Resume

Skills

• Linux (various flavors, RedHat, Debian, Arch, Slackware, etc), FreeBSD, Vyatta:
  • planning, installation, configuration
  • security and server hardening, troubleshooting, upgrades
  • package management, custom package building
  • automatization and centralized configuration management (puppet, ansible, saltstack)
• Virtualization (KVM, XEN, Docker, OpenVZ, VMware)
• Syslog
• Centralized log management (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• DNS (bind, maradns, pdns)
• HTTP (apache, nginx, lighttpd)
• SNMP (net-snmp)
• SMTP, POP, IMAP (exim, sendmail, dovecot)
• IPSEC, VPN, encryption (openswan, freeswan, openvpn, gre)
• Firewalls (iptables, ipfw, pf, etc)
• NFS, GlusterFS
• PHP, MySQL, Perl
• Networking (OSPF, BGP, Cisco switching/routing, Brocade, Juniper, Vyatta)
• Hosting control panels (CPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, Webmin)
• Server and resource monitoring (Nagios, Cacti, CollectD, graphite, diamond, MRTG, RRDTool, RTG)
• Remote OS installation (PXE, BOOTP, RedHat kickstart)
• Load balancing (Alteon, Radware, F5, haproxy, nginx)
• High availability (haproxy, nginx, heartbeat, wackamole)
• Scripting (bash, python, SQL, awk, some perl, some php)
• Some security experience (patch management, HIDS, some insight into PCI)
• Telecommunications:
  • GeoProbe (configuration, deployment, maintenance and troubleshooting)
• Datacenter grade technologies:
  • NAS/SAN systems: mainly EMC Isilon
  • DELL DRACs
  • DELL/Avocent IPKVMs
  • DELL BladeCases
  • HP ILO

• Older stuff (not touched in the last few years):

  • VOIP: Asterisk, Trixbox, FreePBX, Openser
  • Shared hosting systems: CPanel/WHM, DirectAdmin, Plesk (installation, configuration, customization, troubleshooting)

• Spoken languages

  • Romanian: native
  • English: excellent
  • Russian: good
  • French: basics

Employment History, Education, etc:

Available in my complete resume. Provided upon request.

Objectives

• Automating the hell out of it. Continuous learning of new technologies.

Interests

• System/Network administration
• Distributed monitoring systems
• Clustering and high-availability systems
• Load Balancing
• VOIP
• Computer networks
• Data protection and security
• Network communication protocols
• Electronics
• Mechanics
• DBMSs
• Distributed computing
• Guitar playing and sound processing
• Photography and digital image processing