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name:          Amin
lastname:      Kasrou Aouam
phone:         "+32456369230"
address:       "Ghent, Belgium"
email:         akasroua@disroot.org
gitlab:        akasroua
linkedin:      akasroua
lang:          en

about:         |
  Computer Engineer interested in Data Science, Algorithmics, UNIX-based operating systems and Infrastructure as Code

experience:
- company: Venthône
  years:
    start: "October 2023"
    end: "July 2025"
  location: Brussels (Belgium)
  position: Application Support Agent
  description:
    - "Level 2 support agent interfacing with relational databases via handcrafted SQL queries"
    - "Investigation and resolution of issues concerning three applications related to payments for the European Comission (DIGIT)"
    - "Effective communication with Level 1 Support and the development teams to resolve disruptions"
    - "Creation of technical documentation, ITIL procedures and PL/SQL automation scripts"
- company: COACE
  years:
    start: "January 2021"
    end: "July 2021"
  location: Ceuta (Spain)
  position: System administrator (Freelance)
  description:
    - "IT support and management of multiple Windows workstations"
    - "Migration from a completely undocumented Ubuntu/Windows server to NixOS"
    - "Deployment of a VPN, a cloud, DNS server and an automated backup solution"
- company: Odyfo
  years:
    start: "April 2020"
    end: "September 2021"
  location: Remote (Spain)
  position: IT consultant (Freelance)
  description:
    - "Migrations of the MySQL database, to ensure consistency and good performance"
    - "Rewrite of the CRUD REST API to FastApi (Python)"
    - "Administration of multiple EC2 instances in AWS"

education:
- years:
    start: 2021
    end: 2023
  degree:      Master
  focus:       Bioinformatics (Engineering)
  institution:  "Universiteit Gent"

- years:
    start: 2017
    end: 2021
  degree:      Bachelor
  focus:       Computer Engineering
  institution:  "Universidad de Granada"

certifications:
- name: TOEFL 
  score: C1 (106/120)

- name: ITIL v4
  score: 37/40

skills:
- category: Programming languages
  items:
    - Python
    - R
    - C++
    - Java
    - PHP
    - Shell scripting
    - PL/SQL
- category: DevOps
  items:
    - Git
    - Docker
    - Prometheus
    - Grafana
    - JIRA
    - Service Now
- category: Tools
  items:
    - SQL
    - \LaTeX
    - Nix
    - ZFS
    - Prometheus
    - Grafana
- category: Platforms
  items:
    - Linux
    - FreeBSD
    - DragonFlyBSD
    - NixOS
    - Arduino
    - Android

projects:
- "Telegram bot to notify students of COVID-19 cases (Python)"
- "Declarative configuration of a home server and workstation (Nix)"
- "Open source contributions to NixOS (Nix)"
- "Temperature and humidity monitoring with MQTT (Arduino)"

languages:
- language: English
  proficiency: C1 level

- language: Spanish
  proficiency: Native

- language: French
  proficiency: Native
---