Curriculum Vitae
Alexey (aka Oleksiy) Kovyrin
Location: Toronto, Canada
Web Site: http://kovyrin.net
E-Mail: alexey@kovyrin.net
Phone: +1 (416) 818-2454
Skype: kovyrin
Twitter: kovyrin
LinkedIn: kovyrin
GTalk/Jabber: kovyrin@gmail.com
Objectives:
- Software Architect for high-load projects
- MySQL Consulting / MySQL DBA
- UNIX System / Network Administrator
- Unix System / Web Developer
Skills Overview:
- Architecture of high-load web-projects
- MySQL database administration (replication clusters, scalability techniques, optimization, backup)
- Scalable software development for web-projects (Perl, PHP, Ruby, C and C++)
- Networks administration (load-balancing, load-distribution, high-availability clustering)
- Work in distributed development environments
Spoken Languages:
- Russian (native)
- Ukrainian (native)
- English (fluent, latest CELPIP score is 4 of 5)
Education History (reverse ordered):
- April 2007 – MySQL Users Conference 2007 Attendee
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September 2004 – June 2005 — Kremenchug State Polytechnic University
- Master of Science in Computer Systems Engineering.
- Graduated with honors from the Computers and Informational Systems Department.
- GPA: 5.0 of 5
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September 2000 – June 2004 — Kremenchug State Polytechnic University
- Bachelor of Computer Science.
- Graduated with honors from the Computers and Informational Systems Department.
- GPA: 5.0 of 5
- June 2000 — Graduated from high school with mathematics specialization
Employment history (reverse ordered):
In February 2008 I’ve joined really great team of Scribd.com developers as a Scalability Expert (web/db/application scalability). Still work from Canada.
Since October 2006 till March 2008 I worked as a part-time MySQL performance expert in a great team of MySQL experts from Percona and was specializing on in MySQL Performance and MySQL data recovery (I’m the author of the innodb recovery toolkit).
In June 2006 I moved to Canada and started working for “Galt Networks Inc.” – Canadian corporation primarily involved in the areas of domain monetization, performance based internet advertising and rich media web applications. Worked full-time on a position which could be described as a mix of Software architect, Senior Unix Administrator and Web Developer. In February 2008 we’ve switched our relationships from employment to a partnership and I’ve started working with Scribd.com.
October 2005 – June 2006: Worked for “New Age Opt-In” (USA) – a leading online relationship marketing company specializing in email marketing for customer acquisition and retention and located in USA. Worked full-time remotely on a position of System Administrator/Software Developer.
July 2004 – October 2006: Worked for “Okhei, Ltd.” (USA) – international online business company (cluster based hosting platforms, clustered internet advertising services, VoIP projects). Fill-time remote position: Senior System Administrator/Software Developer.
April 2005 – October 2005: Worked on contract for ISP “Delta-Net” (Ukraine) as an IT Project Manager/Senior System Administrator.
December 2003 – April 2005: Worked fill-time for ISP “Fuji-Line” (Ukraine) as a Senior System and Network Administrator.
September 2002 – December 2003: Worked full-time for ISP “S-Net Ltd.” (Ukraine) as a System and Network Administrator.
January 2002 – November 2002: Worked part-time for Kremenchug State Polytechnical University as a Unix System Administrator.
Detailed projects history could be found in separate Projects History Section