Steps and Skills:

• ModSecurity user, developer of the whitelist configuration editor Remo.
• Apache engineer with a certain interest in mod_rewrite.
• Experience in PHP, Perl and Ruby development.
• Publications on database architecture in a scholarly setting, articles in Sysadmin Magazine and the German Linux Magazin.
• 2nd level LPI certified (LPIC-2).
• Christian Folini speaks German, English and French; all three fluently.

Recent Projects:

• Remo - the rule editor for modsecurity, an apache security module.
• Design and build the infrastructure for a gnu/linux desktop environment with several hundred clients, including package server, update mechanisms and configuration management.
• Integrate several secured extranet applications into a corporate user management running Microsoft Active Directory.

Hobbies and Interests:

• Medieval Reenactment with the Company of Saynt George
• Playing the Japanese board game "GO"

Links:

• pgp key
• personal homepage with full list of publications

"I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues."
-- Tim Berners-Lee