at YELLOWPAGES.COM/AT&T Interactive
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Senior Software Engineer at YELLOWPAGES.COM
- Senior Software Engineer at AT&T Interactive
- Lead Software Engineer at Los Angeles Times Interactive
- Past
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- Web Applications Engineer at EarthLink, Inc.
- Systems Engineer at EarthLink, Inc.
- Systems Engineering Manager at EarthLink, Inc.
- Systems Administrator at EarthLink, Inc.
- Systems Administrator at Software Technologies Corporation
- Systems Administrator at Caltech Graphics Group
- C Programmer at Caltech Computer Science Department
- Computer Programmer at Caltech Graphics Group
- Education
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- California Institute of Technology
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Alf Mikula’s Summary
Looking for opportunities developing Web Applications with Ruby. I'm an extremely fast learner with a very broad range of experience:
About 1 year of Ruby on Rails experience, 7 Years of experience specializing in email server applications, from systems administration of a large SMTP (MX, relay) and POP3 server farm to web development in Java, interacting with IMAP servers for the Web Mail product.
Alf Mikula’s Specialties:
Ruby on Rails Development, Web Application Development, Unix Administration, Java Development
Alf Mikula’s Experience
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Senior Software Engineer
YELLOWPAGES.COM
(Public Company; T; Internet industry)
December 2008 — Present (1 year )
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Senior Software Engineer
AT&T Interactive
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
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Lead Software Engineer
Los Angeles Times Interactive
(Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; TRB; Newspapers industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
As a Lead Software Engineer at the Los Angeles Times Interactive Group, I quickly came up to speed as a Ruby on Rails developer, focusing mainly on the travel.latimes.com web site. Built contextual linking code based on the Aho-Corasick algorithm to link keywords in articles at render time. Published the keyword_prospector gem, which provides public access to the engine used for contextual linking.
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Web Applications Engineer
EarthLink, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; elnk; Internet industry)
November 2002 — September 2007 (4 years 11 months)
As a Java developer, participated in a project to replace EarthLink's Web Mail product with a version with improved performance, easier maintenance, and a faster learning curve for new developers. Became technical lead on Web Mail in about two years. Participated in a team of senior technical engineers to specify and develop a new modular framework based on Spring and Maven, which has become the primary framework for new applications developed by the team.
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Systems Engineer
EarthLink, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ELNK; Internet industry)
February 2002 — November 2002 (10 months)
Specified system hardware requirements and deployment hardware configuration for EarthLink's first Web Mail product, to replace an outsourced Web Mail solution which was not meeting EarthLink's requirements for uptime and performance. Also provided system and deployment requirements for an instant messaging system, which would later become a key part of the MindSpring communication product.
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Systems Engineering Manager
EarthLink, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ELNK; Internet industry)
April 2000 — February 2002 (1 year 11 months)
Managed a small (4-5 members) distributed team of system engineers responsible for presenting system administration and hardware requirements for new and revised EarthLink products in NNTP, E-mail, Authentication, and RADIUS systems.
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Systems Administrator
EarthLink, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ELNK; Internet industry)
May 1998 — April 2000 (2 years )
Member of a team of system administrators managing EarthLink's production Mail (SMTP and POP), NFS (Network Appliance), NNTP, DNS, and HTTP servers. Specialized in performance management for EarthLink's e-mail servers, including but not limited to tuning of network and file i/o subsystems.
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Systems Administrator
Software Technologies Corporation
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1995 — May 1998 (2 years 7 months)
Responsible for configuration and maintenance of a TCP/IP network consisting of 40-60 Unix servers and workstations, 100 PC workstations (including Windows 95 and NT workstation), and 4 Windows NT Servers. Deployed DHCP and WINS servers for ease of managing PC workstations. Deployed Linux Slackware server running Apache httpd 1.2 for internal caching of web documents.
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Systems Administrator
Caltech Graphics Group
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
August 1993 — November 1995 (2 years 4 months)
Responsible for maintenance, upgrades, and configuration of a TCP/IP network of Unix Workstations, X-terminals, and Apple Macintosh computers. Wrote perl utilities for system maintenance, and created a master script written in the Korn shell environment for standard configuration of new machines across three Unix platforms: HP-UX, AIX, and OSF/1.
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C Programmer
Caltech Computer Science Department
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
June 1993 — December 1993 (7 months)
Integrated a natural language research system with a 3D modeling system to allow for natural language specification of physical simulations.
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Computer Programmer
Caltech Graphics Group
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
June 1991 — September 1991 (4 months)
Implemented a system for testing and general use of a full-color, high-quality film recorder. Also worked in C++ to add capabilities to a three-dimensional modeling system.
Alf Mikula’s Education
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California Institute of Technology
Computer Science 1989 — 1994
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Web Applications, Web Technology, Go
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