Developer Relations Specialist, published writer, and software developer with 26 years of professional experience.
Fluent in English, French, and Spanish; excellent German and Italian skills.
Nationality: Swiss • Website: akos.ma • Email: akosma@pm.me
Résumé: akos.ma/resume (PDF, MS Word, and LibreOffice)
Book: “Mobile JavaScript Application Development” – O’Reilly, 2012.
Book: “Sencha Touch: Up and Running” – O’Reilly, 2013.
Book: “Android for iOS Developers – Kotlin Edition 2018” – self published, 2017.
Magazine: “De Programmatica Ipsum” – a monthly publication about software engineering and society, since October 2018.
Newsletter: “VSHN.timer” – weekly newsletter about Kubernetes, OpenShift, CI/CD and DevOps, since August 2019. 200th issue in September 2023.
Reports: “DevOps in Switzerland” Reports 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Poster: co-author of the DevSecOps Poster.
Documentation: co-author of the VSHN Handbook, Knowledge Base, VSHN Control Panel Help System, APPUiO Cloud Documentation, Project Syn, and K8up.
Podcast: producer of the weekly “VSHN.timer” from October 2020 to March 2021.
Tutorial: “Monitoring Applications in APPUiO Cloud” – tutorial showing how to use Pushover, Prometheus, and Grafana on a shared Red Hat OpenShift cluster.
Tutorial: “Getting Started with Project Syn” – getting started guide for the Project Syn suite of tools, including video.
Skills: Asciidoctor, Antora, Markdown, Pandoc, LaTeX, Hugo, OBS Studio, Kdenlive, Audacity.
Co-organizer and host of the Cloud Native Computing Switzerland meetup group. Organization of 4 to 6 meetings every year: finding sponsors, evaluating speakers, hosting.
Named “Exoscale Ambassador” in 2023
Speaker: “Microservices or Not? Your Team has Already Decided” – speech at the Bundesamt für Informatik und Telekommunikation, Bern, Switzerland, November 2021.
Speaker: “A Decade of iPhone & iOS in 40 minutes” at UIKonf 2018, Berlin, Germany, May 2018.
Speaker: “Being A Developer After 40” at App Builders 2016, Zürich, Switzerland; Mobile Developer Summit 2016, Bangalore, India; MiXiT 2017, Lyon, France.
Full speaking history (2006-2023) at akos.ma/talks. Presentation slides on Speaker Deck. Speech transcripts at akos.ma/tags/speeches.
Docker, Podman, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, AWS.
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitOps Argo CD, GitLab, Jenkins.
Languages: Rust, Go, TypeScript, Python, F#, C#, PHP, Ruby.
Relational databases: PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server, MySQL.
API Dev: ASP.NET, Express, Oak, Actix, Quarkus, Flask, Slim.
IDEs: Visual Studio Code, Vim, Emacs, JetBrains suite.
Mobile Apps: iOS, Android, Web. Published apps: akos.ma/tags/apps.
Regular contributor at various GitHub and GitLab organizations.
“Sample containerized applications” – written in 20 programming languages for the APPUiO Cloud “Getting Started” guide.
Conway: (2017-) Conway’s Game of Life implemented in more than 30 programming languages.
Kroki Diagram Previewer: (2019-2020) Visual Studio Code extension.
SwiftMoment: (2015-2017) A time and calendar manipulation library written in Swift.
nib2objc: (2008-2012) Set of tools and utilities for iOS UI development. Featured in Ars Technica.
Master of Science in Information Technology with a specialization in Software Engineering, University of Liverpool, 2005-2008. Graduated with distinction. Thesis: “Cross-platform UML editor in C++.”
Digital Marketing Certificate Program, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2022.
Growing as a Marketing Manager, LinkedIn Learning, 2023.
Red Hat Sales Specialist - Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider (CCSP), 2022.
LFS258: Kubernetes Fundamentals, The Linux Foundation, 2022
Master the Mainframe Level 2, IBM, 2020
Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra, Multivariate Calculus. Imperial College London, 2019.
Crafting an Effective Writer: Tools of the Trade (Fundamental English Writing). Mt. San Jacinto College, 2014. With distinction.
Technical Writing: Quick Start Guides, LinkedIn Learning, 2023.
Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, 2010–2012.
Since May 2019: Developer Relations
VSHN is The DevOps Company, the fastest-growing Swiss startup in the Cloud Native, OpenShift, and Kubernetes markets, providing 24/7 support to businesses of all sizes.
As a technical member in the Marketing team, I take care of the three axis of Developer Relations: Content, Community, and Product.
Skills: Developer Relations · Digital Marketing · OpenShift · Communication · Presentations · Writing · Public Speaking · Software Development · Software Project Management · Container Orchestration · Agile Methodologies · Scrum · Web Applications · JavaScript · Software Engineering · Linux · Open Source · Python · Git · English · German
January 2018 – August 2018: Senior Software Engineer.
Vilea is a boutique software development shop in Zürich, Switzerland, specialized in mobile technologies.
Development of mobile and cloud solutions for various clients (Swiss Air Lines, Swisscom, Swyx, Schindler) in iOS, Android, and .NET Core 3.0: Objective-C, C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Docker, AWS.
Skills: Software Development · Agile Methodologies · Scrum · Web Applications · OOP · Software Engineering · Mobile Applications · iOS development · Objective-C · Android · Ruby on Rails · C# · Linux · Open Source · Python · Git · Italian
June 2016 – December 2017: Principal Trainer, Conference Speaker, and Book Author.
AKOSMA Training provided training services for software developers in mobile and cloud technologies.
Skills: Developer Relations · Digital Marketing · Communication · Presentations · Writing · Technical Training · Public Speaking · Software Project Management · Business Administration · JavaScript · Software Engineering · iOS development · Objective-C · Android · C++ · Open Source · Git · English
December 2015 – May 2016: Senior Mobile Engineer.
Tamedia is the biggest media conglomerate in Switzerland.
Member of the Core Engineering team, coordinating efforts and collaboration throughout the whole portfolio of mobile applications. Development and maintenance of iOS and Android mobile applications in Swift, Objective-C, Java, Kotlin, and JavaScript.
Skills: Software Development · Agile Methodologies · Scrum · OOP · Software Engineering · Mobile Applications · iOS development · Objective-C · Android · Linux · Git · German
Full professional experience (1997–2023): linkedin.com/in/akosma.