Wael Karram - Curriculum Vitae
Professional Summary:
Free and Open Source Software Engineer and GNU/Linux
). Creator and Maintainer of Metronome, a musicians’ tool.
Experienced across software testing, packaging, patching, documentation and build systems -
including embedded exposure and programming in C/C++, Python, Java and Go. Backed by 15+
years operating self-hosted Linux infrastructure and services.
Technical Skills:
Programming: C/C++, Java, Python, (Bash, Zsh, Shell), C# , SQL, sed/awk, MATLAB.
Free and Open Source Software: Software Testing and Packaging, Patching (git + email), bug
reporting and tracking, user support, Wiki and Documentation, software distribution repositories,
release lifecycle management.
Systems and Firmware: GNU/Linux internals and build systems, Libreboot, kernel-adjacent
tooling, containers and VMs.
Hardware and Embedded: SPI/UART/I2C, Java/Android, system imaging and backups,
soldering and firmware modification, vacuum tubes and high voltage circuits.
Services: Web servers (nginx, lighttpd, apache), XMPP (prosody), MX/Mail (OpenSMTPd,
Dovecot, &c), Databases (Postgresql and SQlite), TLS and service security/hardening.
Markup & Data: (X)HTML, Markdown, *roff and
, JSON, TOML and CSS.
Core: Networking, UNIX/Linux, documentation, bug lifecycles, databases and containers.
AI/LLM: Claude (code), ChatGPT, DeepSeek (Harness), Ollama.
Languages: Native: English, Arabic and Hebrew. Basic: French, German and Portuguese.
Education:
BSc Computer Science & BA Entrepreneurship - Reichmann University, International:
•Notable: 99 in Operating Systems, 90+ in UI/UX , Data Science, Legal & Tax, and others.
•Venture Creation (Capstone, 94): member of the team which won the cross-vertical competition.
•Adept at startup and markets, proven experience and interaction with startups and investors.
School Diploma - Sisters of St. Joseph School, Nazareth.
Professonal Experience:
Free Software Creator, Maintainer and Contributor:
and
others, 2016 - Present.
•Active contributor to the
distribution (
Libreboot project as a creator, maintainer, contributor and user support.
•Created and maintain
, a tool for musicians - used by some schools in Europe.
•Perform software testing, packaging, patching, and manage the rollout patching and upgrade
lifecycle as a package maintainer, including my own
•Render user support (IRC, mail, forums), file and track bug reports, write and manage
documentation, and work with containers/build systems, hardware programming and
interfacing/debug.
• Active on
Self-Hosted Sysadmin and IRC NetOp:
•Sysadmin over the entire IT infrastructure of both projects, spanning dedicated hardware and
VPS systems - including communication and tooling (web, mail), and custom applications.
•Handle network management and wiring, routing (including custom systems - OpenWRT).
Additionally handling services such as nginx, lighttpd, apache, systemd, XMPP, redis,
postgresql, opensmtpd, dovecot and rspamd/spamassasin.
