Tobias Brox
Sysadm at BeWelcome.org
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Brox is a seasoned sysadmin with 15+ years of experience building and operating resilient hosting and managed services from Oslo, with deep hands-on expertise in monitoring, configuration management (Puppet), caching (Varnish) and incident-ready operations. He has moved between roles spanning backend development, DBA and data warehousing to long-term operational ownership at Redpill Linpro, and contributes to open-source projects such as Python's icalendar where he improved timezone and UTC handling. An advocate for open access and practical decentralization, he founded a community MediaWiki for boating and engages with Bitcoin peer-to-peer cash trades out of idealism as well as curiosity. Comfortable running production infrastructure for media and B2B customers, he combines pragmatic engineering with a history in teaching and data-driven problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Statistics, Computer Science, Pedagogics, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science, Pedagogics at Universitetet i Tromsø (UiT)
Github Skills (12)
zone10
debug10
timezone10
iics10
python10
icalendar10
testing9
unit-test9
parserator9
unit-testing9
parser9
rfc8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
collective/icalendar
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
icalendar parser library for Python
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 49 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements related to time zone handling within the iCalendar library. They addressed issues with datetime objects, particularly concerning the `zoneinfo` library. Furthermore, the user made changes to ensure that timestamps in UTC are correctly formatted. Their work included modifications to test files and the core parsing logic.
icalendarparser-librarypythonparseralarm
nylas/caldav
Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:71 commits in 1 year 3 months
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