Jason Dusek

Current

• Independent Consultant at (self employed)

Past

• Software Engineer at Metascopic
• Software Engineer at Mobile Greetings, Inc.
• Scientific Programmer at University of Iowa

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Education

• University of Iowa

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Industry

Computer Software

Jason Dusek’s Summary

Software engineer with experience in scientific programming & system administration.

Jason Dusek’s Specialties:

System Administration -- FreeBSD, Linux & AWS

Programming Languages -- Python, Haskell, Bourne Shell, Sed

Network Services -- LDAP, Apache, Subversion

Jason Dusek’s Experience

• Independent Consultant

  (self employed)

  (Internet industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  Handle client concerns about security and availability.
  Translate business goals into engineering objectives.

• Software Engineer

  Metascopic

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  August 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  Managed transition to Google Apps for email and calendaring.
  
  Deployed custom Gentoo system to EC2, and manage all development support software -- Subversion, Trac, OpenLDAP, &c. -- on these systems.
  
  Deployed OpenLDAP for identity management across all machines.
  
  Developed database proxy in Python to manage hundreds of SQLite connections in support of GUI developer's Adobe AIR application.
  
  Wrote internal photo index processing applications in Haskell, delivered to Linux, OS X and Windows.

• Software Engineer

  Mobile Greetings, Inc.

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

  June 2006 — January 2007 (8 months)

  Establish release engineering procedures for PHP developers.
  
  Wrote Ruby on Rails application to syndicate news in support of Adobe's FlashCAST.
  
  Managed transition of developers and QA staff from CVS to Subversion.
  
  Budget IT expenditures on a quarterly basis.

• Scientific Programmer

  University of Iowa

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  August 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 2 months)

  Server deployment, document management and statistical analysis of satellite data.

Jason Dusek’s Education

• University of Iowa

  Incomplete , Physics/CS , 2001 — 2004

  My Physics/CS study was oriented toward numerical computation. My electives were mostly Sinological in nature -- Chinese language, Chinese historical phonology.

  Activities and Societies:

  President of Chen Taiji Society

Additional Information

Jason Dusek’s Interests:

Eating out, Folklore, Cooking, Distributed Systems & Functional Programming

Jason Dusek’s Groups:

USENIX, SAGE, CUESA

•    RSA Conference
•    USENIX Association
•    SAGE: The USENIX SIG for Sysadmins

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