Nick Barkas

Current

• Infrastructure Engineer at Three Rings Design

Past

• Programmer/Analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• System Administrator at USDA Forest Service
• System Administrator at LiveJournal

• Technical Support, System Administrator at Speakeasy

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Education

• Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
• University of Washington

Connections

51 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Nick Barkas’s Summary

Sysadmin and software engineer skilled in designing, building, and maintaining complex Unix/Linux systems and networks, and the software that keeps them going. Particularly interested in development of backend and operating system software, open source projects, and high performance/scientific computing.

Nick Barkas’s Specialties:

FreeBSD, Linux, Perl, Python, Matlab, C, scientific computing, open source, server and networking hardware, system and network security, Unix infrastructure and server software

Nick Barkas’s Experience

• Infrastructure Engineer

  Three Rings Design

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

  April 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  Maintain ~50 FreeBSD servers, work on in-house developed backend software, contribute enhancements and bug fixes to FreeBSD and other open source projects.

• Programmer/Analyst

  Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  December 2005 — March 2006 (4 months)

  Perl software development, maintained a small computational cluster, and provided computing support to a small team of astrophysicists.

• System Administrator

  USDA Forest Service

  (Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

  May 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 8 months)

  Maintained a 20 node computational cluster, assisted scientists with meteorological modeling software, managed large amounts of storage.

• System Administrator

  LiveJournal

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2003 — February 2004 (7 months)

  Kept an ever-expanding network running to serve a large web site. Developed and maintained centralized logging and monitoring systems.

• Technical Support, System Administrator

  Speakeasy

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

  May 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 9 months)

  Telephone and email technical support initially. Later moved into network and system administration, maintaining ~50 Linux machines at remote data centers.

Nick Barkas’s Education

• Kungliga Tekniska högskolan

  MS, Scientific Computing, 2007 — 2009 (expected)

• University of Washington

  BS, Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences, 2000 — 2005

Additional Information

Nick Barkas’s Websites:

• My Website

Nick Barkas’s Interests:

Bicycling, travel, applied mathematics, open source software, video games, gadgets, surfing

Nick Barkas’s Groups:

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

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