====== Résumé (Curriculum Vitae) ======

**Xavier Torres**

**Penedès - CATALONIA**

===== CREATIVE EXPERIENCE =====

^ 2015 - Today | [[eXoCat|eXO.cat]] member |
^ 2008 - Today | Building [[guifi.net|guifi.net]] nodes in Catalonia |
^ 2007 & 2008 | Staff at Palamós Lan Party 2007 & 2008: build & admin Linux network servers | 
^ 2001 | Testing first 802.11 Wireless Lan PCMCIA & PCI adapters with cantennas |
^ 2001 | Building a free Unix shell service with my friend [[http://js.gl/|Josep Subils]] with a couple of noisy SPARCs |
^ 1998 | Packet radio with CB radios and Soundblaster |
^ 1997 | Building the first internet café in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Brava|Costa Brava]]: Linux + iptables + Win95 poledit |
^ 1994 to 2000 | Hacking sessions at home's LAN: Unix & VAX hacking, phone phreaking, watching HACKERS movie...  |



===== PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE =====

^ 2009 - today    | AENA   | Information technologies for airports. |
^ 2002 - 2014    | IT consulting services as a freelancer | ecommerce, web hosting, corporative website creation. |
^ 2002 - 2006    | [[ibm|INSA, IBM Global Services]] | AIX Unix division for banking.          | 
^ 2002 - 2002    | Cablematic Dos Mil, S.L. | Sales agent.          | 
^ 2000 - 2001    | [[krypton_networks|Krypton Networks, S.L.]] | IT specialist, UNIX services, computer security.          | 
^ 1999 - 2000    | Linux Girona, S.L. | Linux services deployment. |
^ 1998 - 2000    | Escola d'Hostaleria Sant Narcís | IT services, network admin. |
^ 1996 - 1998    | Televisió de Palamós | TV graphics with Amiga platform. |

===== TRAINING =====
^ 1979 - Today | Self-taught | Everything I can learn: Go, Unix, Security, Erlang, SQL, NoSQL, LUKS, LVM... |
^ 2019 - Today | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | Computer engineering official studies. |
^ 1998 - 2000 | Institut Montilivi - Girona | Computer science official studies (CFGS/FPII). |
^ 1993 - 1997 | Escola Vedruna - Palamós | High School |
^ 1987 - 1998 | Big Ben School of English | Native scottish teachers |
^ 1995 - 1997 | Self-1 | C & C++ advanced programming. Assembler. Operating systems (Unix, OS/2) |
^ 1993 - 1995 | Acadèmia Tecna | GWBASIC, Framework IV, Assembler, FTP, NNTP/Usenet, Mosaic |

===== SKILLS =====

^ Operating Systems    | GNU/Linux, NetBSD, {{:wiki:ibm:img_3653.jpg?linkonly|AIX}}, Solaris, HP-UX, AmigaOS. |
^ Programming Languages | PHP, C, C++, Go, Korn Shell, Bash, Awk, Assembler/86, COBOL-85, SQL. |
^ System Architecture | Xen, Proxmox, LVM, BSD CGD, TincVPN, OpenVPN, SAN(linux), HAProxy, MySQL cluster |
^ System Security | opnSense, BSD packetfilter, Linux iptables, LUKS, BSDCGD, Tinc VPN, OpenVPN, Wireguard. |
^ DBA | MySQL Cluster, Redis cluster, Oracle, SQLite, PostgreSQL, COBOL ISAM, BerkeleyDB, CouchDB. |
^ Hardware | {{ :wiki:personalprojects:hp9000_1.jpg?linkonly |HP9000}}, {{ :wiki:ibm:img_3647.jpg?linkonly |IBM RS/6000}}, Sun {{ :wiki:ibm:img_02_.jpg?linkonly |UltraSPARC}}, Intel: HP Proliant, DELL Poweredge. IBM Z/Series HMC |
^ Networking | Cisco IOS, OpenWRT, opnSense, Nortel, Enterasys, Mikrotik RouterOS, UBNT AirOS, Linux & BSD networking |
^ Monitoring | Custom Korn & Bash shell scripts, Nagios, RRDTool, Cacti. |
^ Cryptocurrency | Bitcoin and Monero API based microservices programming. Realtime value monitoring. |
^ e-mail | Postfix, Procmail, Mailman, virtual domains, SPAM filtering, ClamAV, SpamAssassin. |