emil krueper

In my working life I am an trained IT specialist and fiddle around with almost everything I stumble across. I am fascinated by sheer computing power and large scale file storage systems. On the other hand I like to make it all as small and efficient as possible and to deploy the result on itty bitty devices. In general my areas of interest include enterprise-wide systems, database technologies, network & system administration, security, operating systems, programming, desktop environments, software engineering, web development, and project management.

My uncle Pertti Nuorimaa gave me and my two brothers our first computer in 1984. It was an Apple II. One or two years later we received his disused 80286 and then again a year later we got an i386DX. So the years passed and I had begun to spent my pocket money in my hobby. Years later I downloaded my first GNU/Linux ISO image. I think it was something like Redhat 6.2. I got bitten by the bug and checked at least a dozen other distributions within the next weeks, roamed around the internet seeking for good manuals and howtos and so I remember good and bad times with Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Suse etc. Apart from the Linux distributions I have been working with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX . My preferred distributions are Debian GNU/Linux and Gentoo Linux. I have been working with Debian since potato and I’ve begun to play with Gentoo some months after the version 1.2 was released. Nevertheless I am proficient in handling almost every Linux/Unix environment and I still test other distributions quite frequently. There are good approaches out there.

Currently I live in Lübeck. In the the past three years I have been working at a medium-sized company specialized in mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering. There I’ve been chiefly responsible for building and deploying time critical and security critical embedded GNU/Linux operating systems for industrial PC and special purpose machines and furthermore I have worked as the administrator of the mixed operating system corporate LAN and WAN. I’ve been responsible for all the desktop workstations & terminal clients, routers, switches and servers. And I’ve been in charge of project specific software and hardware evaluation and thus the procurement.

Since November 2008 I am working for the Astrum Online Entertainment GmbH in Hamburg. I am there responsible for the server administration and work close together with my russian colleagues to mantain the high availability of our services.

Here is a probably incomplete list of my skills and more or less usual utilities I have used in the past, I might update it now and then.

some Perl, shell, c, c++, java, php, html, css, xml

HA-MySQL

Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Mandrake, Mandriva, Slackware, Suse, OpenSuse, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, MS-DOS, Windows 3.1 - 2003 Server

Apache, Lighttpd, Postfix, Sendmail, Exchange, Courier, Dovecot, smtp, imap, pop3, HAProxy, Pound, Heartbeat, Keepalived, ssl/tls, ssh, vsftpd, Proftpd, Pure-ftpd, dhcp, bind, Wireshark, OpenVPN, LTSP, Active Directory, Samba, LDAP, Citrix, xen, Vmware Server, Nagios, Cacti, Iptables, AIDE, snort, fcheck, Bacula, rsync, Amanda, Squid, Dansguardian, SquidGuard, Beowulf, OpenMosix, DistCC, PVM etc.

Git, subversion, CVS

GNU development tools, Distcc, Uclibc, Busybox, qt, Openembedded

Anjuta, Kdevelop, Eclipse, Netbeans

Gimp, Photoshop

Further I am interested in flyfishing and spinfishing, especially for sea trout in the Baltic Sea. However, as I am keen on fishing somewhere else, I will delightfully accept every invitation. My other hobby is playing drums. I have been playing drums since 1992 and I think I am a quite good by now. And of course I enjoy travelling to other places.

For those who care: I have the Finnish and the German nationality. Unfortunately I haven’t been that often in Finnland for quite a few years now, so my Finnish language is rusting.

I am verry happy in a relationship, father of two boys and mostly enjoy life. EOF.