Curriculum Vitae

Gábor Kövesdán

<gabor@kovesdan.org>

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Personal Information

  * Name: Gábor Kövesdán

  * Nationality: Hungarian

  * Resident of: Budapest, Hungary

  * Birth date: 2 August 1987

  * Gender: Male

Contact Information

  * Mailing address: Pozsonyi u. 2/b, Budapest, 1045, Hungary

  * Phone: +36 30 434 04 06

  * E-mail: <gabor@kovesdan.org>

  * Web: http://www.kovesdan.org

Technical Skills Summary

  * Software development: C, Java, make, shell scripting, UML

  * Software engineering management: CVS, Perforce, Mercurial, SVN,
    GNATS, Request Tracker

  * System administration: FreeBSD, Linux, Apache, BIND, Mailing
    systems with spam filtering tools, MySQL, PostgreSQL, IRC networks,
    packet filtering

  * Technical documentation: SGML, XML, HTML, XHTML, DocBook, XSLT, CSS

  * Site building and CMS: Drupal 6, Gallery 2, Wordpress

Technical Experience

  * 2004 - present: T-Hosting.Hu System Adminsitrator: web, e-mail,
    database, DNS

  * 2006 - present: FreeBSD Volunteer: Packaging system, documentation,
    translation to Hungarian and Spanish

Education

  * 1995 - 1998: Elementary School with German Department

  * 1998 - 2006: Babits Mihály secondary grammar school

  * 2006 - 2010: Technical University of Budapest, Computer Engineering
    (BSc), Speacialization in Planning of Computer Infrastructures

  * 2010 - present: Technical University of Budapest, Computer
    Engineering (MSc), Specialization in Applied Informatics

Certifications

  * ECDL Certification

  * Sun Certified Java Programmer 6

Scholarships

  * 2006: Google Summer of Code 2006: Improvements in the FreeBSD
    packaging system infrastructure.

  * 2007: Google Summer of Code 2007: Further improvements in the
    FreeBSD packaging system infrastructure.

  * 2008: Google Summer of Code 2008: Porting work on grep, sort and
    diff from OpenBSD to FreeBSD.

  * 2009: Google Summer of Code 2009: Porting work on the iconv
    character conversion library and utilities from NetBSD to FreeBSD.

Conferences

  * 2008: Scientific Student Conference: Free Software in Everyday Life
    (in Spanish), third prize

  * 2009: Scientific Student Conference: Dialects of the Spanish
    language (in Spanish), first prize

  * 2009: Scientific Student Conference: Implementation of a POSIX
    character conversion library library for the FreeBSD operating
    system

Language Skills

  * Hungarian: Native

  * Spanish: Level C2

    2008: Diploma de Espańol como Lengua Extranjera (D.E.L.E.),
    Proficiency Level (C2)

  * English: Level C1

    2008: Technical University of Budapest, Advanced Level (C1), oral
    exam

    2004: Technical University of Budapest, Intermediate Level (B2),
    written and oral exam

  * German: Level B2

    2004: Technical University of Budapest, Intermediate Level (B2),
    written and oral exam

  * Portuguese: Level B1

  * Italian: Level A2

  * Dutch: Level A1

Other qualifications

  * Driving License: A1, B

Other areas of interest

  * Learn foreign languages

  * Photography

  * Reading any kind of books

  * Latin-American dances