LINUX ADMINISTRATOR RESUME

Name: Yaroslav Klyukin

Email: slava@klyukin.com
WEB: http://resume.klyukin.com/
Cellular phone/voice mail: (203)219-9029
ICQ: 1045670
AIM: infiniteparticle
MSN: infiniteparticle@hotmail.com
Location: Connecticut
Available immediately as a full-time employee.

Objective
Use my skills and knowledge of fault tolerant solutions for daily monitoring and
maintenance of mission critical production infrastructure.

Summary
College degree and over 7 years of progressive IT experience. Competent in
deploying secure remote administration, including network and firewall. Self-starter
attitude. 24/7 on-call availability and mobility. Keep abreast of current technology.
Strong inter-personal skills and technical acumen. Focus on details. Work well under
pressure either with minimal supervision or in a team. Key skills include Linux
performance tuning, such as patching and building optimized kernel, GNU, open
source software under Linux or FreeBSD, such as KDE, Mozilla, XFree86 for Intel,
Power PC or Alpha platforms, installation and support of clustered Apache web
servers, mail, FTP and database servers of various flavors, DNS, DHCP. Windows to
Linux interoperability and migration.

Experience
[12/2004 – present] Senior operational monitoring engineer
"Adeptra" - phone or FAX notifications, such as fraud detection, collection, marketing
and other.
As a senior member of a newly-formed monitoring team participated in setup of
monitoring software and recruiting other members. Developed a 24/7 rota and wrote
a script to display it. Solely installed, configured and supported customer facing open
source ticketing system to migrate from the outsourced one, as well as wrote patches
to change its default functionality in conjunction with specific non-standard
requirements. Designed centralized syslog setup with an ability to correlate system
events from multiple boxes, as well as designed searchable WEB GUI. Reported
and tracked customer affecting issues to customer helpdesks. Subsidiary tasks
involved remote and on-site systems administration of Linux and Windows boxes,
work at the datacenters and other projects.

[03/2004 – 12/2004] Senior systems administrator

"NiuTech" - Internet advertisement
Proactively monitored and administered production and development servers
remotely and at the data center. Provided 24/7 on call availability by means of cell
phone, instant messaging and e-mail. Improved system security by limiting users
using unjustified root access. Built optimized and patched linux kernels and mission-
critical daemons with CPU optimizations to provide functionality not available in stock
kernels and software, performance and reliability. Reconfigured firewall to block
“SYN” flood DoS attacks. Installed monitoring software, which allows performing
statistical analysis of the cluster load up to one year long. Designed and implemented
backup procedures. Actively participated in disaster planning. Researched new
software and evaluated new hardware prior to using it in production mode.
Negotiated with vendors in cases of hardware failures or software issues. Besides
systems administration, was the point of technical contact for the developers and
office PC support technician.

[09/2001 - 03/2004] Systems administrator and integrator

"Microway inc" - Supplier of high-end clusters, servers and workstations.
Configured and troubleshooted hundreds of Linux clusters, servers and workstations.
Reviewed software installation procedures. Implemented new procedure for drive
copying, dramatically reducing the time to create new system disks. Maintained and
supported Linux prototype disks, including security updates, bug fixes, and feature
enhancements. Decreased problem solving times by evaluating new Linux kernels
and applying necessary patches in advance. Ported applications. Performed onsite
installations at client sites including MIT, San Jose University. Developed firewall to
allow customers to connect to clusters remotely with full root access in isolation from
company's networking. Designed and implemented company intrusion detection
system and firewall to monitor and block malicious traffic.

[6/2000 - 6/2001] Technical support specialist

"ACTOR" - ISP
Served as the initial point of contact for resolution of connectivity and interoperability
problems for several thousand dialup users and dozens of LAN users in
heterogeneous, multi platform environment - mainly FreeBSD, RedHat, Windows.
Besides technical support, performed many functioning aspects of a systems
administrator. Supported LAN with printing and Internet. Monitored hardware and
software functionality 24/7 to ensure their connectivity and availability. Webmastered.
Configured workstations and laptops for new employees. Conducted research on
proposed system upgrades and identified potential incompatibilities that led to
alternative system purchase.

