Dan Ros

Current

• Web Infrastructure Specialist (contracting) at ARM
• Developer at ApplianSys
• Director at Omnicea Ltd

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Past

• 3rd Line Support/Administrator at Nildram

Education

• University of Wales, Aberystwyth

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Dan Ros’s Summary

• A broad IT skillset, from end-user interface design to wide area networks, to systems development and administration
• Experience with startup/early-stage organisations
• High level of interpersonal skills and training potential

Dan Ros’s Specialties:

• Python expert level (distributed systems, Pyro, Web toolkits)
• GNU/Linux (networking, system administration, development)
• Web development (AJAX technologies, SEO, usability)
• Collaboration (Trac, SVN, agile development)

Dan Ros’s Experience

• Web Infrastructure Specialist (contracting)

  ARM

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ARMHY; Semiconductors industry)

  April 2008 — Present (4 months)

  I have been working with ARM in Cambridge on a web infrastructure project involving several technologies.
  
  Technologies involved: Trac, Django, Apache, MySQL, Python, PHP, Perl, SVN, DAV and others.
  
  The task is to bring the existing complex web application from a proof of concept beta to a live site and responsibilities include:
  
  * Anticipation of scalability issues
  * Capacity planning and load estimation
  * Redesign the system architecture as needed to mitigate scaling issues
  * Add several new features

• Developer

  ApplianSys

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  • Python development of server appliance framework (TurboGears, CherryPy, Formencode, Genshi templates, Pyro, Linux, bash, Sqlite)
  • Agile development, prototyping, SVN, Iteration model, Unit testing, collaboration
  • BASH scripting, PHP development, C debugging, Linux kernel level debugging/configuration, build systems
  • Troubleshooting complex systems

• Director

  Omnicea Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2005 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Co-founder of this Spinout technology startup. Undertook web development projects for London-based multinational before obtaining £30k EU Objective One funding to develop Asterisk-based VoIP PBX appliance.
  
  Co-developed a successful product which is in the process of integration with the service offering of a major UK VoIP provider.
  
  Negotiated contract with major UK ISP, Produced high quality marketing collateral. Take care of business accounting, including self-administered VAT.

• 3rd Line Support/Administrator

  Nildram

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2003 — July 2004 (11 months)

  • Technical liason between internal departments and high profile business clients
  • Able to cope with high pressure fault diagnosis, damage limitation and resolution/post-mortem
  • Able to propose, plan and implement improvements and solutions to problems
  • Administration of mail server handling over 1 million outbound mails daily
  • Production use and administration of mission-critial installations of FreeBSD, Postfix, Cyclone NNTP, Cisco routers, MySQL and Apache

Dan Ros’s Education

• University of Wales, Aberystwyth

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