Bela Lubkin

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

                         Résumé build 104, 2018-04-29
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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:

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

Skills:

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

EMPLOYMENT

2017-2018

Green Hills Software

Software Engineer

  * Development of validation tests for INTEGRITY realtime operating system
  * Maintenance of test suite infrastructure
  * Maintenance of INTEGRITY itself
  * Language: primarily Python; some C, POSIX shell; tools: GHS MULTI IDE,
    Subversion & JIRA

2016

Sabbatical

  * Self-study of JavaScript & HTML DOM, CSS, git & github, other technologies
  * Contributor to Social Fixer browser extension for Facebook
  * Contributor to Rocks'n'Diamonds video game
  * Minor contributor to other open source projects

2014-2015

Google, Inc.

Site Reliability Engineer

  * Member of multi-site team sharing realtime oncall duties
  * Monitor and maintain world-wide network of advertisement delivery servers
  * Identify and repair error conditions, anomalous flow rates, undue resource
    usage
  * Turnup new / turndown old datacenters of several hundred servers each
  * Continuous improvement of turnup / turndown procedures, scripts &
    documentation
  * Primary development tools: Python, C++, Posix shell, Google Config
    Language, Google SCM and other in-house tools

2013

TidalScale, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer

  * Develop memory- and CPU-coalescing multi-host single-guest hypervisor based
    on FreeBSD bhyve
  * Primary development tools: C, Posix shell, git / github

2006-2013

VMware, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer (Senior MTS), Ecosystem Engineering, Engineering
Services (2012-2013)

  * 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 (2006-2012)

  * 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
  * Provided technical guidance and code fixes leading to support of SCO
    OpenServer guest operating system
  * Received award & bonus for facilitating $10 million sale to legacy SCO
    OpenServer replicated sites
  * 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 (now Xinuous,
Inc.)

  * SCO OpenServer Architect (2001-2004)
      + Tech lead on 50+ team delivering server Unix operating system through
        several release cycles & 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 2016

EDUCATION

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

OTHER

  * My 6000+ USENET posts: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/
    %22Bela%20Lubkin%22 (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: Concurrency
    Filesystems SCSI SMTP SSL TCP USB Windows XML
  * References on request