Curriculum Vitae

Gábor Kövesdán

Personal Information

  • Name: Gábor Kövesdán

  • Nationality: Hungarian

  • Resident of: Budapest, Hungary

  • Birth date: 2 August 1987

  • Gender: Male

Contact Information

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