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            Resume
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                        Keywords go here!
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            If you’re a recruiter (and why else would you be here?), you may want to read <a href="{filename}work-preferences.rst">my preferences</a> before reading on.  It will save both of us valuable time.
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                I am <span class="b" itemprop="name">Gergely Polonkai</span> (sometimes referred
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                to as <span itemprop="nickname">W00d5t0ck</span> or <span
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                itemprop="nickname">Polesz</span>), a <span class="b" itemprop="jobTitle">software
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                developer, systems engineer and administrator</span>. I was born on <span
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                class="b" itemprop="birthDate">7 March, 1983</span> in Budapest, Hungary. I spent
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                my life moving here-and-there in the country, and finally settled in <span
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                class="b" itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Address"> <span
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                itemprop="locality">Veresegyház</span></span>.
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            <p>
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                You can reach me on <span class="b" itemprop="email">gergely@polonkai.eu</span>,
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                or by phone on <span class="b" itemprop="telephone">+36 (30) 7375-706</span>. I
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                fluently speak and write <span class="b">English</span> and <span
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                class="b">Hungarian</span> and currently learning Icelandic.
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            </p>
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            <p>
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                I have <span class="b">graduated in 2001</span> from <span class="i">Táncsics
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                Mihály Szakközépiskola, Szakiskola és Kollégium</span>, an architecture high
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                school based in Veszprém, Hungary. There, I learned about <span
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                class="b">electricity and elevators</span>, while getting my feet wet in the area
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                of IT systems engineering. Together with some teachers, we developed <span
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                class="b keyword" title="network building">the IT infrastructure of the school,
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                building it from scratch</span> with <span class="b keyword">Windows XP</span>
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                based clients, and <span class="b keyword">Debian GNU/Linux</span> servers with
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                <span class="b keyword">Squid proxy</span>, an <span class="b keyword">Apache
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                httpd</span> web server, <span class="b keyword">Exim</span>+<span class="b
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                keyword">Courier IMAP</span> based internal mailing and a <span class="b
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                keyword">Samba file server</span>. Meanwhile, I have created the school’s first
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                <span class="b keyword" title="web development">web page</span> using <span
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                class="b keyword">Perl CGI</span>, and later it’s replacement in <span class="b
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                keyword">PHP</span>.  Although I did that as a student, I consider it my first
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                job.
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            </p>
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            <p>
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                My first contract was made in <span class="b">2002</span> with a small Budapest
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                based ISP that served Internet connection to a large warren. I have mastered Linux
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                based <span class="b keyword" title="firewalls">firewalling and routing</span>
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                there using <span class="b keyword noupper">iptables</span>, and <span class="b
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                keyword" title="QoS">tc for QoS</span>. I have also created a <span class="b">web
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                page</span> for the company using <span class="b keyword">PHP</span> and <span
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                class="b keyword" title="MySQL database development">MySQL</span>.
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            </p>
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            <p>
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                After that I contracted with a small <span class="b">web development
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                company</span> in <span class="b">2004</span>.  Here I was in the role of both a
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                <span class="b keyword" title="web development">web developer</span> and a <span
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                class="b keyword" title="Systems administration">systems administrator</span>. I
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                have mastered <span class="b keyword">PHP</span> there, together with <span
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                class="b keyword">MySQL administration</span>. I also built a small <span class="b
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                keyword" title="routers">router</span>/<span class="b keyword"
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                title="firewalls">firewall</span> out of a PC for office needs.
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            <p>
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                My next job came in <span class="b">2006</span>, when I contracted with a small
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                <span class="b">VoIP company</span> developing a call center software based on
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                <span class="b keyword">Asterisk</span>. My job here was to create a base system
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                for this software as small as possible, while managing the old, Ubuntu based
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                ones. For the new version we targeted <span class="b keyword">Gentoo Linux</span>
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                because of its possible small size, and performance reasons.
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                The job that followed was with a world-wide IT services company in <span
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                class="b">2007</span>, where I became a member of a large team supporting and
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                administering several thousand servers, mostly based on <span class="b
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                keyword">Red Hat Enterprise Linux</span> and <span class="b keyword">SUSE Linux
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                Enterprise Server</span>. There I mastered cluster technologies (both <span
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                class="b keyword">Heartbeat 2</span> and <span class="b keyword">Red Hat
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                Cluster</span>), <span class="b keyword">SAN</span>, <span class="b keyword
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                noupper">iSCSI</span> and <span class="b keyword">NFS</span> based storages, <span
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                class="b keyword">Apache httpd</span> and <span class="b keyword">Tomcat</span>
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                web servers, administration of <span class="b keyword" title="MySQL
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                administration">MySQL</span> and <span class="b keyword" title="Oracle 10g
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                Database Administration">Oracle 10g Database</span>s, <span class="b
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                keyword">Bacula</span> based backup, <span class="b keyword">Windows 2003
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                Server</span> and <span class="b keyword">Windows Server 2008</span> (both
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                standalone and cluster) with <span class="b keyword">Active Directory</span>,
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                <span class="b keyword">Group Policy</span>, <span class="b keyword">Microsoft
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                Exchange Server 2005</span> and <span class="b keyword">Microsoft SQL Server
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                2005</span>, <span class="b keyword">Xen Open Source</span> virtualization, <span
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                class="b keyword">Citrix XenServer</span> and <span class="b keyword"
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                title="Citrix XenApp">XenApp</span>, <span class="b keyword">VMware ESXi</span>
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                and <span class="b keyword" title="VMware vSphere">vSphere</span>, <span class="b
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                keyword">Nagios</span> monitoring (and <span class="b keyword">monitoring</span>
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                in general), and last, but not least, <span class="b keyword">Linux
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                hardening</span> (<span class="b keyword">SELinux</span>, firewalls of different
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                kinds, fighting <span class="b keyword">application security</span> issues).
