MARKOV Solutions
Programming (in Perl and C)

MARKOV Solutions is the free-lance company of Mark Overmeer (Curriculum Vitae).

My first contact with computers dates back to 1980 (before the first PC was borne), when I was member of a "Young Scientists" group (TCJA ). Some bright guys had built their own computer with an astounding 2 kB of memory.

I have programmed in about 30 programming languages since, amongst them various machine code and scripting languages. The languages Perl and C have my preference.

In Perl, I developed and maintain a large number of modules, as can be seen on my personal Perl pages. Often, I give talks on International Perl Conferences. Programming in C was my full time job during more than ten years.

If you want to benefit most from my abilities, hire me to

• program Perl or C, (or any other Unix based language),
• code auditing,
• rewrites of existing, unmaintainable code, or
• configuration of a software environment.

I solely develop on a Unix platform, although my products are usually platform independent. My preferences are with complex, technical problems, and less with database applications.

overview of experiences, incomplete list:

• Speaker on
  • multiple meetings of the NLUUG, the Unix User Group The Netherlands,
  • a few SANE conferences; the European (Unix) System administrators and Network Managers conferences.
  • many European Perl conferences (YAPCs) and German Perl Workshops
  Full details and slides are provided on my Perl Papers site.
• Maintainer and developer of Open Source software, mainly in Perl (overview).
• Trainer of The C Programming Language at AT Computing.
• Trainer of The Perl Programming Language at AT Computing.
• Trainer and course developer of Object Oriented Perl at AT Computing
• Course The Java Programming Language at AT Computing.
• Course Client-Server Programming at AT Computing.
• Course X-Window Programming at AT Computing.
• Course Yordon software development.
• MSc in Computer Science (Informatics) at the University of Nijmegen, with subjects like: compiler construction, databases, and real-time process design. The Master Thesis was titled "Real-Time Fault Tolerance in Multi-Controller systems".

• Development and maintenance of many CPAN (Perl) modules. List of own modules (2000-)
• Development of the whole infrastructure plus all software for an archive which contains tens of thousands of satellite or aerial photos of hundreds of megabytes each on disk. Access via a web-interface (2004-)
• Implementation of all Perl applications for the nl ccTLD maintained SIDN (2005-2006)
• Organizer of five "Dutch Perl Workshops" in 2004-2008.
• Teacher "Perl" at the School voor ICT in Arnhem, part of the school for intermediate vocational eduction Rijn-IJssel (2004)
• Development of a webmail back-end, which will serve millions of users in Germany on a large cluster (2004)

• Twice participant of the European qualifying round of ACMs International Collegiate Programming Contest ICPC (1983 and 1984)