Maxim Rudensky

Skills

• Programming Languages: C/C++, Pascal, Perl, Intel x86 Assembly
• Development tools: MS Visual C++ 6.0/7.0, GCC, CVS, make, autoconf/automake, gdb/ddd
• Operating Systems: Linux (since 1998, before it became trendy), *nix, WinNT/2K

Goals

• Obtain H1B american visa (or its Western Europe analog) and get a system architect/analyst/senior developer position in american/european IT company, with further grow ability
• Achieve financial freedom, invest money and enjoy the rest of life. Probably relocate to more interesting place.

Projects

• Weather import daemon
  UNIX daemon written in pure C. The goal is to import data feed provided in two file formats -- WRF and NetCDF, into MySQL database. The data is divided into datasets (a set of files which makes a consistent forecast for the nearest future). The forecast is given in the high resolution (1 sq.km for all North America) with time interval 15 mins (precipitation forecast) and 1 hour (weather condition forecast) for the 6 hours deep in the future. The high space and time resolution adds specifics to the database design because of the huge amount of data.
  The daemon polls the directories, scans for files, decodes it, imports into MySQL database. Filename patterns, timeouts, MySQL info etc is stored in the .ini-style config file (using g_key_file*() from GLib library)
  Currently works under Linux, but was written with common UNIX portability in mind. Dev.tools: GCC, make. I also designed MySQL schema for this task.
  Libraries & technologies: WRF, NetCDF, GLib; UNIX syscalls
  Employer: Gabelnat Inc., Canada (will provide reference upon request)
• Weather forecast server
  UNIX daemon written in pure C. It communicates with the taskbar client by a simple protocol. The protocol includes: authentication, preferred locations query, temperature & weather update query, ping, logout. TCP params (# of connections, # of conns per IP etc), timeouts, MySQL info etc is stored in the .ini-style config file (using g_key_file*() from GLib library)
  The server is implemented as a threaded program (one thread per connection + main controlling thread). Currently works under Linux, but was written with common UNIX portability in mind. Dev.tools: GCC, make.
  Libraries & technologies: BSD sockets, GLib, UNIX syscalls, pthreads
  Employer: Gabelnat Inc., Canada (will provide reference upon request)
• OL Browser
  Web browser that uses MFC's browser class. It can be minimized to a tray (this is actually why it was written - cause IE neither other browsers can do that :-)
  Demo version exits after a random time (around 10-15 mins).
  olbrowser_demo.exe
  Dev.tools: MSVC++/MFC
• GNUitar
  Guitar processor software for *nix and Windows with GTK+ interface. Allows to use your PC as guitar processor; applies different effects in real-time, that are reverberator, flanger/chorus, distortion, phasor, wah-wah, sustain, equalizer, noise reduction etc. Multi-threaded.
  Freshmeat: http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/gnuitar
  SourceForge: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gnuitar
  Dev.tools: GNU C, autoconf, automake, MS Visual Studio 6.0/7.0
  NOTE: btw in the google top 10 by "guitar processor software" - Apr 2005
• CyberGamingArena
  A game launching daemon. The purpose of this project is to create a distributed game network that allows members to launch a game servers (Quake III for example) and control them. This is achieved by running a specially designed daemon on each host in the game network. The system is in fact a heterogeneous cluster, and can be modified to launch any application on any host.
  Key features:
  • cross-platform: available on Linux and Windows 2000
  • multi-threaded on Windows, multi-process on Linux
  • uses mysql backend to collect and store various info
  • implements specially designed proprietary protocols to pass control messages between hosts
  • load balancing engine and built-in load monitoring
  • creating the game config files prior to the game launch
  • billing (decrease the users' balance) in real time
  • chat rooms and lobbies
  • querying the game servers about stats (like the QStat does)
  • monitor network bandwidth using Linux IPTables
  • log files

  My duties in this large project were:
  - development coordination
  - architectal concept
  - database design
  - creating the protocols for daemon intercommunication
  - development of the daemon
  - development of the web admin area (with lots of config tools)
  - development of the web user area (reg.form, some stats, balance replenishment form)
  

  For information, there is also a client part - to create a clientside app. similar to the GameSpy Arcade, with game rooms, lobbies etc.
  Tools and languages: C (without ++), MS Visual C++ 6.0/7.0, GCC, autoconf/automake/make, rpm .spec package file, getopt library, MySQL, PHP (web pages), Perl (misc scripts)

• my2pg (http://www.omnistaronline.com/~fonin/downloads.php#my2pg)
  MySQL to Postgres (http://www.postgresql.org) dump conversion tool. Written in Perl. Since version 7.1b5 it is a part of Postgres distribution (can be found in contrib/mysql). Freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/my2pg.
  Languages: Perl
• SVEA
  Game for a gambling machine. 27000 lines.
  Duties: Game scenario implementation; copy protection system; authentication system
  Dev.tools: Borland Pascal 7.0, MS DOS 6.22 platform, x86 Assembler.
  Visit my homepage to see screenshots, code samples

References

Provided upon request; to protect peoples' privacy, I do not publish their names, addresses, or phone numbers online.

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