Tomáš Pospíšek: Curriculum Vitae

About my person

I was born 1969, got a degree in computer science (University of Fribourg, with minor subject general psychology) quite a while after and am sometimes working as a freelancer/contractor and sometimes being employed. I have spent my life in different parts of Switzerland and on travels on this globe. I'm living with my family in the north of Switzerland.

After studies I worked as a freelancer on several software development projects. 1995 I co-founded and built up the internet provider SPIN, where I was responsible for the technical aspects and was leading a small tech team.

At the end of 1998 I quit SPIN and was traveling around during 1999.

Mid-2000 Pirmin Kalberer and I founded Sourcepole, a company that started with Linux and Open Source engineering and services and has specialized in Open Source Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in recent years. In teams, independently or with third parties we do projects sized from one person-month to multiple years with dozens of participants.

Since 2002 I've been giving lectures at the Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften and am overseeing students' assignments. My subjects are systems programming, operating systems, high availability, data communication, firewalls, Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

In 2013 I went traveling around the world for a year in a motor home with my two kids.

Currently I'm systems administrator at Sourcepole. You can reach me at tpo_hp@sourcepole.ch

Computer languages, systems and technologies

Computer Networks

From 1995 to 1999 I was doing the technical (and less also the organisational) part of running SPIN - a regional ISP. Through this work I have gained experience in the following areas:

One of my tasks at T-Systems during the year 2009 was to verify and correct the network architecture and effective connectivity of a very critical core realtime system.

After 2010, as part of a team I helped to designe, architect, an migrate a mid-sized mixed technologies wide area network from a Cisco based core router architectur to a Cumulus based spine and leaf architecture.

Completed projects

These are the projects that were completed during my professional career (in chronological order):

Colaboration on Open Source projects:

These projects were completed during university studies.

Teaching

"Foreign" languages

I am able to communicate in spoken and written German, English, French, Italian and Czech, however my Czech orthography is sub-standard.