Kristaps Kulis - Friday

Hacker with 5 year experience and versatile skill-set covering everything needed to build and maintain web application system. Experienced in development and operation of web, dns, email and virtualization.

Born 1990, with Latvian citizenship. Speaks Latvian (native), English and Russian fluently, Swedish at beginner level

Technical knowledge

• Operating systems

  Linux, FreeBSD

• Programming related

  Python, Django, Git, PHP, SQL, Mercurial, Subversion, Node.JS, jQuery

• Protocols

  TCP/IP, DNS, IMAP, LDAP, HTTP, SSH

• Server software

  Nginx, Apache, Varnish, MySQL, Munin, OpenSSH, Postgres, PF

Focus areas

• unix-like web system engineering and administration
• performance monitoring and auditing
• web app security from auditing and defensive focus
• backend development and scaling

Achievements

• Maintainer of FreeBSD gunicorn port
• PENDING - author of django Latvian localflavour

Would like to learn/do

• Get better at Python by doing some larger project in other framework than Django
• Became Mejin in black art of regex-fu
• Try using various techs as Cassandra, Redis, Twisted
• Do some real stuff with MongoDB / Cassandra

Other interests

• History
• Literature
• Cryptography
• Music