[2/1999 – 6/2000] Technician

"KIMOR" - computer vendor
Assembled computers, performed upgrades, analyzed and fixed device conflicts.
Consulted customers to choose the proper configuration, for their needs. Supported
in-house computers and LAN, running Windows.

[7/1998 – 2/1999] Import agent

"DHL international" - worldwide parcel service
Monitored cargo and parcel arrival and helped recipients to prepare all necessary
documents for customs clearance. Actively communicated with foreign DHL's
departments abroad. Traced parcels using enterprise network.

Education
[9/1994 - 7/1998]
Degree: Bachelor of Science
College: "Saint-Petersburg engineering school of electronics"
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Certificates
[April 24, 1997] Specialist of power electrostations (diesel).
[May 7, 2003] PolyServe technical training.
[September 17,2003] Master's Level of Linux Administration with a score of 4.31
(Higher than 97% of participants)
http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=4646644

Operating systems:
Linux: Gentoo, RedHat, Suse, Mandrake, Yellow Dog, Knoppix, Debian, Slackware
etc.
Unix flavors: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSDi, Mac OS X, SUN Solaris.
Other OS: OS/2, DOS, Windows (NT, 95, 98, 2000, 2003, XP).

Networking and services:

Database replication. Scalability planning. Disaster recovery. Load balancing.
Diskless boot. Channel bonding, network teaming. CVS, SAN, NAS. NIS/YP, NNTP,
NTP, Telnet. Web servers: Apache Tomcat, IIS. Proxy servers: Squid, Wingate,
Winproxy. FTP servers: Proftpd, Wu-ftpd, Sftpd, ftpd, BulletProof ftp, TFTP and so
on. DNS: bind or named. Firewall configuration: NAT, Masquerade, connection
tracking: iptables, ipchains, ipfw. VPN: Freeswan, IP Sec, pptp. Routing: BGP,
OSPF. Mail SMTP: Sendmail, Postfix+sasl, Qmail. POP3/IMAP: qpopper, pop3d,
courier. Security: Snort, ettercap, Nessus, John The Ripper, PGP, GPG, nmap,
superscan, arpwatch, LIDS, SSH, SSL, TLS, TCP Wrappers, Ethereal, dsniff,
tcpdump, saint, portsentry, XSpider, Retina, chkrootkit, Tripwire, Antivirus software
for mail servers, SPAM filtering by means of DNS blacklists, custom rules, SPF,
Spamassassin, domain keys. Rootkit and backdoor identification and removal, DOS
and DDoS defense. Batch OS installation, automation: JumpStart / Kick Start.
DHCP, LDAP, Software VoIP, Automount. SQL: MySQL, Postgres, Oracle. Network
data backups: NFS, Samba, nc. Monitoring and alerting: Nagios, Ganglia,
MRTG. FAXes: mgetty+sendfax, lpd, smbprint, WinFax. Networking: TCP/IP, SMB,
IPX - novell netware, plip, slip, ppp, pppoe.

Languages:
Assembler for x86: nasm, as, masm, tasm. C, C++.
Web development: HTML, XML, CSS, Java, CGI, SSI, Perl, PHP.
Shell scripting: bash, csh, sed, awk, regular expressions.

Hardware:
IBM PC compatibles (Various vendors, eg: Dell, IBM), Alpha (UP 2000, DP 2000),
Apple Macintosh, Opteron, Itanium. Software and hardware RAIDs (Adaptec, 3Ware,
Promise).Storcase disk enclosures. Network switches, routers (3com, Cisco, Dlink,
HP, Linksys, Netgear). Modems (3com, USR Robotics, DOCSIS). Tape libraries
(DLT). UPS (APC, Tripplite), Network Appliance SAN, KVM over IP, IPMI, iSCSI.
Cyclades TS3000 Terminal Server, PIX 515E, Foundry load balancers.

PS: References, certificates and diplomas are provided upon request.

I am available for a phone, conference call or conference chat interview.