Olivier Tharan

Current

• Site Reliability Engineer at Google, Inc.

Past

• Ingénieur systèmes et réseaux at Institut Pasteur
• Ingénieur développeur at IDEALX, SAS
• contractor at LibertySurf

• Contractor at Cegetel

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Education

• Institut National des Télécommunications

Connections

257 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Olivier Tharan’s Summary

Level 4 systems administrator at Google; working on virtualization software and managing clusters (code.google.com/p/ganeti); dealing with oncall duty and second-tier user support. Previously worked on internal storage systems.

Managed Unix systems and network at Pasteur Institute (biological private research institute); everything from user accounts, email service, internal and external web services, user helpdesk, etc.

Managed email services at ISDNet (now part of Cable&Wireless) during a contract.

Developed some parts of a user management system in Perl at Cegetel.

Managed various parts of Chez.com, a massive free webpages hosting service (now part of Tiscali).

My goal is to manage big Unix systems on a TCP/IP network. Playing a major part on the Internet is a preference.

Olivier Tharan’s Specialties:

Unix server administration and architecture, network management

Olivier Tharan’s Experience

• Site Reliability Engineer

  Google, Inc.

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  July 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)

  Systems administrator for Google's corporate network, working on storage systems and cluster management.

• Ingénieur systèmes et réseaux

  Institut Pasteur

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  August 2002 — July 2004 (2 years)

  Systems and network administrator for Institut Pasteur (biological and medical research), doing everything from network troubleshooting and planning, Unix computer installation and maintenance, application services architecture, installation and maintenance - especially all network- and Internet-related software (email, web being the most proeminent).

• Ingénieur développeur

  IDEALX, SAS

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

  July 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 2 months)

  Contractor on projects being developed for customers; Linux systems administrator on small and bigger projects; junior Perl developer
  
  Major feats: contract with the Chez.com web hosting platform as a Linux administrator; contract with Cegetel doing Perl development on a hosting project; releasing a documentation on a secure CVS server with separate privileges.

• contractor

  LibertySurf

  (Internet industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

• Contractor

  Cegetel

  (Internet industry)

  2001 — 2001 (less than a year)

Olivier Tharan’s Education

• Institut National des Télécommunications

  Network Engineering, Economics, Finance September 1995 — June 1998

  Activities and Societies:

  Active member and president of the students computer association (Minet : http://www.minet.net/)

Additional Information

Olivier Tharan’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Olivier Tharan’s Groups:

LOPSA

•    MiNET

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