Objective

To become an integral part of a globally reputed software firm so that I can utilize my skills and talents for the maximum benefit of the organization.

Personal Details

Languages known : English, Malayalam, Hindi and Arabic
Nationality : Indian
Passport Number : Available on request

Education

• B.Tech ( 2002-2006) , in Computer Science & Engineering, College Of Engineering Kallooppara, Pathanamthitta( CUSAT)
  Aggregate percentage of marks: 70.36
• Higher Secondary (2000-2002), KPMHSS, C.V. Nalloor, Kollam
  Aggregate percentage marks: 71.22
• SSLC(2000), HS C.V.Nalloor, Kollam
  Aggregate percentage marks: 83.83

Experience

Employment Details:

1) HostDime.com Inc , as Server Engineer from September 2006 to March 2010.

Company Profile: HostDime is a privately owned, leading website hosting provider offering managed hosting services that range of reliable, secure, entry-level to enterprise-level web hosting operations. Since its founding in late 2001, the fully supported managed server services and tools the company offers have empowered users to do more with cost in mind. HostDime operates its own datacenter.

Website : http://www.hostdime.com/

Designation : Sr.System Engineer

Job Profile :

Linux/Unix Server Administrator and Security Consultant.
Virtualization Specialist and trainer
Development and maintenance of server/web based software tools.
Research And development (R &D) Engineer.

2) Subhosting.net, as Remote technical consultant from 2007 to till

Company Profile : Subhosting.net specializes in dedicated, VPS hosting solutions in its private facilities in North Carolina, offering complete redundancy in power, HVAC, fire suppression, network connectivity, and security.

Website : http://www.subhosting.net/

Designation : Technical Manager

Job Profile :

Linux/Unix Server Administrator and Security Consultant.
Virtualization Specialist and technical trainer.
Development and maintenance of server/web based software tools.
Research And development (R &D) Engineer.

3) Sharemixer.com now known as Shareigniter.com , as a remote technical consultant from 2007 to till.

Company Profile : Sharemixer is a video streaming software like youtube clone. It is written in php and mysql.

Website :

• http://sharemixer.com/
• http://www.shareigniter.com/

Designation : System Engineer

Job Profile : Linux/ Unix servers customization and maintenance for hosting Sharemixer software.
Upgrade and maintain ffmpeg related tools in servers.
Sharemixer software testing.

Skill Set

Operating Systems

• Gnu/Linux Operating Systems

  Expert in Various Linux distributions as developer and Server administrator, Some of those distributions are Centos, RHEL,Fedora,Debian,ubundu,etc,.

• Unix Operating Systems

  Expert in FreeBSD,NetBSD,etc,. as server administrator and developer.

• Mac Os

  Expert in Mac Os X server as administrator.

• Windows Operating Systems

  As user level experience in windows Server 2008 ,Windows XP and Vista

Programing/Scripting Languages

• C / C++

  Experience in developing device drivers, kernel modules, router firewalls,etc,.
  REF: vcPanel, Milix

• Shell Scripting / BASH

  Experience in Developing various server tools and automation applications.
  Ref: ffmpeginstaller

• Python

  Experience in developing server wide tools, web based applications, application customizations.

• Sed / awk/ Regx

  Experience in Server wide scripting.

• PHP

  Experience in Server applications development, web development,etc,.
  Ref: vcPanel

• Perl

  Development on CGI applications, Server scripting.

• HTML

  Experience with web development.

• CSS

  Intermediate fluency.

• Core Java

  Development based on oops applications.

• SQL

  Intermediate fluency. Integration with C, Perl, Python and PHP

Servers

• Web Servers

  Apache, Lighttpd,Nginx and Tomcat expert-level fluency configuring and installing Apache in ISP environment, SSL management, Creating virtual servers, performance tuning, installation streaming for mass number of domains. Installation of web report software. Load balancing and clustering.

• Database Servers

  MySQL, PgSQL administration,performance tuning, clustering, high availability and development.

