Dear Sir, dear Madam,
my name is Wolfgang Backhaus, I am a system administrator and software developer from Germany, having worked in the telecommunications industry for more than 15 years.
I gained comprehensive experience in shell script development (not only bash, but ksh and csh as well) during the last 20 years. Most of the work I have done in this area was related to my system administrator job in the OSS area of one of Germany's mobile network operators (E-Plus, nowadays Telefonica). The tasks comprised file transfer (surveillance), system monitoring, patch deployment, text file parsing, and many others.
I worked with all major flavors of the UNIX operating system family (HP-UX, AIX, DEC/Compaq, SunOS) and several Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, Slackware). For several client projects I run and administrate a Debian 8 based VPS.
I place high demands on myself and on the systems with which I work, and one of my goals is to deliver high-quality products.
It would give me great pleasure if You would give the award to me.
Best regards
Wolfgang Backhaus