Alexandr Sergeyev

Objectives

Ten years of Perl Web applications development.
More than two years active Python use for production client-server envirornments (including Twisted and Django frameworks).
Five years with various XML technologies.
Ten+ years of managing various Linux/Unix OS and installing/tuning server software, three years administering network devices and configuring network routers.
Strong PHP, Java, and C/C++ programming skills.
Experience with popular web services API (Google and Yahoo search and maps API, Amazon Advertising API & EC2 , Google AdWords API, etc)
Bonus buzz: CSS3, SEO, usability, NoSQL.

Application Developer
Dynamic Network Services Inc., Manchester, NH USA
Nov/2006 - Present Time

Maintained and extended application components on company's website DynDNS.com.
Developed DynDNS Bonjour Server.
Modified internal tool that syncronizes application code to company's servers to automatically exclude currently updated servers from load-balancer pool.
DNSCog DNS report tool (built on company retreat in few days by 5 developers).
Significantly updated DynDNS application that receives millions of dynamic DNS updates every day.

Director of Web-Based Research Applications
The Livingston Group of Marketing Research, Windham, NH USA
(former Executive Solutions Inc., Syosset, NY USA)
Apr/2001 - Sep/2006

Implemented Interface(tm) marketing research technique as an complex online testing system containing few related applications. (done project planning, Perl programming, consulting with technique inventors and coordinating setup of the system to run research studies for few Fortune-500 companies)
Wrote a multiuser program to administer e-mail subscriptions (application to create sets of letters to be delivered on an individual schedule).
Developed survey management scripts for collecting, checking and screening people's responses; exporting results to SPSS or CSV files including a tool for converting any XML files to custom-format data file with optional calculation stage.
Created lightweight AdWords API Perl library that allows to use Google Adwords API even in envirorments that do not have Perl-XML modules installed.
Managed two Linux servers with more than 50 working web projects (Apache HTTP service with PHP and mod_perl frameworks) and TCP/IP services for company employees and contractors (MySQL, SSH, FTP, CVS, DNS, SMTP/POP3 mail server with spam and virus filters). Made research, and selected services and software providers, done regular software upgrades.

Senior Engineer (Full Time)
JSC "National Information Technologies", Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan
(Internet service provider, country-wide FrameRelay/X.25/IP network operator)
Apr/1998 - Feb/2002

Developed and supported company's web sites.
Participated in programming of a billing tool for Internet service clients (Perl/C++/PostgreeSQL, IP netflow daemon and web scripts).
Regularly gave a review of junior engineers' work to regional office director and participated in his decision making.
Managed Linux, FreeBSD and SCO Unix servers in 24*7 production environment.
Done network administration tasks: configured, monitored and managed "Cisco" routers, Dial-Up modem pools, and other devices. Did planning, addressing and routing for segments of wide area network. Played role of a group leader in network installation procedures.

System Administrator (Part Time)
North-Kazakhstan State University, Computer Science Department
Sep/1996 - Jan/1998

Done routine maintenance of 30 computers. Supervising students' work in a computer class.

North-Kazakhstan State University. Majored in mathematics and computer science, graduated in 1998 with honors (GPA 3.9)

Teaching Experience: High school teacher of mathematics and computer science (as part of pedagogical training), Oct-Nov/1997 and Feb-Apr/1998
Undergraduate Admission Committee Secretary, 1997, Department of Information Technologies
Thesis paper "Fuzzy Sets and Expert Systems in Education," 1998
Member of Bachelor Thesises Examination Committee, 2000, Department of Computer Science

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updated in June, 2010