• DNS Servers

  Bind configurations , DNS clustering (Expert-level in data center environment)

• FTP Servers

  vsftpd, Proftpd ,pure-ftpd (expert-level in ISP environment, creation of real and virtual FTP servers)

• SMTP Servers

  Exim, Sendmail, Postfix(high-intermediate level, spam and virus filtering, integration with SQL DBs)

• POP3/IMAP Servers

  Courier ,dovecot, cyrus-imap (expert-level, custom integration experience with SQL DBs)

• Authentication Servers

  OpenLDAP, cyrus-sasl

• Repository

  Yum, apt server build and management.

• Remote Login

  Openssh server(Expert, build and configuration in Data centers)

• Exposure To

  NFS, SAMBA cross-platform drive sharing among GNU/LInux,Unix and windows. NIS configurations.

Server Control Panels

• Cpanel

  Expert in build, secure and optimization of Cpanel servers.

• Plesk

  Expert in build, secure and optimization of Plesk servers.

• Webmin

  Expert in build, secure and optimization of Webmin servers.

• Virtuozzo(VPS)

  Expert in build, secure, resource configuration and optimization of Virtuozzo servers.

• vcPanel (VPS )

  Founder and Developer of vcPanel Control panel.

GNU Tools

• GCC

  Expert in usage of gcc compiler collections in software development.

• Autoconf

  Experience in creating configure scripts using autoconf

• Automake

  Expert in developing make files scripts for software build procedure.

• GDB

  Experience in debugging using gdb.

• mipsel-linux-gcc

  Experience in cross compilation for MIPS processors using mipsel-linux-gcc compiler.

Specialization

Linux kernel compilation. Build and maintain Virtual Private Servers (Openvz and Virtuozzo), Elementary device driver coding. Server security audit and performance tuning.

Exposure knowledge to

IPTABLES, Firewalls ( CSF and APF ), IPC mechanisms, rpmbuild utilities.

Projects In Details

Project #1
FFmpeginstall Software:

This is an Open source project completely written in Unix shell script. This is used for configuring and building a video streaming environment in LINUX/UNIX servers.
It is the FOSS India 2008 award winner project.

Tool(s)

Unix Shell Scripting (BASH)

Project Home Page

• http://www.ffmpeginstaller/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeginstall
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/shf

Role

Founder and Developer.

Project #2
vcPanel : Virtual Private Server conrtol

This is a Virtual Private Server conrtol panel. It is used for creating and managing Virtual Private Servers based on OpenVZ technology

Tool(s)

C , BASH , PHP, AJAX, rpmbuild utilities, GNU AUTOMAKE,GCC

Project Home Page

• http://vcpanel.net

Role

Founder, Project Leader and Developer.

Project #3
VPS Administration Tool

This software is used for monitoring and managing VPS server ( Openvz / Virtuzzo) in datacenters. This will insert the static’s of HN ( Hardware Node) and VE's into a mysql database.

Tool(s)

Python, PHP

Role

Project Leader and Developer

Responsibilities

Design of python module and implementation.

Project #4
MSM: Multiple Server Manager

It is a multiple server manager software completely written in python. You can perform same operation from a single shell in hundreds of servers simultaneously using this script.

Tool(s)

Python

Role

Founder and developer.

Project #5
Php-MySQL Enabled Website

This website was designed for managing students information.

Tool(s)

PHP, MySQL,HTML

Role

Project Leader and Developer

Responsibilities

Design and develop the website.

Project #6
MiLiX – A Mini Linux Distribution

MiLiX is a mini embedded Linux distribution and data analysis package for CISCO Linksys router wrt54G.

Tool(s)

C, Make, CC, mipsel-linux-gcc, Python

Role

Project Leader and Developer

Responsibilities

Lead a team of 4 persons. Requirement Analysis, Design, development and porting of the entire project. Took part in initial study and preparation of requirement specification.

Technical Articles

• Openx Handbook

  Description: A complete Openx server build and optimization guide . This will help you to develop an Openx add server from scratch.
  Read More . . .

• Openx Cluster HandBook - 121 Cluster (Nginx,Lighttpd)

  Description: A complete , simple and high performance cluster suite for hosting high traffic websites . It is based on Nginx ,Lighttpd ,Glusterfs Read more

• Martial Arts Master

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Abilities

• Ability to analyze problem/issues.
• Willing to shoulder challenges and responsibilities.
• Self motivated to learn new technologies and work hard.
• Good team player and fast learner.

Declaration

I here by declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.
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