Bartłomiej (Bartek) Rutkowski - System Administrator

The journey begins somewhere around 1990, when the first personal computers were being sold in Poland. One of his friends owned an Atari 65XE that gathered almost every single kid around the neighborhood.  Some time later he got his very own Commodore 64 with mono colored Zenith monitor and Datasette recorder. Being addicted to the roots he quickly saved every penny he could to get brand new 1541-II 5.25" disc drive. Everything starts moving faster.

Amiga 600 was the first computer he bought, and with it rushed in a world of 16-bit wonders. This gave way to an Amiga 1200 and a powerful two CPU Blizzard PPC card. Suddenly gates to other dimensions were opened after the trials and tribulations of self-discovery, he emerged with the status of a BSD Unix geek, fluent and strong.

When he went to the university he met more people like him, hiding in deep dungeons of copper wires with flashing terminals - white letters on black screens. Luckily for him they took him under their wing, and his knowledge grew.  Upon graduation he was already cooperating and working at Multimedia Communication Laboratory with Professor Andrzej Kocikowski, who gave him the mission of moving from an unstable hybrid Windows and Linux environment to something more reliable. This migration project exists today in its completed form, and the mark of his passing is present in the applications he helped port to FreeBSD.

After graduation he moved to different locations to see the world and learn how people work. He worked with R2S Marketing Agency, building their IT infrastructure in Dublin, and he spent two years in the Lerkins Group hosting company, building their datacenter from 30 to 100 servers.  During that time he progressed from Junior System Administrator to IT Teamleader and became a certified IBM AIX Administrator. He loves Python and Django and in addition to BSD also finds Solaris quite pleasing.