This page is an abridged version of my CV; the full version is available on request.
Basic details
- Name: Vivek Gite
- Nationality: Indian
- E-mail: vivek@nixcraft.com
Education
- Degree: BCA (Computer Applications)
- Post-graduate: Pursuing MCA (Master of Computer Applications, a three-year Professional Master’s degree in Computer Science awarded in India)
- IT Certification: Various certification in IT such as RHCE and others.
The Role
As a seasoned Unix admin, performance specialist, and scripts jockey, I work to solve various challenging problem in engineering-driven environment. I’ve written scripts which automated the entire UNIX infrastructure. I’ve strong passion for running and working with high trafficked websites and networks in the world.
- Worked as UNIX system administrator, capacity planner, and performance analyst.
- Worked in a 4000+ server environment.
- Responsible for making sure high traffic ecom site, dns service, and portal always works in 24×7, period.
- Extensive technical troubleshooting, performance tuning experience for UNIX and RHEL based systems.
- Rock solid UNIX scripting using shell, perl and python.
- Extensive knowledge of deploying and integrating cutting edge technologies such as CDNs, Load Balancing, Virtualization and Cloud Computing in existing infrastructure.
- 12+ years of hands-on experience in Unix based production environment.
Tech Skill Sets
My skill set ranking based upon 0-10.
Core UNIX / Linux Skill Sets
- TCP / IP Networking and UNIX / Linux security – SELinux, Chroot Jails, Grsecurity, Pax, Rule Set Based Access Control (RSBAC), and Linux kernel hardening etc (9)
- Linux / UNIX servers and applications such as httpd / mail / dns (bind) / LDAP etc (9)
- High availability computing, optimization and clusters & storage (9)
- Configuration management using Chef, Puppet, and, Cfengine (9)
- Extensive use of open source monitoring tools such as Nagios, MRTG, Cacti, and others (8)
- Use of version control systems such as rcs, svn, git, and bugzilla (6)
- Operating systems – FreeBSD (9), RHEL/Debian Linux (9), HP-UX (5), AIX (4) and Solaris (9).
Virtualization
- VmWare (9)
- KVM (9)
- FreeBSD jails (8)
- Xen (6)
- z/VM (4)
UNIX scripting / programming
- KSH / Bash Shell scripting (9)
- Perl (8)
- Python (7)
- GNU Compilers and Developers tools (7)
- C Programming ( 5 )
- Data structures (2)
- Web programming / CSS / Ajax ( 0 )
Database (DBA)
- MySQL DBA, tunning and MySQL clusters (8)
- PostgreSQL basic DBA (3)
- Oracle basic DBA (2)
Others
- Data Center – Networking – Cisco IOS, routers, VLANS, DMZ etc (4)
- Network installation using kickstart, jumpstart, and cobbler (9).
- Storage – NetApp (5)
- Shared storage installation and tweaking – NFS, iSCSI, GFS2
Professional
I’m a Senior UNIX / Linux admin. I have worked remotely for clients in a number of countries. I specialize in the design of high performance computing (HPC) using Linux, security and optimization for the Internet and intranet usage. I’m currently working as contractor / consultant on large government and defense IT projects.
I’m the sole administrator for a number of Internet domains and servers, and have experience in administering and securing very large network systems.
I’m editor for the nixCraft UNIX / Linux sys admin webblog which is daily read by over 30k+ subscribers with over 3.5 millions page views per month.
