Moinak Ghosh

Current

• Senior Technology Analyst (VP) at Goldman Sachs

Past

• *NIX Geek at SUN Microsystems
• Member Tech Staff, Lead Engineer at HCL - Cisco Offshore Development Center
• Software Engineer at Binary Fusion Intl.

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Education

• University Of Calcutta

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• BeleniX Project
• My Older Blog

Moinak Ghosh’s Summary

I hacked on the BBC Microcomputer and subsequently the IBM PC-AT during the early 90's writing lots of utilities , games etc. My MOM worked at the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum at Calcutta and had instilled in me a deep love for science. The Museum's hallowed premises was my playground as I grew up. The Museum also started a Computer Club in 1990 where began my passion for computing.

I participated in the Software Competition in 1990 and '91 at the Museum and came 1st and 2nd respectively. Subsequently I delved into DOS internals and almost wrote a DOS Extender. I also worked on multimedia educational software for a while on Windows 3.1, 95 etc on Delphi.

My first job in '95 involved working on ORACLE: PL/SQL programming, Developer 2000(ugh!), schema design, query optimization.
I joined HCL - Cisco 1 year later where I was exposed to Solaris and fabulous 21' Tektronix X-Terminals. I messed around with Cisco switches and routers and configured almost every routing protocol in existence on IOS.

At HCL - Cisco I worked on Network Test Tool development, Emulation. Later I moved to Network Management Group working on a Management Appliance Project. I was also designing the Security Services Framework for the appliance.

I joined SUN Microsystems in Aug 2003. This was a job that I had always wanted as my real interest is in Systems. In the Solaris Sustaining team, I have worked on utilities, libraries and recently hacking around with the kernel.

I am also involved a lot with OpenSolaris activities and started the BeleniX community project (http://www.belenix.org/) in August of 2005. I have introduced several new technologies via the BeleniX LiveCD and it has become quite popular.

I was also involved with SUN's Project Indiana during the initial 9 months of it's development. My work on developing various technologies for BeleniX and subsequent work in the Indiana project formed the foundation of project Indiana.

Moinak Ghosh’s Specialties:

Operating Systems (Filesystems, I/O, libraries, utilities), Unix and C, OS Distributions, scripting languages, Multithreaded design

Moinak Ghosh’s Experience

• Senior Technology Analyst (VP)

  Goldman Sachs

  (Public Company; GS; Investment Banking industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  A senior member in the Computing Platform Engineering team working on performance engineering of systems and apps on Solaris 10 x86/SPARC platforms.

• *NIX Geek

  SUN Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2003 — May 2008 (4 years 10 months)

  Working on Operating Systems technologies in Solaris/OpenSolaris. Involved in a variety of activities:
  Sustaining the Solaris OS.
  OpenSolaris Community Involvement.
  New features and Projects on OpenSolaris.

• Member Tech Staff, Lead Engineer

  HCL - Cisco Offshore Development Center

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 1998 — July 2003 (5 years 7 months)

  Worked in the networking domain on a variety of technologies including, Network Test Tooling and Emulation, Routing, Network Management, Network Security on a variety of Cisco platforms and systems.

• Software Engineer

  Binary Fusion Intl.

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

  June 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 7 months)

  Working on Applications Software on FoxPro and ORACLE. DB Schema design, query optimization, data migration from legacy systems. PL/SQL, FoxPro, Developer 2000, Delphi, VC++.

Moinak Ghosh’s Education

• University Of Calcutta

  BSc. , Geo Sciences , 1993 — 1995

  My love life with silicon began in 1990 when I was introduced to the amazing BBC Microcomputer (Motorola 6502). It continues today. Even though my field of study was very different I decided to switch lanes after graduating and did a masters diploma course on advanced computing.

Additional Information

Moinak Ghosh’s Websites:

• My Blog
• BeleniX Project
• My Older Blog

Moinak Ghosh’s Interests:

Science and Techology (Bio Sc., Geo Sc., Cosmology, Technology). Reading Thrillers, Sci Fi and Ghost Stories. Pop and Classical Instrumental Music Freaking out with Silicon

Moinak Ghosh’s Groups:

•    OSUNIX

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