Vitaly Kushner

Current

• Founder at Astrails

Past

• Director of Engineering at BitWine Inc.
• Software Engineer at ScaleMP
• Senior Software Engineer at Jungo LTD

• Senior software engineer at PassCall Advanced Technologies
• Senior software engineer at EverAd Ltd.
• Software Engineer at Bpath Ltd. (Hyperbanner)
• Software Engineer at NetManage Inc.

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Vitaly Kushner’s Summary

I've done it all at one time or another.
Programming professionally since 1992.
Current area of expertise is 'all things internet' with latest focus on Ruby on Rails, Linux, deployment/operations and scaling.

Founded a consulting company with a couple of friends.

Vitaly Kushner’s Specialties:

Preferred 'weapons': Linux, MySQL, Ruby on Rails
But also worked with Asm (x86/Arm/MIPS), Pascal, Java, C++, C, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Lisp, Erlang, Haskel
Experience in security, networks, Linux (from kernel drivers to administration), databases, embedded/real time (Linux, Windriver),
web standards, REST, SEO.
*proper* production deployment, scalability and performance.

Bring it on, it is a very good chance I can help you with whatever you are doing right now.

Vitaly Kushner’s Experience

• Founder

  Astrails

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

  We can help you with:
  rapid prototyping
  product design and architecture
  code review and refactoring
  deployment and scalability
  usability assessment
  Ruby and Rails tutoring
  product development from idea to a working site
  making a strategic decision whether ruby/rails is your cup of beer :)
  general all around consulting
  making the sun rise

• Director of Engineering

  BitWine Inc.

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

  August 2005 — October 2008 (3 years 3 months)

  With the company from the day 0.
  Designed and implemented the original proof of concept server and sizable parts of the production server.
  Designed and implemented the company IT infrastructure, deployment etc.
  Lead the R&D of the company from the idea to the live site with tens of thousands of users. Intimately involved with anything and everything R&D/IT related.

• Software Engineer

  ScaleMP

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 2 months)

• Senior Software Engineer

  Jungo LTD

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  September 2001 — June 2005 (3 years 10 months)

  - Platforms team: BSP and driver development for Linux,
  - Tools team: Automation tools development,
  multiarch toolchains, automated regression testing system

• Senior software engineer

  PassCall Advanced Technologies

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2001 — September 2001 (less than a year)

  Development of fast IPC library.
  Development of Automated Regression Testing Server

• Senior software engineer

  EverAd Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

  Desktop Team: OCX, MediaPlayer DirectShow plugins, inhouse common libraries, Multimedia visualization components for PlayJ.

• Software Engineer

  Bpath Ltd. (Hyperbanner)

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

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

  (Re) Implemented the company's core banner serving server,
  drastically improving performance & reducing memory footprint.

• Software Engineer

  NetManage Inc.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; NETM; Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years)

  Emerging Technologies Team:
  = Next generation ZMail
  - designed and implemented user management, plugin management, and secure hierarchical data management components in C++
  
  = Java application server and framework for internal distributed applications.
  - designed and implemented library for 'C++ to Java' object oriented communication (DDL->C++/Java compiler in Python)

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