Curriculum Vitae
Peter Korsgaard
Personal Information

Address:	Twee Molenstraat 21, B-8550 Zwevegem	
Phone:	+32 478452108	
Email:	peter@korsgaard.com	
Homepage:	http://peter.korsgaard.com	
Date of birth:	August 2nd, 1978	
Nationality:	Danish	
Marital status:	Married	

Objective

To extend my skills and develop new ones in an active and challenging environment, while working in a team of like-minded people creating innovative new products.	

Education

09/1997 - 06/2002	Master of Science in Engineering, Informatics	
	Masters degree with specialization in Computer Vision and Graphics at	
	Aalborg University, Denmark.	
	Thesis entitled “Handling Occlusions in Augmented Reality” prepared at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Final exam at Aalborg University, Denmark.	
	Grade: 9.6 (to 13)	
08/1994 - 06/1997	Technical College	
	Higher Technical Examination in electronics at Aalborg Technical College, Denmark.	
	Grade: 9.5 (to 13)	
08/1985 - 06/1994	Primary School	
	1st to 9th grade at Gandrup Primary School, Denmark.	

Work Experience

04/2008 -	Technical Manager Software	
	Responsible for long term technical strategy for embedded software development within Defense group. Maintainer of bootloader, Linux kernel and build system for products. Alignment and collaboration across divisions and sites. http://www.barco.com	
09/2002 - 04/2008	Embedded Software Development	
	Development of embedded control software for rugged display solutions at Barco N.V. Software initially written in C and assembly using no OS (on Philips XA). Led move to C++ based platform on eCos and later on to embedded Linux. Administration of Linux based development servers. http://www.barco.com	
12/1999 - 10/2001	Software Development	
	Development and maintenance of a web-based portal system at ByNet Denmark K/S. Developed using Apache / MySQL / Oracle / Perl / PHP / Qmail and deployed on 8 Linux servers. http://www.bynet.dk	
02/1998 - 12/1999	Home Office Sales Assistant	
	Sale of consumer computer equipment at Super Radio A/S (now ELGiganten	
	Denmark A/S). http://www.elgiganten.dk	
06/1997 - 09/1997	Piccolo	
	Piccolo at hotel Royal Court Apartments in London, Britain.	

Other Experience

01/2009 - Present	Buildroot	
	Maintainer of Buildroot, an embedded Linux build system focused on small to medium sized systems. http://buildroot.net	
06/2004 - Present	Linux Kernel	
	Contributor of fixes and features to the mainline Linux kernel and related projects. Maintainer of several drivers (USB, ethernet, I2C, GPIO, serial, ..) http://kernel.org	
05/2005 - 02/2007	Nslu2-linux.org	
	Active in community around nslu2-linux.org, and author of Debian on NSLU2 howto (http://peter.korsgaard.com/articles/debian-nslue.php). http://nslu2-linux.org	
02/2002 - 11/2003	Handhelds.org	
	Active in community around the HP-sponsored handhelds.org. Author of the	
	IpkgFind search engine (http://ipkgfind.handhelds.org) and several small utilities for Linux PDAs. http://handhelds.org	
04/2001 - 08/2006	DotSRC	
	Staff member at dotsrc.org (was SunSITE.dk). Member of CVS team and IRC team. http://dotsrc.org	

Skills

Languages:	Danish (native), English (fluent), Dutch (fluent), German (fair)	
Development:	Assembler (ARM, Motorola 68k, x86, XA, PPC), C, C++, HTML, Java, Javascript, Lua, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Shell, SQL, TCL, XML.	
Hardware:	Ethernet, Flash, IC, SPI, USB.	
Toolkits:	Boost, GTK, OpenCV, OpenGL, QT, SDL, STL, VTK.	
Networking:	TCP/IP (v4/v6), Ethernet, NAT, Iptables.	
Systems:	eCos, Linux (embedded, desktop and server), Windows.	
Administration:	Apache, GIT, MySQL, OpenSSH, Samba, Subversion.	

Personal Interests

Travelling:	Exploring nature and culture around the world.	
Programming:	Developing real-time graphical effects, Open source, Low level programming, Linux on consumer products	
Reading:	Science Fiction, Fantasy, Computer Graphics.	

References

Kurt Cornelis, Ph.D.		
Supervisor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Telephone:	+32 16321881	
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10	Email:	kcornelis@esat.kuleuven.ac.be	
3001 Heverlee		
Belgium		
Claus B. Madsen, Assoc. Prof.		
Supervisor, Aalborg University	Telephone:	+45 96358788	
Niels Jernes Vej 14, Building 3	Email:	cbm@cvmt.auc.dk	
9220 Aalborg East		
Denmark		
Keld Arenholt Christensen		
Manager, ByNet Denmark K/S	Telephone:	+45 28446405	
Nytorv 5b, 2nd floor	Email:	kac@bynet.dk	
9000 Aalborg