Damien Krotkine - Perl Senior Developer

In a Nutshell:

• Perl expert (8 years prof. experience).
• Linux expert (10 years prof. experience, Official Gentoo and Mandriva dev)
• Good project management skills.
• Speaks French, English, German.
• 29 years old.

Work Experience:

since oct 2006

Venda Ltd, UK: Perl Senior Developer, Code Review Team Leader, London.

Mission: Code reviewing and refactoring.

• Manage the Code Review Team.
• Review other developers' code before inclusion on production sites.
• Develop and include tools to increase global code quality.
• Enforce coding style and PBP (Perl Best Practises) compliance.
• Manage development projects.
• Design and develop new key features.

feb - oct 2006

Mandriva, France: Project Leader, Linux Architect, Paris.

Mission: Manage the development of Pulse, a systems management software.

• Technical project management.
• Discuss with customers new features, and long term goals.
• Manage the development ressources against strict deadlines.
• Architecture conception, long term development orientation.
• Sales Consultant and project manager on derivated products.
• Main customers: Dassault Aviation(FR), Crédit Agricole(FR), CEA(FR).
• Technologies: perl, ruby, Yahoo UI Library, Intel AMT, ldap, pxe, rpm.

2002 - 2006

IDM, France: Department Head, Paris.

Mission:Manage the production department for online and offline Linux, MacOS X & Windows software.

• Project Leader on multiple parallel projects.
• Managed a technical team of 10 people.
• Managed customer relationship.
• Managed integration of R&D search engine technology.
• Took care of specifications, project management and post-release maintenance management.
• Main customers: Hachette Multimédia(FR), Longman(UK), Cambridge University Press(UK), Oxford University Press(UK).
• Technologies: perl, mozilla, xul, nspr, HTML::Mason, sqlite, postgresql.

1999 - 2002

Mandriva, France: Configuration tools developer, Paris.

Mission:Develop and maintain the configuration tools of Mandriva Linux.

• Author of the Mandriva Control Center.
• Developed a number of graphical configuration tools, as well as the underlying toolkit.
• Various development on the Mandriva Installer.
• Package Maintainer, also did general QA on the distribution.
• Technologies: perl, gtk, rpm, bash, C.

Education:

1997 - 2000

EISTI (Ecole des Sciences du Traitement de l'Information), Cergy, France.
Computer Science studies. Graduated on 4th sept 2000.

1995 - 1997

Mathématiques Supérieures et Spéciales, Lycée Claude Bernard, Paris, France.

1995

Baccalauréat S (high school diploma majoring in Sciences), Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Publications:

Articles

Introduction to Mason : 3 articles in the French Linux Magazine (to be published in march 2007).

Book

Linux, the complete guide : french book written with 2 co-authors, a guide to linux dedicated to new users, available on amazon. 2 editions, 500 pages.

Docs

Wrote a Mozilla documentation on the Windows installer module.

Technical skills:

Theory

Algorithms, data structures, object oriented programming, functional programming, MVC oriented programming, RDBMS knowledge.

Systems

Linux x86, official Gentoo Linux developer, official Mandriva Linux developer.
Linux ppc, Apple and Pegasos hardware

Languages

Perl, ruby, C, C++, java, bash, SQL, PHP, JSP, Javascript.

Web

CGI, J2EE, HTML::Mason, WEBrick, Yahoo UI Library, HTML, XHTML, XML, XSL, CSS, JS, XUL, gecko, mod_perl.

Servers

Apache, Tomcat, OpenLDAP, Samba, PureFTPd, sshd, nfs, knockd.

Libraries

C-Gtk2, perl-Gtk2, perl/ruby-ldap, libglade, XUL, XPCOM, nspr, ncurses.

RDBMS

postgresql, mysql, sqlite.

Devel. Tools

RT: Request Tracker, GNU tools, bash, zsh, emacs, cvs, svn, make, ant, gnuplot, openldap.

Languages:

French

Native speaker. Good writing skills, co-author of a Linux vulgarization book.

English

Fluent. Practised in customer relationship.

German

Read, written, spoken. Lived 4 years in Frankfurt/Main (Germany).

Open Source Projects:

Perl

Promote, share experience, learn new skill

• Official member of Paris.pm.
• RT::Client::Console : ncurses client to RT, on CPAN.
• Libconf : Linux configuration files abstraction layer (perl module).
• GTK2fu : official CPAN module, layer on top of GTK2.

Gentoo Linux

Help improving Gentoo Linux experience

• Official developer.
• Profuse : Graphical USE-flags editor for Gentoo Linux in GTK2.
• flagedit : CLI keywords editor for Gentoo Linux.
• Configuration tools development (profuse, flagedit).
• Package maintainer, general QA.
• Gentoo Linux PPC team member.

Events

Advocate Perl, Linux and OSS :

• FPW 2007 (French Perl Workshop) : 40 min talk about RT::Client::Console.
• FPW 2006 (French Perl Workshop) : 20 min talk "Introduction to Mason".
• FOSDEM : lightening talks on libconf.
• LSM (Libre Software Meeting) : PLF and Gentoo Linux booth.
• Germany : Gentoo Linux Developers European Conferences.

Extracurricular activities:

• Climbing, indoor and outdoor.
• Extreme Snowboarding.
• Drumset player.