Yvan Seth

Goal

As a software developer and technology enthusiast I desire to work on the kinds of projects I'm proud to tell my friends about. Different, interesting, and most of all appreciated by real people.

Employment History

• Software Engineer

  September 2008 - October 2013 (5 years & 1 month)
  Riverbed Technology (formerly Zeus Technology)

  Cambridge, United Kingdom

  I joined a team of just 10 engineers at Zeus Technology in 2008. Since then I have experienced the success and growth of the company, through to the point where we were acquired by Riverbed Technology in 2010. Our growth as a business unit of Riverbed has continued bringing with it new challenges in organising teams and infrastructure.

  • Building on an established product with extensive C++ and PERL codebases. Designing, implementing, and maintaining features from the core dataplane and network protocol level through to HTML/CSS/JS UI elements.
  • Being part of a core team trying to maintain and scale infrastructure from a local 10-developer team, to a distributed 30-developer team and beyond. Experience in virtualising infrastructure accross both Linux and Solaris-based environments.

• Security Applications Engineer

  June 2006 - September 2008 (2 years & 2 months)
  Sensory Networks, Inc. EMEA Office

  London, United Kingdom

  After transferring to the Sensory Networks EMEA office from Australia I took on more responsibility for customer projects and communications. Beyond day to day internal R&D my experience in this role includes:

  • Co-ordinating inter-company design, development, and integration efforts with a variety of customers throughout the EMEA region.
  • Demonstrating and discussing technology with engineering and management staff at customer sites, including preparing and presenting technical reports for customer management and executives.
  • R&D on secondment to a leading antivirus company, culminating in the deployment of process and effectiveness improvements.

• Software Engineer

  December 2003 - June 2006 (2 years & 6 months)
  Sensory Networks, Inc. R&D Laboratory

  Sydney, Australia

  As a Software Engineer I worked on a variety of projects ranging from basic demo applications to API design and implementation. Highlights from my time in this role include:

  • Managed and implemented the company's first successful customer integration project, this customer went on to become the company's largest.
  • Selected for a 6 month research role working at a customer site in the UK. My work representing Sensory Networks at this leading antivirus company led to my promotion to a full time position with the EMEA office.

• Intern

  May 2003 - December 2003 (6 months, casual)
  Sensory Networks

  Sydney, Australia
  • Solely responsible for building the growing company's IT infrastructure, covering both internal and external services and offices in Australia and the US.

• Research Assistant

  June 2003 - December 2003 (6 months, part-time)
  Smart Internet Technologies Research Group
  School of Information Technologies
  University of Sydney
  

  Sydney, Australia
  • Worked on a variety of technical and software development projects.

• Tutor

  March 2000 - June 2003 (7 semesters)
  School of Information Technologies
  University of Sydney
  

  Sydney, Australia
  • Seven semesters of teaching both theory and practical computer science classes at early and advanced levels.

Technical Experience

I believe that software developers must be able to adapt quickly, constantly acquiring new skills. I make an effort to experience new programming languages, systems, and theories as my personal and work timetables allow. This list enumerates technologies I've worked with in a non-trivial way within the last twelve months. Consider it the "keyword bingo" section.

• Languages: C, C++, ECMA/JavaScript, Perl, Python, sh/bash
• Source Management: Perforce, CVS & SVN in the past
• Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris (including SmartOS), unavoidable Windows Server experience
• Protocols: HTTP, SPDY, FTP, SIP (a little), a lot of general TCP/IP and networking.
• Administration: Apache2, Nginx, Bind9, DNSMasq, Courier-IMAP, MySQL, Postfix, PostgreSQL
• Network Load Balancing — especially Stingray Traffic Manager

I'm keen to explore new technologies outside of the above list. I've toyed with Haskell, Erlang, and Ruby and also used both git and mercurial in a personal capacity.

Qualifications

• Memberships & Certifications

  • Certified, SANS SSI GIAC Secure Software Programmer - C (GSSP-C)
  • Member, ACM

• Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology

  Graduation: June 2003
  School of Information Technologies
  University of Sydney

  Sydney, Australia
  • Awarded a 2002/2003 computer science summer project scholarship.
  • Involved in Computer Science Undergraduates Society in several roles including president.

• Higher School Certificate

  Graduation: 1997
  Hale School

  Perth, Western Australia

Referees

• Referees are available upon request.