Alexander Meindl
What I offer you
- Technical project management
- (Drupal) Performance optimization
- Drupal Coaching
- Drupal SEO
- Project process optimization (Deployment, Infrastructure)
My interests
- Drupal
- Cloud Computing / EC2
- Social Networking Solutions
- Scrum
- Virtualization: VMware, OpenVZ
- Linux
- PHP and MySQL
- Performance optimization
- SEO
- Affiliate
- Continuous Integration
- Fitness / Bodybuilding
Social activities
Former CORE member of the GLUG Bamberg / Forchheim.
Manager of the "Münchner Community-Treffen". A monthly "Stammtisch"-Meeting for community manager, online editors and community webmaster in Munich.
Manager of the "Fitness and Bodybuilding Stammtisch München". A regular "Stammtisch"-Meeting for hobby athletes from munich and surrounding.
Process
I've learned a lot of things about web development processes not only with Drupal. My job is to take what I have learned and roll it back into the process, creating professional projects.
Here are some keywords of technologies, which I worked with:
PHP, XHTML, XML, SOAP, REST, DOMXML, WSDL, Encryption, mhash, mcrypt, MySQL, DB Cluster, DB Replication, memcache, APC, eAccelerator, ionCube, Linux, bash, NSIS, PostgreSQL, Distributed Systems, Deployment, UML, OOP, Zend Framework, Solr, Suhosin, PEAR, jpgraph, Smarty, Apache, mod_rewrite, Localication, i18n, PO, Global development and delivery (GDD)
Search engine optimization for Drupal
- Analysis of the current site state
- On-Page Optimization
Drupal: By using special modules and the right settings you can reach a lot. - Off-Page Optimization
squatlabs informs you about every possibility. There are always new trends and we show you how to use them right. - Monitoring
Performance
Stress Tests
squatlabs performs load and stress testings of Drupal projects.
Load tests
The load test is usually conducted to understand the behavior of the application under a specific expected load.
Stress tests
And the stress testing is normally used to break the application.
The significant test reports afterwards will help you to perform a system optimization.
Optimization
Project optimization by using the analysed solutions
- Web and Database Cluster
- Caching Mechanism
- Functionality Outsourcing
- System optimization
Deployment
- Setup of a deployment concept
- Localisation watch (e.g. Gettext (PO-files))
- Script setup for you final files
- Hash checksums for file validation
- Correct database dumps (UTF8, Latin1)
- Inkremential (Patch) or Full-Updates
- Check up of your system requirements
- Automated updates
- Support with the system responsitility (role management)
- Minimisation of the offline time period during updates

