Personal Info

Objective

Education

Employment

1. 06/2008 to 07/2009
   LinkFeed.ru, Moscow, Russia; Category: SEO
   Ruby/Rails senior programmer
   • Core-level refactoring.
   • Migration from SVN to GIT.
   • Maintenance tasks, servers setup.
   • PostgreSQL-related tasks.
   • Implementation & improvement of Capistrano-based application deploying.
   • BDD/RSpec.
2. 02/2008 to 05/2008
   MyQuire.com, San Mateo, CA, United States; Category: Social Networks
   Ruby/Rails senior programmer
   • Core-level refactoring.
   • BDD/RSpec Evangelist.
   • Implementation of new major features.
   • Database architect.
3. 12/2007 to 02/2008
   Ruby/Rails freelancer
   • A number of small projects.
4. 02/2007 to 12/2008
   Railsware, Kiev, Ukraine; Category: Outsourcing
   Rails developer, tech.leader
   • Participated in 15+ RoR projects as a developer and/or tech.leader.
   • Examples: aroundme.ru, dom.ru, audiosouk.com, glamshare.com,
   • Like to use BDD and RSpec and always use it in projects I participate.
   • 99% of projects utilize Linux.
   • 90% of projects use MySQL 4.1+ as a primary database engine.
   • Capistrano / Linux Shell scripting for deployment and maintenance tasks.
5. 06/2005 to present
   LLC "Orbitel" (local ISP), Kurgan, Russian Federation.
   IT Director
   (started as Network Administrator & Programmer)
   1. Servers administration (Linux (Gentoo, RedHat), FreeBSD), serving 3000+ local clients.
   2. Development & support of corporate CMS/CRM with billing integration (RoR,php,apache,Oracle).
   3. Local clients web-based portal, integrating many advanced services & possibilities.
6. 06/2001 to 09/2006
   Freelance
   Programmer.
   1. PHP, mysql, apache, javascript.
      • WebMail system, focused on software developers.
      • WebShop (adaptation of OSCommerce).
      • WHOIS-data monitoring & reporting system.
      • Software for mass virtual hosting (hosted >10000 domains).
      • My Personal CMF to simplify development of common web projects & tasks.
   2. Remote administration of FreeBSD, Linux servers.
   3. C/C++/win32api/assembler programming for Windows-systems.
      • Spyware-removal software.
      • ChildFilter - system-level driver & user-level control application to prevent children access to explicit Internet content.
      • Internet-Explorer plugin.
   4. C/C++/shell programming for Unix/Linux systems.
      • Mostly client-server applications.
      • Shell-scripting for automation of maintenance tasks.
   5. Platform-independent C/C++ programming.
      • Distributed Platform-Independent Scalable Computing System.
7. 10/2002 to 03/2004
   TV Advertising and Broadcasting Agency "Courier" (A.K.A. "Region-45"), Kurgan.
   System Administrator.
   1. Responsible for maintenance of 3 FreeBSD 4.x servers, serving 50+ workstations.
      1. PHP+apache+mysql.
      2. DNS,proxy,pptp.
      3. Samba.
      4. Internet gateway, using 1 main + 2 spare channels.
   2. Created & supported Corporate Billing & Traffic Accounting system (php+mysql+apache+pptpd+mpd).

Special Skills

• Natural Languages
  1. Russian - native language.
  2. English (mostly technical) - perfect reading, good writing, a little speaking experience.
  3. Japanese - know a little.
• Computer Languages, technologies, etc.
  1. Ruby / Ruby on Rails - very good. I really love this language and framework :)
  2. PHP - was good in it. but don't use it anymore since I learned Ruby/Rails
  3. C/C++ - know very well, programmed for Windows, UNIX/Linux, Pocket PC.
  4. Assembler - good knowledge, mostly x86, but not only.
  5. SQL - know very good, mostly MySQL implementation, but also worked with Oracle, MS Access, SQLite.
  6. Reverse Engineering - have some experience.
• Have a blog about Ruby/Rails (in Russian language)
• My GitHub profile: http://github.com/zed-0xff
• I am very interested in modern Web-technologies. I read many technological blogs & news regularly, and I experiment with some newly obtained knowledge.
• I prefer Linux to Windows, and use Gentoo Linux at work and at home.