About me

Aaaargh, no picture please! Well, you can look, the one on the right here is safe for work. (In case you're wondering, on this picture I'm trying to attach a wire to a lamp because we needed light in our tent on the Lowlands camping.)

• Name: Wilmer van der Gaast
• Gender: Male
• Date of birth: 1983-Aug-06
• City: Dublin, Ireland (used to live in The Netherlands)
• Occupation: Site Reliability Engineering at Google

Besides the job, I like to spend some of my time on open source software like BitlBee. Obviously, with BitlBee as my main project, I also spend way too much time on (mostly Dutch) IRC channels on the OFTC network. My nickname is far from original (wilmer), but that's because I just don't see why I should hide myself behind a little nickname. (And because the nickname I once had, lintux, is just lame.)

See the music and films sections for more, if you're not bored yet.