Magento, osCommerce derivatives, etc.
    • Will testdrive nearly any new, shiny, OSS software.
  • Linux and OSS
    • Ubuntu Server for Shiny Servers
    • Debian Stable / Ubuntu LTS for production servers
    • Kubuntu for desktops and laptops
    • Almost exclusively use OSS desktop/server software. It just is better.

At the moment I'm working a day-job as a helpdesk/linux admin lackey and enjoying life. As per my contract i'm not accepting any work right now.

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