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