Resume Vlad S. Skvortsov Cell phone: +1 (650) 996-9103 Home phone: +1 (650) 969-2053 E-Mail: vss@73rus.com WWW: http://vss.73rus.com NIC Handle: VSS11-RIPN @ RIPN Objective ========= A key position in a small startup company to lead design and development of complex internet applications on UNIX platform. Experience ========== Over fourteen years experience encompassing all aspects of complex software systems engineering including: design, development, testing, integration, release engineering, performance analysis and tuning. I have been building systems from scratch (including design, implementation, setting up the engineering infrastructure and process, etc) as well as taking over large systems for ongoing development and maintenance. On the technical side my skill set includes: * solid knowledge of UNIX system and networking (BSD) APIs; * experience with a wide range of: * programming languages: C/C++, Python, Perl, Erlang, Haskell, Bourne shell, x86 assembly, PHP, Javascript, awk, OCaml, CLisp, Tcl, Pascal, Basic, Java, Rexx; * development tools: Yacc, Lex, the standard UNIX toolchain, CVS, Subversion, GNU autotools, SWIG, gprof, valgrind; * embedded and standalone database systems: PostgreSQL, MySQL, BerkeleyDB, SQLite; * markup, data representation and metadata languages: HTML, XML, ASN1, YAML, JSON. * network protocols: Ethernet, IPv4, SLIP, PPP, PPTP, RIP, OSPF, HTTP, DNS, FTP, SMTP, POP3, NNTP, TELNET; * operating systems: Unix (FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS), Windows, DOS, OS/2; * background in the telecommunication industry (starting with hands-on experience in network equipment installation and configuration through UNIX system administration of a medium size network operations center). Software engineering is my passion and so I have been always working on multiple personal closed- and open-source projects (two biggest are an enterprise search engine and a distributed issue tracking system - http://www.ditrack.org). I often provide technical leadership and mentor members of the teams I work with. My domain of interest includes: information retrieval, distributed and high-performance systems, statistics and mathematical modeling. Education ========= 1998 - 2002: BSCS, Ulyanovsk State Technical University, Russia. 2002 - 2004: MSCS, Ulyanovsk State Technical University, Russia. Work History ============ Yahoo!, Inc - Technical Yahoo, FlexForce (The Tiger Team) (Nov 2006 - present) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Position description: the Tiger Team is a group of senior software engineers acting as an internal consulting team. The group members get allocated to high-profile projects all across the company to work on architecture, design and implementation of backend/platform systems and components. Accomplishment highlights: * Enhanced a recommendation platform to support personalization. This included research tasks (such as model evaluation methodology development) as well as implementation of the backend logic. * Completed migration of a major Yahoo! property from PHP4 to PHP5. * Performed instumentation of an ad system middleware to hook up into the monitoring framework. Netli, Inc. - Senior Software Engineer (Dec 2004 - Nov 2006) [acquired by Akamai Technologies, Inc. in Mar 2007] ------------------------------------------------------------ Position description: a member of the core engineering team working on design, development and maintenance of the key system components, including custom HTTP proxy server, DNS server, network distance discovery machinery and others. Accomplishment highlights: * Redesigned and reimplemented major parts of distributed configuration system resulting in halving the memory footprint, improving the response time (2x) and availability (10x) of the system during centralized configuration updates. * Redesigned and reimplemented distributed billing system to signficantly improve throughput (10x improvement) and robustness. * Planned and performed the migration from CVS to Subversion. Ulyanovsk-GSM, JSC - Lead Information Security Engineer (Sep 2001 - Nov 2002) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Position description: the job duties included development and deployment of information security policies for the IT infrastructure of the company, design and implementation of custom middleware solutions, UNIX systems administration. Accomplishment highlights: * Implemented (partially through reverse engineering) an SMPP client library (used to communicate with a GSM SMS-Center appliance) to replace a vendor-supplied one. This resulted in 10x improvement in message throughput. * Developed middleware solutions to integrate an SMS-Center with internal and external content providers. * Set up and configured server side hardware and software for the company to be the first in the region to offer WAP service to GSM subscribers. * Set up and administered UNIX systems and edge network equipment providing Internet services (routing, filtering, email, web, etc). Ulyanovsk State Technical University Network Operations Center - System Administrator/Software Engineer (Oct 1998 - Nov 2004) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Position description: an engineer responsible for a wide variety of duties ranging from deployment, configuration and maintenance of network equipment and implementation of custom server-side internet/intranet applications through technical support. Accomplishment highlights: * Modified Postfix mail transfer agent to support virtual domains, mail boxes quoting, accounting and integrate with home-grown directory system. * Developed banner rotation system for the university Intranet. "Nachrichten" Publishing - Software Engineer (contractor) (Aug 1997 - Nov 1997) --------------------------------------------------------- Developed a software suite to compliment German language textbook. Implemented a sound device (Soundblaster) driver for MS-DOS. "Nadezhda" Real Estate Agency - Software Engineer (contractor) (Oct 1994 - May 1995) -------------------------------------------------------------- Implemented a database management system and user interface on MS-DOS for real estate listings. Awards ====== * "President's Award for Outstanding Student" award in 2000. * "Best reports and software products" at UlSTU student CS conferences in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. * 2nd place in UlSTU programming contest in 1999. * 1st place in Ulyanovsk region programming contest in 1998. * A degree in state programming contest in 1998. Personal information ==================== * Status: permanent resident (green card holder). * Languages: Russian, English. * Marital status: married, raising a son. * Hobbies: sports, guitar, hiking, cats. Meta ==== Up-to-date version of this resume is available at: http://vss.73rus.com/resume.txt $Id: resume.txt 2133 2009-01-08 20:47:13Z vss $