Bela Lubkin

                            Mountain View, CA, USA
                                +1 831 234 8648
                                bela@lubkin.com

                          Résumé build 93, 2012-09-20
                     Latest version in HTML / Text / Word:
                      http://lubkin.com/bela/resume.html

OBJECTIVE

Full-time position developing and maintaining UNIX / Linux system-level
software or other interesting technology. I seek an individual contributor
position with some responsibility for technological decisions. I am comfortable
communicating with the entire development community, from designers to
engineers, QA, support, OEM partners, resellers, and most especially end users.

My most important goal is to always learn while I work.

EXPERIENCE

20 years developing, maintaining and supporting complex software systems under
multiple operating systems and languages.

Technologies:

  * x86 virtualization technologies
  * UNIX / Linux kernel, drivers and utilities
  * C, JavaScript, Pascal, FORTRAN
  * x86 and other assembly languages
  * UNIX / Linux scripting languages (sh/ksh/bash, sed, awk, some perl and
    python)

Skills:

  * debugging, troubleshooting, problem solving
  * performance analysis, tuning, algorithmic enhancement
  * security assessment and hardening
  * ability to successfully interact with highly technical customers
  * ability to successfully interact with non-technical customers, especially
    solving problems they don't understand
  * strong focus on customer / user needs and desires

EMPLOYMENT

Jan 2006-present

VMware, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer (Senior MTS), Ecosystem Engineering, Engineering
Services (Jun 2012-present)

  * Help OEM partners debug their device drivers (and occasionally the ESX code
    they interface to)
  * Help partners port obscure operating systems into the virtual environment

Senior Software Engineer (MTS3; Senior MTS), Continuing Product Engineering,
VMware vSphere (Jan 2006-Jun 2012)

  * Escalations and maintenance of VMware ESX/ESXi/vSphere virtualization
    platforms and related technologies.
  * Contributed to the delivery of ESX/ESXi/vSphere patches, updates and full
    product releases from ESX 2.5.4 through vSphere 5.0
  * Facilitated $10 million sales to replicated sites using legacy SCO
    operating systems
  * Primary responsibilities:
      + Receive, triage, research incoming bug reports & security issues
      + Design, test, shepherd through code review, submit code fixes
      + Determine which fixes must enter which patch or update releases
      + Review other engineers' code, documentation, project plans etc.
      + Improve our processes

2005

IS-Data, LLC (is-data.net)

Senior Forensic Investigator, Security Analyst

  * Disk image analysis, security evaluations, penetration tests.

1989-2004

The Santa Cruz Operation / Caldera International / The SCO Group

  * SCO OpenServer Architect (2001-2004)
      + Tech lead on 50+ team delivering a server Unix operating system through
        several release cycles & a major kernel upgrade (SVR3.2 -> 4.2ES/MP)

  * Senior Escalation Research Engineer (1993-2001)
      + Fixed customer urgent issues throughout a server Unix operating system,
        from boot code through SMP, drivers, video, utilities, graphical system
        administration, installation, packaging, etc.

  * Senior Technical Support Engineer (1989-1993)
      + Expert support of UNIX System V, development tools, networking.

1989

Worthington Data Solutions (now Worth Data)

Software Engineer

  * Rewrote their flagship product, sharply reducing support costs. Same
    product (greatly evolved) is still shipping in 2012.

EDUCATION

  * In-house classes at VMware & SCO
  * Computer science major, not completed before pursuing career, at U-MN
    (Minneapolis) & U-WI (River Falls).

OTHER

  * References on request
  * My 6000+ USENET posts: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:
    bela+author:lubkin (don't sort by date)
  * Mathematical and computer games, especially Conway's Life (my "TurboLife"
    implementation from 1985) and other cellular automata
  * KEYWORD SOUP -- some additional technologies I work with:
  * BSD C++ Concurrency CSS Filesystems HTML SCSI SMTP SSL TCP USB Windows XML