Professional résumé of Jeremy Avnet My professional, academic and artistic experiences have gravitated toward systems of interacting components. Professionally, I have been a system administrator. Academically, I have studied social networks and the behaviours within them. Artistically, I have been interested in drawing attention to subtle environmental experiences. Skills and Technologies Experience Languages Well versed in Bash, Python, Perl, C Acquainted with Ruby, PHP, XHTML/CSS, JavaScript Operating Systems Ubuntu: 6.06 - 7.10 Debian: 2.1 - 3.1 Mac OS: 10.2 - 10.5 Xen: 2 & 3 System Software web: Apache2, lighttpd, lots of Apache modules, log processors, etc. mail: Postfix, Dovecot, Courier, Qmail, Mailman, Ezmlm, SpamAssassin H-A: LVS, Heartbeat, keepalived, DRBD, NFS, NTP, TinyDNS, MRTG, Zabbix DB: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite misc: Jabber, Codeville, Flyspray, MTR, Tcpdump, Wireshark, NMap, etc. Professional Experience April 2006 - Present: Mosuki, San Francisco, CA CEO / Biz Dev / Product Manager / Project Manager + Redesign core product goals to better address the needs of target consumer market. + Partial redesign of web application interaction and look & feel to better address core product goals. + Manage development team, milestones and goals. + Build various complete 3-5 year financial models. + Create and present slide show bait for potential investors. + Prevent company wide nervous breakdown via unyielding optimism. March 2005 - April 2006: BitTorrent, Inc., San Francisco, CA Senior System Administrator + Using Linux Virtual Server (LVS) and heartbeat services, create a high-performance, highly-available web service architecture robust to hardware failure and easily scalable. + Maintain DNS, mail server, load balancers, application servers, PostgreSQL databases, Xen servers, network connectivity, etc. + Design a high-throughput, high-availability disk cluster for serving 100s of mbits of bandwidth for many thousands of torrents. + Work with remote search engine development team to test and incrementally deploy replacement torrent search engine. + Using chat, mailing lists, wiki, revision control, bug tracking, and Xen servers create and maintain a communication oriented developer environment for quick application development. September 2003 - Present: Mosuki, San Francisco, CA Senior System Administrator + Using Linux Virtual Server (LVS), heartbeat & keepalived services, DRBD, and NFS, create a high-performance, highly-available web service architecture robust to hardware failure and easily scalable. + Maintain DNS, mail server, load balancers, application servers, PostgreSQL databases, network connectivity, etc. + Create custom system software for safe and simple deployment of new versions of web application. + Using chat, mailing lists, wikiwiki, revision control, and bug tracking, create and maintain a communication oriented environment for quick application development. February 2003 - May 2003: CS Dept., Univ New Mexico Graduate Research Assistant + Wrote simulations in C and Perl to test theories of trust metric algorithms on scale-free (social) networks. February 1999 - Present: Theory.org, California Senior System Administrator + install/maintain: web, mail, imap, dns, jabber, inetd, ssh, wikis, blogs, mysql, postgresql, spamassassin, webmail, and miscellaneous scripts and services. + Migrate live system to new hardware (multiple times). + Hardware setup and maintenance of Cisco router, LAN hubs/switches, SDSL router, ADSL bridges, and cabinet. + Kernel configuration, package management, scripting. Webmaster + Design and code of site-wide pages. Software/Audio Engineer + In Perl, create a LAN/WAN distributed MP3 filesystem and jukebox player using a client/server based architecture . + In C, C++, Perl, and GTK, work with a team to create cellular automata and fractal visualization/sonification software. June 2001 - October 2001: AtreNet, Santa Cruz, CA Senior System Administrator (@ Rockview) + Installed site hardware and configured Linux WANpipe services to manage T1 network connection. + Deployed mail / web / dns server. + Maintained onsite workstations. April 2000 - November 2000: LEEPS, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA Postgraduate Researcher + In C and curses, constructed client/server based games to simulate social dilemmas on the internet and in various market economies. Worked with Xerox Parc Internet Ecologies group to do live, human run versions of the simulations. July 2000 - August 2000: WrapZap, Santa Cruz, CA System Administrator + Maintained and hardened security for a remote network of live and development machines acting as the product mail and web servers. + Debian package creation for software used to power product. June 1999 - June 2000: AtreNet, Santa Cruz, CA System Administrator + Converted office LAN from Windows NT to Linux. All home directories mounted off of a main fileserver. + Services setup and maintained: NIS/YP, DNS, NFS, NTP, SSH, JunkBuster, drive mirroring, log watching, Samba. Hardware/Software Engineer (Project: ControlBox) + Using Video for Linux, constructed machine capable of viewing four separate web cams and controlling household appliances. Camera selection and appliance control was done using the X10 protocol and a homebuilt multiplexer. + Created web interface using Perl/CGI in a client/server framework. Education Santa Fe Institute: Complex Systems Summer School, Qingdao, China, 2004 Graduate research in social networks, University New Mexico, 2002/2003 Thesis Honors, Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000 Degree Honors, Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000 B.A., Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://brainsik.to/resume.txt http://brainsik.to/cv.txt March 2008