Aleksey Tsalolikhin

Current

Sr. UNIX/Linux System Administrator and Architect at Deluxe Digital Cinema

Past

Unix/Linux Administrator at Deluxe
Unix Systems Administrator at Aleksey Tsalolikhin Unix Sys Admin Consultant
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator at EarthLink

UNIX Systems Administrator at InsureSuite
Web Systems Administrator at EarthLink

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Education

Brandeis University
Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies
Herzl School

Kiev Middle School #92

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Aleksey Tsalolikhin’s Summary

I specialize in high-traffic Web systems running on Solaris or Linux.

Seasoned as a sys admin at EarthLink during explosive growth from 1,000 to 1,000,000 users in 4 years. Helped build EarthLink's web hosting product line.

My areas of interest are infrastructure and personnel enhancement (training).

I can think with company goals; envision the ideal scene and move the existing scene towards it.

Experienced with both line and management work.

Aleksey Tsalolikhin’s Specialties:

High-transaction 24x7 multi-tiered Web systems running on Solaris or Linux. Infrastracture and personnel enhancement.

Aleksey Tsalolikhin’s Experience

Sr. UNIX/Linux System Administrator and Architect

Deluxe Digital Cinema

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Entertainment industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Establish infrastructure: backups, archiving, network architecture, DR, redundancy, source code and release management, configuration managment, monitoring -- all the usual -- plus herd the physical infrastructure (A/C, power). Supporting developers to the utmost. This is all for Deluxe's digital cinema information web site.
Unix/Linux Administrator

Deluxe

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DLX; Financial Services industry)

April 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 3 months)

Systems administrator responsible for a wide variety of Unix and Linux systems running Web applications and databases for a world-class movie film processor and printer, as well as its Web hosting systems (hosting major studio clients).

Provided Unix expertise in creation of Deluxe's Digital Cinema mastering and duplication lab.
Unix Systems Administrator

Aleksey Tsalolikhin Unix Sys Admin Consultant

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

November 2005 — March 2006 (5 months)

Performance tuning, infrastructure enhancement, special projects (data courier).
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator

EarthLink

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ELNK; Computer Software industry)

August 2001 — June 2003 (1 year 11 months)

Kept EarthLink's Internet services humming along as part of the night shift crew; and integrated new technology such as server load balancers and OmniSky wireless ASP platform.

Enhanced system administration infrastructure by identifying the most gross outpoints and fixing them (e.g. having a list of servers).

Assisted with recruitment and training.
UNIX Systems Administrator

InsureSuite

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Insurance industry)

August 2000 — June 2001 (11 months)

Created server platform for delivery of company's application and service. When company's second round of funding did not come through as scheduled, completed platform buildout on zero budget using old desktops and open-source operating systems and Web server and clustering software.
Web Systems Administrator

EarthLink

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ELNK; Computer Software industry)

1995 — 2000 (5 years )

Helped build EarthLink's Web hosting service:

* Established technical support for Web hosting, from complete zero (no support). Handled the work, established group, and trained a manager for it.

* Expanded Web services administration group (junior UNIX system administrators) from 2 to 6 people and started automating its processes. Headed the group and trained a new manager for it to replace self.

* Web systems administrator: created, grew, and destroyed Web hosting products. Administered UNIX systems providing Web hosting services.

Aleksey Tsalolikhin’s Education

Brandeis University

Biochemistry September 1993 — May 1995

Activities and Societies:

BURP! (Brandeis University Recycling Program!)
Biophysics Club
Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies

High School , September 1989 — May 1993
Herzl School

7th grade 1988 — 1989
Kiev Middle School #92

1982 — 1988

Additional Information

Aleksey Tsalolikhin’s Interests:

Documentation and Training; Automating Configuration Management; Performance Monitoring and Improvement.

Aleksey Tsalolikhin’s Groups:

Unix Users Association of Southern California (in 2001 presented on performance tuning Web servers; in 2009 was on Configuration Management panel)
Mensa
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Jewish Free Loan Association
The Way to Happiness Foundation
Association for Better Living and Education
International Association of Scientologists
Friends of the San Jacinto Mountains
Brandeis Alumni Association
Citizens Commission on Human Rights International
USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association (and the SAGE SIG)
Association for Computing Machinery
League of Professional System Administrators
Studio Sysadmins