Gleb A Smirnoff
Phone: +7 910 417 9446
E-mail: glebius@FreeBSD.org

SKILLS SUMMARY

Strong knowledge of FreeBSD operating system, its internals both in kernel
and in userland. Experience in production utilizing, debugging and
implementation of networking protocols of different levels.

SKILLS DETAILS

Developer:
- Strong knowledge of FreeBSD operating system design.
- Strong knowledge of Unix libraries, IPC and system calls.
- Moderate knowledge of development tools and VCS.
- Experience in Perl 5, lex/yacc, shell programming.

Sysadmin/NOC:
- Strong knowledge of extensive set of the TCP/IP based technologies
  and network protocols interiors up to the packet and frame fields.
- +8 years of building & maintaining medium size networks.
- +10 years of FreeBSD system administration in small and large scale
  installations.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Nov 2004 - now:	Rambler Internet Holding, http://www.rambler.ru
Senior system administrator, head of system infrastructure team,
eventually FreeBSD hacker. Full time.
	Tasks:
	+ Day to day maintaining of Rambler's projects servers:
	  DNS, mail, load balancers, etc.
	+ FreeBSD problem solving and consulting, including, but
	  not limited to:
		- fixing problems in TCP/IP stack.
		- fixing problems in network device drivers.
		- tuning the system for better performance.

Feb 2004 - Aug 2004: Oilspace, Inc., http://www.oilspace.com
System administrator. Full time.
	Tasks:
	+ Day to day running a business critical big co-location site:
	  dozens of Linuxes, some PIX, Cisco Catalyst switches, F5 BIG-IP
	  load balancers.
	+ perl, shell scripting.
	+ C coding.

Jul 2003 - Feb 2004: ISP Best Telecom, http://www.bestcom.ru
Senior network administrator. Full time.
	Projects:
	+ Established LIR, got PA address block and AS. Performed 
	  renumbering and total redesign of large network.
	+ Set up BGP/OSPF redundant routing infrastructure based on
	  FreeBSD routers.
	+ Set up a scalable PPPoE access server solution for home
	  networks based on FreeBSD.
	+ Set up multidomain POP3/IMAP mail service with antispam/antivirus
	  features.
	+ Wrote a custom accounting/billing suite for internet and
	  telephony services.
	+ Organized and headed customer support team. Set up trouble ticketing
	  and monitoring software and scripts.
	+ Day to day NOC tasks.

Sep 2001 - Sep 2002: ISP RiNet, http://www.rinet.ru
Techsupport and junior system administrator. Full time, nightly.
	Projects:
	+ Night tech support and problem responce.
	+ perl and shell scripting.

PERSONAL PROJECTS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS:

+ I am FreeBSD developer and committer since summer 2004.
  My FreeBSD activity includes, but not limited to:

	- TCP/IP stack
	- netgraph framework
	- network device drivers
	- maintaining several ports, mostly related to
	  OpenStreetMap and open geospatial software

  I was maintainer of netgraph(4) framework, OpenBSD's carp(4)
  protocol in FreeBSD, and author of ng_netflow(4) netgraph node
  and several simplier netgraph nodes.

  You can see my commit stats here:
	http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/commits.html
  , and problem reports, which I've fixed:
	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?state=closed&responsible=glebius

+ I am active mapper in OpenStreetMap project. However, my code
  submissions to the project are quite limited, yet.

+ Once started a russian Unix FAQ, http://www.unixfaq.ru. Now the site
  maintained by other people.

+ Security analysis of Netup UTM, once a popular (in Russia) billing solution,
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/338431

EDUCATION

University education: Moscow State University, Chemistry department, 1998 - 2003

Brainbench Awards (yr. 2000):
  + Master TCP/IP Administrator
  + Unix administrator

* Languages

+ Written and spoken English.
+ Native Russian.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

+ Do not smoke.
+ Married, one child.