User:Gbraad

Gerard Braad
Gerard Braad
Personal Information
Birthday:	February 22, 1981
Home:	Beijing, PRC
Fedora-specific Information
FAS-Name:	gbraad
Fedora-Mail:	gbraad@fedoraproject.org
Miscellaneous Information
Private Mail:	me@gbraad.nl
GPG-Key:	592CFE75
IRC:	gbraad on Libera.chat in
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Gerard Braad — 吉拉德

Software engineer for both Unix/Linux as Windows based software in different programming and scripting languages. Has broad knowledge about maintenance of a mixed OS and virtualization environment using both F/OSS and proprietary technologies. Active user of Red Hat Linux since the Vanderbilt release (RHL 4.1).

I am a developer with a unique blend of creative, managerial and technical talents. I am highly motivated and constantly trying to broaden and deepen my extensive knowledge and expertise. From childhood, I have been active in IT; I clearly turned my hobby into a career. Through my openness and involvement I can turn each problem into a challenge that needs to be tackled with a successful outcome. I can be technical, but have excellent communication skills as a team leader, a quality which I have shown many times as IT manager.

Recently I have worked for a software development company as a full-time developer for .NET, Java and dynamic languages. My last assignment dealt with interoperability and cross platform support (x86/Windows, Linux and ARM/Linux) of a large .NET codebase. As part of my interest I give lectures on software development (and Open Source) and promote Open Source activities throughout China. As hardware engineer I deal with MIPS, FPGA, ARM and DSP projects. Within Fedora I currently assist the Chinese Fedora Community and lead the Fedora-MIPS port.

Associate member of FSF, FSFe, ACM

Activities within Fedora

• Promotion and marketing of the Fedora brand
  • Short distro overview presentations Fedora Hour
  • Speaker about Open Source and Fedora at Linux User Groups, e.g. BeijingLUG
• Activities in China
  • Member of 中文用户组 / Fedora Zhongwen User Group ("FZUG")
  • Assisting the Chinese Fedora/Linux community
• Project-lead of the Fedora-MIPS port
• Compatibility testing for primary and secondary architectures (e.g. ARM, MIPS)
• Maintainer of coLinux images

Areas of Expertise

• Software Development
  • Desktop/web development
  • cross platform GUI
  • .NET, Java, Python, etc.
  • Performance tuning and debugging
• Continuous integration and deployment management
• System administration
  • Linux/Un*x and Windows
  • Broad knowledge of virtualization technologies
    • VMware ESX
    • KVM, OpenVZ, Qemu, Xen
• TCP/IP and network protocols
• Management
• Testing

Certifications

• Microsoft Certified Professional
• Sun Certified Java Programmer
• Object-Oriented Foundations
• etc.

External Links

• LinkedIn
• Yong Yuan