Jor Bashllari

FOSS enthusiast, DevOps engineer, functional programmer. Student at Epitech.

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Skills

Systems Administration
Nix, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform
Application Programming
Haskell, C++/Qt, Android
Systems Programming
C, C++, Haskell, Python, Go, POSIX shell/Bash
Backend Web Development
Obelisk, Servant, Scotty, Conduit
Frontend Web Development
Reflex-FRP, Obelisk, React
Localization
Albanian, English, German

Experience

Collective68

Systems Administrator, infrastructure redesign 2020-02 - 2020-05

Tirana, Albania

Service provider for individuals and businesses focused solely on deploying and maintaining Free and/or open-source software utilizing FOSS in the entire business workflow.

  • Practiced recently learned skills related to container management and used Ansible for the first time in a business setting, focusing more on upgrading the infrastructure management model and developer experience over addition of newer solutions

  • Learned more on communication with people from different professional backgrounds and expressing myself more concisely even without technical jargon

  • Practiced managing large workloads and full-time school in a friendly and welcoming environment

  • Designed a test Kubernetes cluster to help integrate more services in the allocated hardware, and to facilitate backups, migrations and updates

Munic.IO

Intern, infra team Sep 2019 - Jan 2020

Ile-de-France, France

Car monitoring and metrics analysis solutions.

  • Researched and benchmarked available cluster managers, teaching myself Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure

  • Projected and developed a parallel update operator for manager-agnostic cluster maintenance, learning Go and specifics of procedural concurrent programs

  • Learned how to be productive and healthy in a fully remote environment, striking a balance between individual work sessions, communication and studies

Totel

Cofounder Dec 2017 - Jul 2018

Tirana, Albania

An e-commerce business funded only by high school sophomores. A fun little project before university rolled in, now going strong in a more organic form.

  • Developed and helped design the store website, teaching myself HTML/CSS and other frontend technologies, and learning about long-term project planning

  • Built payment handling system utilizing Snipcart, getting to know the Django framework and Semantic-UI

  • Managed deliveries, learning bit by bit how to manage professional relationships and aiding in delivery coordination

Volunteering

Open Labs Hackerspace

Member May 2016 - Present
  • Documented most of the infrastructure (including event-specific services)

  • Multiple talks and workshops, in conferences/gatherings (OSCAL, Linux Weekend) or standalone

  • Learning more each day about community building, communication and open source project management

E-mma Balkans

Event manager Oct 2018 - Present
  • Organized events for inclusion in tech; created from and working with Epitech students and high schoolers

Epitech Innovation Hub

Member Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
  • Organized and hosted workshops/hackathons for tools, technologies and paradigms useful to other Epitech students and more

Other Open Source contributions

  • Translations for the Ethereum project, Nextcloud and more

  • Contributions and cooperation in small projects (more at https://github.com/alter2000)

Projects

KOAK

JIT LLVM compiler frontend for Kaleidoscope (WIP)

  • Haskell

  • LLVM

  • Kaleidoscope

HAL

Scheme interpreter with proof-of-concept IO action and exception support

  • Haskell

  • Lisp

42sh

Reimplementation of tcsh with full functionality and limited use of the standard library

  • C

  • ncurses

Whanos

CD cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes using Jenkins to deploy Docker containers on said cloud

  • Kubernetes

  • Docker

  • Jenkins

malloc

C99 reimplementation of malloc|realloc|free, best in group

  • C

  • memory management

strace

C99 reimplementation of the strace system call tracing tool.

  • C

  • Linux

RType

C++ multiplayer spinoff of the single player game with the same title, using a client-server architecture and optimized ECS

  • C++

  • memory management

  • template metaprogramming

Education

Epitech Balkans (BE)

Oct 2018 - Present

Shkolla e mesme "Ernest Koliqi"

Sep 2015 - Jun 2018

Languages

Albanian — Native Speaker
English — Near Native
German — Fluent
French — Intermediate

Interests

Travel

  • mountain biking
  • camping
  • hiking
  • geocaching

Mathematics – theoretical

  • category theory
  • lambda calculus
  • type systems
  • PL theory

Writing

  • blogging
  • documentation
  • dip pens and fountain pens