Michael Haardt

E-Mail: michael@moria.de
Address: Güstener Straße 8, 52445 Titz

Summary

I am a skilled system software architect, with excellent analytical abilities up to working interdisciplinary, many years of experience based on a solid education background, and strong dedication to reach my aims by working hard and creatively.

Being active in software development on various systems since the eighties, since 1990 I focus on UNIX and embedded systems with extensive experience as both systems programmer, user and administrator, including many classic internet services. I like working on design and architecture, and always keep operability in mind. Beside technical tools, I use methods of quality management; encourage by visions and gain authority by competence.

I work well by myself and with small teams. I lead efficient meetings, preferring the structured and productive ways of communication known from many development mailing lists on the internet. I dislike travelling and prefer video conferences instead.

I can successfully manage a team, but I really do enjoy working in an expert level position designing and implementing software architecture on a project scope, supporting multiple teams on demand.

I am looking for a senior/consulting software architect position with possibility of professional growth and most important: Moving technological frontiers.

Professional Interests

Low level system and networking programming on various platforms from small micros to large clusters
Performance analysis and improvement
Implementation of subsystems with a strong focus on performance, protocol compliance and operation qualities
Distributed systems and operating systems

Professional Skills

Concurrent programming in C (drivers, protocols, interrupt handling, threads, IPC, shared memory) on various platforms
UNIX and Linux programming in C (various versions), good API knowledge, tools valgrind, gprof, gdb, make, autoconf.
System level programming of internet servers and clients for SMTP/POP3/IMAP4, NNTP, FTP, HTTP and NTP in a cluster environment
Network load balancing and firewalling with iptables
First hand understanding of the requirements for operating 24x7 services (determining, visualizing and monitoring vital system parameters and creating workflows for troublefree maintenance)
Participating in standardization process of the e-mail filter language Sieve (IETF mail filter working group) and implementation of Sieve for Exim, co-author of RFC 5436
Image sensor analysis and photometry

Professional Experience

03/2015 - present	Consulting software engineer at Cognex Aachen GmbH, Aachen
02/2011 - 02/2015	Principal software engineer at Cognex Ltd. (German branch), later Cognex Aachen GmbH, Aachen
07/2008 - 01/2011	Postmaster team lead at freenet.de GmbH, Düsseldorf (merge of freenet.de AG with MobilCom AG to freenet AG, IT later outsourced to freenet.de GmbH)
11/1999 - 06/2008	Postmaster at freenet.de AG, Düsseldorf (Employment contract taken over from roka GmbH)
09/1998 - 10/1999	Network administrator at roka GmbH, Krefeld Development, implementation and operation of a scalable e-mail system for 01019freenet.de, the new internet service business unit of MobilCom AG
03/1997 - 06/1998	Undergraduate student assistent at GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH, Institut für angewandte Informationstechnik, St. Augustin Working on a distributed runtime environment for Java agents and writing my diploma thesis on the same
06/1994 - 12/1996	Undergraduate student assistent Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Theoretische Informatik, RWTH Aachen, Prof. Baader Administration of a UNIX cluster (Solaris 2.x) including OS maintenance, FTP, WWW and FAX

Education

Rheinisch-Westfälisch Technische Hochschule Aachen, diploma with major computer science and minor economics, graduated with "very good (1)".

Personal Interests

Author of various free software projects (GNU diction, a folding text editor, a BASIC interpreter and more)
Linux documentation project (writing manual pages, part of any Linux distribution)
Home reconstruction, construction physics, alternative energy, astronomy