Yvan Seth

This document from 2014 is in the process of being updated.

Goal

I am aiming to return to a Linux/Unix based IT/software role with a desire to work on software and systems that tangibly help people in the real world. Given my broad experience I'm open to roles in new and small businesses which could also use my business management experience. I have extensive remote-work and distributed-team experience, and I am primarily looking to work remotely from my rural Norfolk location, but have a car and can travel on a regular basis where in person time/meetings are required.

Employment History

• Business Partner — Public House

  October 2020 - August 2014 (3 years & 10 month)
  The Radegund / "Rad"

  Cambridge, United Kingdom

  In the end this was mostly a renovation project as alas due to debts from the COVID period and building works and the continued difficult trading conditions for the hospitality industry we shut down in October 2024 after only 6 months trading. (I could probably write a book about this.)

  • Managed all elements of an extensive building renovation from basic structural repairs through to fittings and finishings.
  • Design of full building rewire, customised lighting, and networked mains power control systems.
  • Bringing building up to relevant building control standards, especially in terms of insulation and fire safety.

• Business Owner — Beer Wholesale

  April 2014 - August 2014 (10 years & 5 month)
  Jolly Good Beer

  Cambs/Norfolk, United Kingdom

  In 2014 I started a beer wholesale business, just me, a van, and a refrigerated shipping container based near Cambridge. We supplied beer from independent microbreweries and similar producers to pubs, bars, and shops throughout — at peak — East Anglia, the Midlands, London, Home Counties, South East, and even up into the M62 corridor.

  • From the IT side, in this business we ran our own infrastructure including hosting our Wordpress/WooCommerce website which we heavily modified to operate as a beer wholesale portal.
  • Managed a business from the scale of just myself as sole employee to a team of 14 people spanning sales, procurement, and logistics roles with a chilled warehouse in Norfolk and a fleet of 4 vans and 2 HGVs.
  • I achieved a handful of relevant industry qualifications including the NCCSIM cellar/dispense certificate and developed an additional facet of the business doing high-quality cellar installations including for key brewers such as Cloudwater and DEYA.
  • In April 2023 the business was sold as a going concern to to DrinkFresh LTD, I was retained in a role of Operations Manager until the business entered administration in August 2024.
  • This period gives me a strong grounding in all aspects of small business management: day to day finances, cashflow, team management, and the basic realities of running a SMB in the UK.

• 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, subsequently experiencing the success and growth of the company through to its acquisition by Riverbed Technology in 2010. Our growth as a business unit of Riverbed 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 maintaining and scaling infrastructure from a local 10-developer team, to an internationally distributed 30+ developer team.
  • Experience in repackaging the product across a variety of virtualisation platforms as the industry shifted from from physical appliances to a virtualised offering.
  • Selected for a three month integration project based in New Zealand, where we worked on merging a complete application layer product into our network load balancer software.

• 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
  Basser Department of Computer Science (now the School of Computer Science), University of Sydney
  

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

• Tutor

  March 2000 - June 2003 (7 semesters)
  Basser Department of Computer Science (now the School of Computer Science), 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, plus any I need to learn
• Source Management: Perforce, CVS, SVN — well grounded in source control practices and concepts
• Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris (including SmartOS), other Unix-like systems including BSD
• Protocols: HTTP, SPDYHTTP/2, FTP, SMTP, SIP (a little), a lot of general TCP/IP and networking including SSL/STARTTLS/X.509
• 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
  Basser Department of Computer Science (now the School of Computer Science), 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.