Michael Smith
FreeBSD Consultant at Michael Smith
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Smith is a seasoned FreeBSD consultant and full‑stack systems engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a continuous self-employed practice dating back to 2005. Based in Antwerp, he blends low‑level Unix expertise with web development—having built and maintained Ruby on Rails platforms for multiple companies and currently developing the Bpact Multipanel. He has founded and co‑founded several ventures and served in security and training roles, giving him a pragmatic mix of entrepreneurial, ops, and security perspectives. Currently at Perceval Technologies, he focuses on FreeBSD consultancy while still shipping product features as an active developer. His background in physics and translation hints at analytical rigor and an ability to navigate technical multilingual environments, which complements his cyberpunk personal brand.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Russian Translator and Interpreter, Russian Translator and Interpreter at Artesis Hogeschool AntwerpenPhysics, Physics at University of AntwerpSecondary school degree Computer Science, Secondary school degree Computer Science at Secundaire Handelsschool Sint-Lodewijk
Github Skills (187)
devise10
nix10
authentication10
ruby10
nixos10
linux10
spree10
sensor10
cookbook10
rails10
nixpkgs10
warden10
gameserver9
amiga9
difference9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
michaelshmitty/bitmuseum-inventory
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
Inventory webapp for Bitmuseum
Contributions:12 PRs, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
inventoryreactwebapp
michaelshmitty/nixpkgs
Jan 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:112 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 9 months
nixosnix-packages
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