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                All this knowledge came in very handy, when I went to a leading Hungarian
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                financial company in <span class="b">2010</span>. The IT infrastructure was in a
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                very bad shape there, and my job was to rebuild the Linux parts from scratch. We
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                utilized <span class="b keyword">Debian GNU/Linux</span> servers (both standalone
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                and <span class="b keyword">Heartbeat 2</span> clusters), <span class="b
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                keyword">Apache httpd</span> web servers, <span class="b
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                keyword">Exim</span>+<span class="b keyword">Courier IMAP</span> for mailing,
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                <span class="b keyword">Bacula</span> based backup, <span class="b keyword"
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                title="MySQL administration">MySQL</span> and <span class="b keyword"
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                title="PostgreSQL administration">PostgreSQL</span> database servers, <span
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                class="b">Oracle Database</span>s (both <span class="keyword" title="Oracle 10g
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                Database Administration">10g</span> and <span class="keyword" title="Oracle 11g
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                Database Administration">11g</span>), <span class="b">Microsoft SQL Server</span>s
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                (both <span class="keyword" title="Microsoft SQL Server 2005">2005</span> and
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                <span class="keyword" title="Microsoft SQL Server 2008">2008</span>), <span
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                class="b keyword">Windows 2003 Server</span> and <span class="b keyword">Windows
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                Server 2008</span> (both standalone and clusters), <span class="b keyword">Active
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                Directory</span>, <span class="b keyword">Group Policy</span>, centralised <span
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                class="b keyword">ESET NOD32 anti-virus</span>, <span class="b keyword">Windows
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                cluster</span> based <span class="b keyword" title="Microsoft File Server">file
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                server with AD backend</span>, <span class="b keyword">WSUS</span>, <span class="b
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                keyword">OTRS::ITSM</span> helpdesk, <span class="b keyword">Zabbix</span> based
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                monitoring, virtualization with <span class="b keyword">Citrix XenServer</span>,
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                IT security solutions with <span class="b keyword">SonicWall</span> appliances,
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                <span class="b keyword">SELinux</span>, <span class="b keyword">Snort</span> and
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                <span class="b keyword noupper">iptables</span>, <span class="b
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                keyword">Perl</span> for system administration scripts, and <span class="b
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                keyword">PHP</span> and the <span class="b keyword">Symfony 2</span> framework for
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                internal web development. Although much has changed in this list since then, it
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                was my best and most challenging experience so far.
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            <p>
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                I left that company in <span class="b">2013</span> to work as a <span
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                class="b">freelancer developer</span> and a <span class="b">systems
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                engineer</span> for a <span class="b">startup network monitoring
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                company</span>. Here we were building a help desk system using open source
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                products like <span class="b keyword">OTRS::ITSM</span>, <span class="b
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                keyword">OpenLDAP</span>, and <span class="b keyword">Zabbix</span>. I also dug my
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                nose into <span class="b keyword">Docsis</span> based ISP networks and <span
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                class="b keyword">SIP</span>-based telephony.
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                Unfortunately our main employer went bankrupt in <span class="b">2014</span>, so
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                after a few months of freelancing I got a new job at the R&D division of a
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                leading telecommunications company. My current role is pretty close to
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                DevOps. Nowadays I’m developing a <span class="b keyword">Django</span>-based
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                internal web application, while maintaining internal scripts written in both <span
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                class="b keyword">Perl</span>, <span class="b keyword">Python</span>, <span
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                class="b keyword">bash</span> and <span class="b keyword">tcsh</span> or trying to
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                migrate the internal source code repositories from <span class="b
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                keyword">ClearCase</span> to <span class="b keyword">Git</span>.
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                I left that company in 2016, as such a slow moving giant couldn’t really keep up
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                with my pace.  I signed with another startup creating games capable of analysing
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                work behaviour.  Here we mainly use <span class="b keyword">Flask</span>, <span
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                class="b keyword">Cassandra</span>, and <span class="b keyword">Tensorflow</span>.
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                Unlike the previous one, this is a true learning organization, and given its size,
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                it is capable of taking quick turns if market changes (and that’s exactly what I
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                need).
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                In my <span class="b">free time</span>, I wander in forests, take pictures, and
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                sometimes manipulate them with the <span class="b keyword">GIMP</span>. Sometimes
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                I <span class="b">write</span> short fantasy or sci-fi novels using <span class="b
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                keyword">LibreOffice</span>. I am also developing some software in <span class="b
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                keyword">C</span>, <span class="b keyword">Python</span>, and <span class="b
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                keyword">Vala</span>, whose source code is managed with <span class="b
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                keyword">Git</span>. When I’m not in the mood for writing, I go and check out the
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                news on several technical areas, mostly IT and engineering, or give a try to a new
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                programming language in the name of “why not?”.
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