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Most hosting companies can buy the latest and greatest hardware. And we all have the same opportunities to host at great data centers.
So what makes one company different from any other? We (honestly) think it is the staff that you deal with day-to-day. So at RimuHosting we strive to have a support team that is knowledgeable and passionate about Linux. And then we do all we can to empower these people to help make our customers' lives just a little bit easier.
This page lists some of the people you may find yourself interacting with at RimuHosting.
Peter founded RimuHosting in 2002. He helps out with support; does the monthly billing; flexes his Java muscles every now and then by coding on the RimuHosting web site; and works hard to make sure that RimuHosting always has the best and brightest staff along with great servers sitting in reliable data centers.
Peter plays squash a few times a week and tennis whenever he can get a game (he is pretty sure Pablo would thrash him if they were to ever have a game together). He reads a lot (mostly sci-fi, Ian M. Banks being a favorite); listens
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music. Like most staunch New Zealanders he is an avid arm-chair rugby devotee (following the Waikato teams and, of course, the All Blacks). Peter is married to Anne-Marie and has three young boys.
Carl is one of our key support guys. He joined RimuHosting in 2004 while finishing his BSc (Comp. Sci.) degree at the University of Waikato. He works out of the RimuHosting Cambridge office with Peter, John and Ivan. And currently lives in Hamilton City with his wife.
He started with Linux back in '97 with the release of Slackware 3.2. Since then he has been using Linux on the desktop and server. Currently favors Debian on the server and Ubuntu on the desktop.
He enjoys gaming, music (Offspring, Shihad), movies and reading. Bruce Campbell is his favorite actor, who also happened to star in one of his favorite movies (Army of Darkness) and wrote one of his favorite books (If Chins Could Kill).
David has been doing support work at RimuHosting since 2006. His interest in Linux dates back to 1997 when he installed Slackware at home to avoid trips to the CS Unix lab across campus. When he's not handling support tickets, David works as a freelance software developer - usually dabbling in Java (his favorite), Ruby on Rails or PHP.
In his free time, you can find him reading about computer security, playing with his 3 cats or kicking back with one of his (current) favorite shows: Numb3rs, Heroes, 24 or Lost. He is originally from Indiana, but you're not likely to find him there these days as he's currently living in Central Asia.
John has been working full-time in our Cambridge offices since March 2007. John came to New Zealand for the first time in December of 2005, he left Chicago the day before his birthday, flew over the dateline, and arrived back on land in Auckland the day after his birthday. He thinks it's a pretty good excuse to deduct one year from his age when people ask. After one and a half more Chicago winters, the birth of twin kiwi nephews, and the fact that New Zealand is the most beautiful place he has ever seen, he decided to immigrate here.
John has been a Linux addict starting from the day he walked into the Electric Shadow Internet Cafe, in Valparaiso In, on a sunny day in 1996, and asked a man named Steve how the Internet worked. Steve promptly gave John a telnet login to a Red Hat 5 server and said, "Learn about the Apache web server". Linux could be described as an underdog operating system, and growing up a Chicago Cubs fan has taught John a lot about being an underdog. You just gotta believe and wait till next year, at least for Linux things do get better.
Abdallah has been working for RimuHosting since June 2007. He started using Linux back in 1996, when he was asked to test Apache on RedHat (4.0 - when the RedHat guys were still asking for donations!) for an ISP in Beirut, Lebanon. And he was addicted ever since. He's currently using Ubuntu, Debian, and Mandriva at home and work. And testing some Gentoo (and derivatives) for upcoming setups.
Abdallah would read almost any book he could find, but his favorite subjects are mystery novels and religious/historical studies. He watches Naruto anime and '24' almost exclusively. And he would like to play ping-pong (table tennis) more often.
Sim lives with his wife in Antipolo City, Philippines. He has been doing support for Rimu since the middle of 2007. He earned a graduate degree in Physics from the University of Philippines, where he first started with linux in 1994.
For a long time, he worked at a mobile applications company, where he developed systems software. He usually did it in C++, but sometimes also in Java, Objective C and Ruby.
He is currently working on a few personal software projects. He is also an amateur chef and a certified B-Movie buff. His favorite genres are prison movies, zombie flicks, cannibal films and mutated monster movies.
Ivan started working for RimuHosting in December 2007 at the Cambridge offices doing support work and java development. He completed a computer science degree at the University of Waikato in 2007.
In 2004 Ivan started using Linux as more than just a hobby operating system. Almost all his Uni assignments have been done in Linux, even if they were supposed to have been done in Microsoft Visual Studio.
In his spare time he likes to develop programs in C and Python. One day he would like to finish learning Japanese.
Fernando is originally from Cadiz, a coastal city at the Southernmost tip of Spain. He has a BS degree in physics (something to do with atomic and nuclear stuff, he tells us). In 1999 he went to the US as a guest researcher at NIST and first started working with Linux. While in the US he picked up a Master's degree in computer science. In 2005 he moved his family to Canada and is currently living in Waterloo, Ontario.
