CV below. Willing to consider support engineering positions if the company is good. Money isn't the number one priority.
================= Egor Shipovalov Tel.: +44 07780 211 416, +7 985 233 1841 E-mail: kogdaugo...@gmail.com LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/EgorShipovalov Homepage: http://shipovalov.com/ OBJECTIVE A London-based position in software development that will require accomplishing non-trivial tasks in modern OO Perl. SKILLS SUMMARY - 9-year experience with, in-depth knowledge of OO Perl. Experience in building large database-driven high-traffic web applications with Perl. - Excellent practical knowledge of mod_perl, HTML::Mason, Catalyst, Template Toolkit, DBI, DBIx::Class, LWP, SOAP::Lite, as well as other CPAN toolsets commonly used in development of Internet-enabled applications - Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS and usability-centered, standard-compliant web page authoring techniques. - Good knowledge of OO JavaScript and the AJAX technology. Experience of building large non-trivial AJAX web application using YUI singlehandedly. - Very good knowledge of SQL, ER-modelling and relational database design good practices. Expert knowledge of MySQL, good working knowledge of PostgreSQL. Basic knowledge of and hands-on experience with Oracle. - Solid Unix sysadmin skills, 10-year experience with Linux, good practical understanding of TCP/IP family of protocols. Practical knowledge of and experience with version control systems such as Subversion and CVS. - Broad professional outlook. Understanding of and adherence to good practices of software design, such as TDD. Emacs power user with working Elisp knowledge. - Fluency in English, experience as a professional translator. Able to communicate in writing in German or Spanish with a dictionary. Native speaker of Russian. RECENT WORK HISTORY November 2009 - Present: Perl Developer - self-employed Developed a series of OO Perl modules for Teapplix Inc. - a US company providing web-based tools to eBay power sellers. Wrote web services clients for FedEx and eBay using SOAP::Lite, LWP and XML::Simple, and integrated them wuth legacy code. Developed Apache authentication module in Perl to authenticate clients through eBay Selling Manager API. Created web services clients for APIs of e-commerce platforms such as Infopia and ChannelAdvisor. November 2008 - November 2009: Perl Developer - Rambler Internet Holding Developed software for a public free email service serving more than five millions of active subscribers. Added new functionality, refactored legacy code, made performance improvements. Created a new system for deploying updates to the cluster consisting of more than 50 servers. Enhanced centralized authentication system used commonly by more than fifteen different high-traffic websites owned by the Holding. March 2007 - November 2008: Perl Developer - Inline Telecom Solutions Participated in development of BillMaster - billing software for telecom operators, sold internationally. Wrote OO Perl and Oracle PL/SQL, implementing complex business logic and hardware-specific network protocols. Created a separate application using Catalyst for on-demand authentication using Cisco RADIUS servers which was then heavily used by several medium-sized Internet providers across the country. April 2003 - March 2007: Software developer - self-employed Executed more than a 100 of telecommute programming projects, mostly in Perl, for English-speaking customers accross the World. More information available upon request. EDUCATION 2009 - present: University of London External System, dept. of Philosophy. 1999 - 2001: Postgraduate at Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow. Unfinished. 1992 - 1999: Russian State University for the Humanities. Completed higher education (5-year degree) in Information Tecnologies. IMMIGRATION STATUS Citizen and resident of Russian Federation currently visiting London. The employer will have to sponsor a work permit under the terms for Tier 2. PERSONAL PROFILE 35 y.o., single, without children. Interests: philosophy, foreign languages, performance driving, playing ice hockey.