Profession

Software Engineer, Unix, Linux & Solaris expert

Employment Objectives

To work as a senior software engineer and a technology leader for Unix/Linux, networking, security, embedded, etc.

Technical Expertise

• Programmer expert for Linux/Solaris/Unix with C++/C languages

• Deep knowledge of Unix operating systems

• Storage of flash (SQL database on chip) and traditional disk-arrays

• HA and cluster services using GoAhead and SAF services on Linux blade servers

• Server-side and Real-Time (pseudo RT) programming for Embedded Linux

• Create an R&D environment from scratch (trac, svn, make, doxygen, qmake, valgrind, cppunit, electric-fence, log4cxx, boost, ACE, …)

• 32bit/64bit code optimizations using Intel's Vtune & Sun's collector/analyzer

• Experience with AIX, HP-UX, Windows, Scheme, Common Lisp, Perl, Tk/Tcl, Emacs, C/C++ compilers, ...

• Knowledge at Linux kernel development

• Knowledge of hardware

Human Expertise

• Focal point for solving problem for the entire R&D team

• Guiding of R&D teams into new technologies, problem solving between R&D and end-users, benchmarking and sizing studies on Linux and Solaris

Experience

• 2009 – today Petascan (startup)

  • Lead software engineer for Linux 32bit/64bit C++/C for the petascan project of implementing an SQL engine over SSD flash device.

  • Create of an R&D environment from scratch using doxygen, make, trac, svn, valgrind, cppunit, electric-fence, log4cxx, boost, …

  • Implement SQL SQLite virtual table over an SSD flash device

  • Performance tunning of code using Sun's collector/analyzer

  • Implementing micro and system testing

• 2007 - March 2009 BigBand Network

  • Software engineer at the IPTV group, C++, Linux expert for the ADM application

    • XML input and event-driven from external advertiser into the Raven application

  • Software engineer at the IPTV group, C/C++, Linux expert for Raven

    • Developing a video broadcasting pseudo-realtime application running on a blade system with GoAhead cluster software above WindRiver Linux

      • Implement timers and event dispatching based on the SAF services model

      • Implement SAF event service model over GoAhead

      • Benchmark and optimize TIPC message passing between nodes of the cluster

      • Implement a SAF service for remote execution and heart-beat

      • Doxygen for code documentation

      • Cross-team work between two R&D groups at Tel-Aviv and USA

      • Dynamic change of debugging setting of application using MySQL tables

      • Using the WindRiver toolchain for cross-compiling and cross-debugging of a blade server embedded with WindRiver Linux

• 2001 - 2006 Sun Microsystems

  • Senior software engineer at the MDE group, Solaris, C/C++ expert

    • Assimilation of Solaris & Linux technologies

    • Consultant and leader of software engineering work with ISVs/IHVs that run on Sun's technologies of:

      • Sparc machines

      • AMD64 machines

      • Storage hardware

      • Solaris&Linux OS

      • Java, J2EE

    • Sizing, tuning, and monitoring of various applications for the above technologies

    • Coordinate and lead software/support groups to solve a specific customer issues

    • Lead the adoption of new technologies

    • Advocate and "evangelize" new technologies

• 1990 - 2000, Dazix (Daisy/Cadnetix) /SEE Technologies/Summit Design/Innoveda

-11 years in the same company but with changes in ownership

• 1999 - 2000, Innoveda - Group leader, Linux "guru"

  • Assimilation of Linux technologies

  • Application adaptation to Linux

  • Configuration Management tools

  • Apache/PHP/MySQL experiment

  • C++, C, Scheme, Perl, Tk/Tcl

  • Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Windows NT

• 1994 - 1999, Summit Design - Senior software engineer, group leader, Unix specialist

  • Embedding of a scripting language (Scheme) within an EDA tool

  • TCP/IP networking extensions

  • Application automation with the Scheme scripting language

  • Application adaptation to the Solaris OS with GNU compilers and tools

  • Integration with revision control system

  • C++, Scheme, Common Lisp, Perl

  • Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Windows NT

• 1991 - 1994, SEE Technologies - Senior software engineer

  • OO database of a chip layout tool for the EDA industry

  • EDIF output for a "VHDL by picture" EDA tool

  • C++/C

  • SunOS

• 1990 - 1991, Dazix (Daisy/Cadnetix) – Junior Software engineer

  • OO database of a chip layout tool for the EDA industry

  • C/Pascal/Fortran

  • SunOS, Daisy Unix

Education

• B.Sc. (1990), computers&math (and some physics), Tel Aviv University, Israel.

• Various courses at Linux kernel development, OOD, OOP, Java, J2EE, ...

Languages

• Hebrew

• English

Personal Details

Date of birth:

April 11, 1964

Address

Gal Shalif, 7 York Shteiner St., Tel Aviv 69860, Israel