Curriculum Vitae

Alexey (aka Oleksiy) Kovyrin

Location:  Toronto, Canada
Web Site: http://kovyrin.net
E-Mail: 
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
  • 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
  • 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

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