Geert B.

Senior application developer and analyst with a strong bias towards open-source and transparent development practices. I'm very passionate about my work and always aim to create the best product for my customers and their users. Notable highlights: * Developed and co-designed EigenD, the software for the most expressive electronic instrument in the world, the Eigenharp * Expanded Terracotta DSO and integrated it with Ehcache to lay the foundation of BigMemory * Created the Java continuations web framework, RIFE * Spoke at many software development conferences, both in Europe and the US. * Was officially voted as one of the 300 Java Champions in the world out of a pool of nearly 6,000,000 Java developers worldwide. * Pioneered the Gentoo Linux distribution as one of the creators * Active YouTube channel with close to 500 subscribers and almost half a million views * Composed, wrote, recorded, arranged and produced several albums of my own music Notable open-source projects: * EigenD: [login to view URL] * Juce: [login to view URL] * Terracotta: [login to view URL] * RIFE: [login to view URL] * Gentoo Linux: [login to view URL] * Bla-bla List: [login to view URL] * Drone: [login to view URL] * JavaPaste: [login to view URL] Languages: Java, C++, C, Objective-C, Python, Javascript, PHP, Perl, Bash Frameworks: Juce, iOS, MacOSX, Terracotta DSO, Ehcache, RIFE, Spring, DWR, Hibernate, Quartz Scheduler, ExtJS, Prototype, JQuery, ASM, Lucene, JavaMail, Apache Commons, Swing, Java2D, Java Advanced Imaging (JAI), Apache Axis, Caucho Hessian. Databases: SQLite, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Derby, H2, MySQL Specifications: Servlets, JDBC, JSP, JavaBeans, JEE, REST, Hessian, SOAP, XML-RPC, CGI, HTTP, HTML, CSS, DHTML, XML, XSL, XPath, XPointer, RSS, Atom, RDF, LaTeX, SGML, DSSSL, DocBook. Web Service APIs: Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 Musical Instruments: Eigenharp, Acoustic steel-string Guitar, Electric Guitar, MIDI Guitar, Vocals Specialties: Distributed applications, Cloud, JVM Level Clustering, Custom development, OpenLaszlo, Dynamic websites, Rich internet applications, Platform-independent programs, Usable GUI, Interoperable web services, Open-source, Web application framework, Database design, Senior analyst, Online communities, Information bot, Task management, Music, Speaker, Conference, Technically-challenging, Presentations, Author, Composer, Passionate, Long-term collaborations, Electronic music, Guitar, Digital audio