San Francisco Bay Area
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Steve Kong’s Summary
Hard work, problem solving, fire fighting, team leading. That's me.
Steve Kong’s Specialties:
Linux, Unix, PHP, Perl, SQL, Networking, and Storage.
Steve Kong’s Experience
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Production Engineer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)
Production Engineer for Yahoo!. I am working in the Ad Systems group, helping to maintain the machines that make Yahoo! money -- approximately $1.5B+ annually. I spend my days working in FreeBSD and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I spend my time hacking at Perl and bash automating processes. I document processes and train team members on current systems. And I am part of a 24x7 pager rotation. I am currently administering clusters of high availability hosts that are spread around the world. Deployments to these clusters is part of my duties. Also, I work closely with the development team to find, debug and fix issues with the code that is being deployed. I work with the traffic management team to plan and maintain the global load-balancing for the graphical advertising group. I managed two direct reports.
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Software Engineer
Sony
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SNE; Computer Hardware industry)
November 2000 — June 2005 (4 years 8 months)
Supported the tape and storage group as a Software Engineer. Provided tools for a rollout of 2,000+ servers. Wrote the group scheduler, workflow manager, SCSI tape drive testing suite and other database tools in PHP, Perl and C. Worked extensively with ISV partners and supported tradeshows. Traveled extensively to meet with customers and ISV partners.
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System Administrator
National Nuclear Corporation
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1998 — January 2000 (2 years 1 month)
Their Windows NT 4.0 server needed wrangling, I was the wrangler. I also helped setup their email system using Red Hat Linux.
