Curriculum Vitae

• Full name: Jakob Østergaard
• Title: Cand. Polyt. (M.Sc. (Computer Science / Applied Mathematics))
• Born: 3rd of March, 1976, Denmark
• Citizenship: Danish
• Address: Ved Andebakken 3, ST TH; 2000 Frederiksberg
• E-mail: jakob@unthought.net

Languages:

• Danish (mothertongue)
• English (excellent)
• German (not good)
• French (terrible)

Education:

Employment history:

• Summer 1995 and 1996, Kampsax Geoplan
  Worked with: Digital scanning of aerial photographs, data storage and batch processing/scripting, etc.
• 1998-1999, UNI-C (Danish Computing Center for Research and Education)
  Primary work: Parallelization of existing simulation software. Also did research and from-scratch software development.
• Autumn 2000, Innovative Computing Laboratory University of Tennessee, Knoxville / Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Worked on systems and infrastructure for large-scale parallel computations
• 1999-2001, Solit Solutions / Cohaesio
  Monitoring tools development, cluster computing consultancy and special development tasks.
• 2004-2007, various positions in a short/medium range reconnaissance patrol unit in the Danish national guard. Appointed Corporal and Squad leader in 2006.
• 2001-current, Evalesco Systems ApS.
  R&D Manager

Skills and interests:

• Programming languages:
  • Have worked with C++ since 1996 (before ANSI standardisation)
  • Have worked with C since 1995
  • Experience with Perl and shell-scripting (mainly bash) since 1995
  • I have also worked with: Haskell, Pascal, Fortran-77, ML and others
• Development:
  • Experience with infrastructure such as source code revision control systems and make files, concurrent development, bug tracking, release cycles etc.
  • Experience with code organization and generally the work on larger code projects
  • Experience with design of distributed systems and their related security, scalability and reliability concerns
• Operating systems:
  • Have worked with development on GNU/Linux systems since 1996
  • Have used and programmed for Solaris, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, Tru64, NT, OS/2 and NetWare
• Hardware I have worked with:
  • Through my career I have worked with many different types of systems from SGI Origin ccNUMA supercomputers, the IBM SP/2 massively parallel supercomputer platform, Sun Enterprise systems over varios UNIX workstations to more standard personal computers and servers as well as thin clients.
• Others:
  • I have worked with development of distributed systems for many years
  • Scalability, performance and reliability is a big area of interest for me and has been a common theme in much of my work over the years
  • System administration experience (mainly on GNU/Linux) since 1997
  • Maintainer of Software-RAID documentation for the Linux kernel