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This sounds like a perfect fit job for my friend Peter Petrakis (CC'd). We went to school together and I know he has excellent low-level Linux kernel chops. He currently hardens I/O drivers for a well-known company in the area. He even worked at Alpha Linux back in the day before getting his degree, focusing on 64-bit issues. He has a BS in ECE and really knows his stuff. He rips through SCSI spec documents for breakfast ... seriously. One time I was at his apartment, which is my old apartment, and I stayed over night on the couch. I wake up and there is the dude stretched out in his easy chair chomping on some cereal while eyeing a 500 page bound ream of paper, heh. Definitely dedicated, can code circles around me in C, and thoroughly utilizes lxr/vim/meld/etc to get things done efficiently :-) Email me off-list if you want any more info. Regards... On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Charles C. Bennett, Jr. <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Pardon the intrusion... > > Two and half years ago Jesse Noller posted on this list looking for a > 'Linux Guy' for a startup in Waltham called 'Archivas'. Archivas makes > a clustered data archiving appliance which uses a group of Linux nodes > to make a high-availability spinning-disk WORM device. > > I became the Linux Guy at Archivas. The Linux Guy at Archivas is > responsible for providing the operating system and all the OS-to-App > glue used by the nodes. This has meant stripping down a stock Fedora > distro to the bare essentials, providing a custom unattended CDROM and > PXE installer (we dumped Anaconda early) and doing all of the code that > handles storage and network discovery and configuration, as well as all > of the init-script and log rotation noise you'd need on such an > application node. I also get to consult on 10,000 details on how we use > Linux for other things inside the shop. > > Last year Archivas was bought by Hitachi Data Systems and this OS is > finding its way into other product lines at Hitachi. It's grown to > support multipathed Fibre and iSCSI SAN with internode storage failovers > and fairly tight integration with enterprise SAN management tools, yada, > yada, yada. > > Although everybody here uses Linux on their desktop and there are a lot > of very talented engineers, most of them are Java jockeys working at the > application layer or Python people working test automation and have no > skill or interest in helping out with the increasing load of bringing > new features into the underlying platform. > > Being *the* Linux guy my work load is crushingly high. I need help. > Most recruiters are worse than useless in finding the kind of person we > need: Linux Chimera. Ideally someone interested in joining me would > have a skill mix similar to my own: > > - solid Linux sysadmin skills > - reasonable familiarity with GNU/Linux release engineering, like > RPM (rpmbuild, spec files, patching SRPMS, etc), yum, some autoconf > savvy and solid GNU make skills > - decent programming skills in at least two of bash, busybox ash, awk, > C and python > - knows how Fedora is put together from the initrd, sysfs, udev, > /etc/sysconfig level > - knows what to do with a modalias file in sysfs > - venerates Ken Thompson and views Linux through UNIX v7 glasses > > Pluses would include: > - SAN experience > - familiarity with dm-multipath > - familiarity with dm-crypt > - familiarity with OpenIPMI > - Voldemort-level python and GNU Make skills > - QEMU virtualization > - TUN/TAP VLAN routing for virtual machines > - some Perl > - deep (CDB/sgio-level) SCSI chops > - emacs, 'if( foo ) {', pepsi, cats, Paige, Python > > I would gladly take a Bill Nottingham or Jeremy Katz but they're kind of > busy. > > We're still in Waltham. We work hard and learn new stuff every day and > spend a lot of time drilling down on stuff that's not widely understood > in the Linux world (like SCSI persistent reservations on Multipath). We > pay real money and being a division of Hitachi Ltd. (Japan) we're going > to be here for a while. The original Archivas management is still here > and is very deft at preserving the 'startup' feel that many of us here > require to work happily. > > If this kind of gig interests you and you think you can come up to speed > quickly with the kinds of skills I need, reply to me directly and we'll > talk. > > Thanks, > ccb > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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