Address: Cary, NC, USA
e-mail: osa@FreeBSD.org
Head of Team of System Engineers or System Administrators, Senior UNIX System Administrator or a Senior Network Engineer position within a progressive organization where an advanced knowledge of various UNIX systems, network equipment, software development would be needed.
Highly adaptive and experienced UNIX system administrator with fundamental and practice understanding network technologies. Have solid knowledges about resolving UNIX and network troubleshooting. Team leader, has an experience and a proven ability to manage staff.
FreeBSD, AIX, SunOS, Linux, Windows, IOS
bourne shell, C, javascript, awk, sed, perl, pike, TeX/LaTeX, some experience with Tcl/Tk, SQL, PHP
cvs/rcs/svn/git, gdb, make
HTML, some experience with SGML and XML
Oracle, Informix, Interbase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Progress
As IT application owner and product manager manage applications infrastructure in order to improve stability and reliability. Design and install in production fail-tolerance infrastructure in order to improve stability and projects uptime.
New staff interviewing.
Capacity planning, vendors and resellers interactions.
As IT application owner and product manager manage applications infrastructure in order to improve stability and reliability. Design and install in production fail-tolerance infrastructure in order to improve stability and projects uptime.
New staff interviewing.
Capacity planning, vendors and resellers interactions.
01.2011-06.2012
Position:
Head of The Network and Services Development Department, report to CIO.
Lead a system administrators and engineers teams, planning, prioritization, scheduling, personnel promotions, interviews, crisis management.
* Successfully migration to new billing system;
* Successfully change subscriber services scheme to ISG;
* IP addresses management;
* Successfully migration from PPTP to IP TAL;
* Successfully migration from one Autonomous System to another.
The team manages an enterprise level 24x7 system which provides all sorts of ISP services. The servers park consists of x86 based servers running FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, and Xen and ESXi virtual machines. The network hardware - Cisco SCE, ASR, 72xx, 65xx.
Assorted tasks including contracts handling, pre-buying servers and parts, capacity planning and hardware and software upgrade, operation systems support, admin staff trainings. Vendors and partners interaction.
11.2009-12.2010
Position:
Head of The Network and Services Development Department, report to CTO.
Lead a system administrators and engineers teams, planning, prioritization, scheduling, personnel promotions, interviews, crisis management.
The team manages an enterprise level 24x7 system which provides all sorts of ISP services. The servers park consists of x86 based servers running FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, and Xen and ESXi virtual machines. The network hardware - Cisco SCE, ASR, 72xx, 65xx.
Assorted tasks including contracts handling, pre-buying servers and parts, capacity planning and hardware and software upgrade, operation systems support, admin staff trainings. Vendors and partners interaction.
04.2004-08.2009
Position:
Internet Department, System Engineer
Tasks: administrate ISP's FreeBSD and Linux servers, mail relays, DNS servers with more than one thousand zones, NNTP server, backup and restoring, software improving, security audit, writing documentation, network troubleshooting, customers interaction, capacity planning, non-trivial network problems solving, pre-sale technical consulting.
01.1998-04.2004
Position:
System Administrator (hostmaster, postmaster and webmaster)
List of responsibilites:
Administrated:
Was responsible for instalation, configuration and operation of:
Also was involved in support of LAN of over 300 WindowsNT/2000 workstations and several network printers.
12.1996-12.1997
Position:
System Administrator
List of responsibilites:
Administrated local area network with Novell Netware server and WindowsNT/95
workstations.
Administrated AIX 4.2 and FreeBSD 3.0 servers.
Created & hosted mail- and web- servers.
Developed pages for corporate web site.
Administrated Informix SQL-server and application.
Was responsible for technical and users support.
Administrated Local Area Network with Novell Netware server, WindowsNT/95
workstations and FreeBSD 2.X mail-server.
Developed pages for corporate web site.
Was responsible for technical and users support.
1998
IBM East Europe/Asia
Major: AIX 4.3 Advanced Administration
Certification: AIX 4.3 Administrator
1996
Techno Center Plus (ISP) Learning Center (BSDI official distributor in ex-USSR)
Major: BSD-Unix System Administration
Certification: Unix System Administrator
Microinform Learning Center
Major: 520 Novell Netware 4 Administration
Certification: Certified Novell Netware 4 Administrator - CNA
1990-1995
Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute
Computer Science and Economics Faculty
Engineering Cybernatics Department
Major: Computer Science
I have the following certificates from Brainbench (aka Techmetrics), since 1999-2000 when Brainbench service was free.
Sergey A. Osokin, FreeBSD+nginx.
10th European BSD Conference, October 6-9th, 2011, Maarssen, The Netherlands
Sergey A. Osokin, FreeBSD+nginx.
7th Asian BSD Conference, March 22-25th, 2012, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan
Presentation available here (PDF).
BSD in .ru and another (russian)
Effective work with FreeBSD ports system (russian)
Russian CVSup FAQ
The russian translation of Official CVSup FAQ
Director of Russian FreeBSD Users Association
(postmaster, webmaster, hostmaster)
Author of several ports some applications for FreeBSD, please see Ports collection for FreeBSD.
Ports committer for FreeBSD, you can find my name at
FreeBSD Developers list.
I am concentrating on Problem Reports database, using CVS, subversion and perforce for developing.
Made and committed a lot of fixes (stability, improvements) for FreeBSD ports tree.
I'm author of ngx_http_redis, the nginx module for redis.
Birth Year: 1972
Marital Status: Married, have a daughter
Citizenship: Russian Federation
Gender: Male
Health: Good, non smoking
Languages: Russian native; English good
Interests: Alternative (Indie) Music; Internet, bicycling, laptop with FreeBSD