Petru Paler

Dublin, Ireland; email: petru@paler.net; Web: http://petru.paler.net.

Professional experience

Supporting high volume, high availability internet-scale services. Worked in the indexing, logging, authentication and Google Apps teams.

Design and development of a large-scale email reputation system.

Design of a system, protocol and server for email reputation data
Co-authored the SIQ protocol IETF Internet Draft in order to standardize and consolidate the email reputation systems
Implemented a Python-based SIQ server for reputation data, in use by outboundindex.net and mailcruncher.com
Implemented a data mining system in order to compute the reputation data offered by the SIQ server
Implemented SIQ query clients for Sendmail and Postfix
Designed and implemented the network structure for the outboundindex.net servers, and provided operations support for them

Co-founded the company and handled day to day operations in the Romanian office
Led a team of 3 people in designing and implementing NSE's managed security monitoring (MSM) service

Services:

Worked with clients in the USA, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Romania, Italy and the UK, including:

In charge with network design, security and on-call problem resolution
Redesigned the network layout in order to improve speed and resiliency
Integrated networks of ISPs bought by the company
Provided networking, systems and security consulting for the company's clients
Coordinated the management of the Linux and OpenBSD servers that provided the DNS, mail, web serving, authentication/billing, backup and security services to the clients, as well as the servers in the colocation center

In charge with designing and implementing the company's fast growing, country-wide IT infrastructure and network
Designed and implemented the company virtual private network, including firewalled access points to the Internet
Installed, configured, maintained and tuned the company's file, mail and web servers
Provided UNIX and security consulting to clients
Designed and implemented a metasearch engine
Worked with the programming and user interface teams to design and implement scalable backends for the web sites that the company was building

In charge with the ISP system and network administration tasks
Redesigned the network layout to provide better service quality for clients
Moved the accounting system from a custom, proprietary solution to a centralized RADIUS architecture
Ported the Linux driver for a Moxa C168 multiport serial board from kernel 2.0 to kernel 2.2

Programming languages: Python, C, SQL
Technologies: TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, distributed & grid computing
Platforms: Linux
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
Note: worked with many other languages, platforms and technologies over the years. The above is a list of current skillsets.

ArsDigita bootcamp (Los Angeles, August 2000). Topics covered: web development using the ACS toolkit, Oracle databases, usability, web application security.
Some coursework towards the Cisco CCNA certification track