Fernando is a geeky dad of two. When he is not at his computer, he likes reading and watching movies. Sci-fi is a favorite, but he does not like Star Trek. He has a mountain bike and an electric guitar and he likes to pretend he uses them.
Pablo has been doing support work at RimuHosting since mid-2006. Pablo has been working with Linux since 1999. Most of time he spends developing software both in the user space and kernel level. His favorite stuff IT-related are security, coding and software designing.
Pablo also works as a Senior Software Engineer in the Corporate Research Center of the Virginia Tech University. He is originally from Temperley, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Pablo loves playing tennis. He once had professional aspirations having risen as high as 62nd in the national Argentinean rankings. But got a knee injury (which still bothers him from time to time) so can now only play occasionally. Pablo enjoys entrepreneurship, reading, music and playing pool. Music-wise he likes a lot of different genres, from Green Day to Fool's Garden and The Beatles (used to be crazy about them), and of course Soundgarden and their awesome Black Hole Sun. Pablo's most recent hobby is day-trading the FOREX (Foreign Exchange) currency market.
Brandon currently lives in Annapolis, MD and has worked with various Linux distros over the past 6 years. He works full time as PHP developer and has has released several small open-source projects written in Perl and PHP.
Brandon has two young kids who keep him busy and also enjoys distance running in his spare time (Someday soon he'll complete his first marathon)
Yves has been working at Rimuhosting as sysadmin since 2007. He graduated in International Relations at the Universidade de Brasilia (UnB) in 2003, but works on IT since then as a Linux and Windows administrator.
Yves considers documentation the most important thing about his profession and you'll probably see him repeatedly explaining why Debian makes a sysadmin life so easy and how powerful Postfix can be. He also talks a lot about how much he adores the Unix way of solving problems.
When he is not working, Yves may be reading a good book from Carl Sagan, watching Shichinin no Samurai or Dr. Strangelove-like movies, hanging out with his friends or writing python code at his home, in Brasilia, Brasil. Yves keeps his FOSS projects and a blog at his site, cetico.org
Elton started fiddling Linux back in 1996 in a University laboratory, he installed slackware from a pile of floppy disk in an intel box, was amazed by the technology and after which he worked on a company in a R&D Dept. for Linux solutions, became a SysAdmin in an ISP and lately a Linux DBA. He also do some scripting and programming in java,python and hopefully Ruby on Rails.
At free time he watch TV a lot, play guitar, smash tennis and fix cars for fun.
Adrian has been with RimuHosting since mid 2007. He is a Linux freak, Debian specially, trying to run his favorite OS on almost any 'smart' devices he can get his hands on.
He does a bit of freelance web development, working together with two of his best friends as a PHP Web developer. While not working or sleeping, he is finishing his computer science bachelor degree at Babes-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He also enjoys spending quality time with his future wife and he loves to cook.
Alex joined RimuHosting in June 2007. He is a sysadmin by day and a sysadmin by night. Alex loves Debian. Originally from Siberia, he now lives in Philadelphia.
Jamon first started with Corel Linux on his first computer in 1999 (and broke it pretty quickly). Jamon reckons that "Debian is, of course, the best distro going." He is currently completing the Master of Information Studies program at the University of Toronto and does part time support for RimuHosting.
Some of Jamon's current projects include jamonation.com and linuxcaffe.ca, a site that he maintains for the local coffee shop in Toronto (which runs entirely on Linux). He enjoys reading Zizek and Foucault as well as watching Spaghetti Westerns and Michelangelo Antonioni films.
Paolo does part-time support for Rimuhosting. During the day he is a senior software engineer for a large social-networking site, at night-time he is a doting husband and father to two very cute twin boys. He is a long-time FOSS advocate and member of the Philippine Linux Users' Group.
In his spare time, Paolo frequents the movies together with his wife, just plays with his sons, or reads books on wide range of topics. He's an avid/rabid anime fan, a collector of model kits, and seasoned biker.
Ghassan got his Masters in Telecommunications and IT from Athens Information Technology in 2006. He was introduced to Linux in college and worked in both Linux and Windows environments.
In his free time, he likes to play Chinese checkers, go to the cinemas, follow up with the latest gizmos and BBQing.
Glenn started working for RimuHosting in February 2008 at the Cambridge offices doing support work. He completed a computer science degree at the Waikato Polytech in 2007.
He has been using Linux since late 2000, and distros of choice have included Gentoo and Ubuntu.
In his spare time he enjoys online gaming and is also working on the odd Java project.
Anne-Marie is our office administrator and legal-eagle (being a lawyer by training). She is the only non-geek at RimuHosting. She takes care of paying the wages for all the RimuHosting 'geeks' and is a director of Objexcel Ltd., the RimuHosting holding company.
