Curriculum Vitae - UNIX, network and system developer

Adi Stav

9 Yosef Ha-Nasi st., Tel Aviv
Tel: +972-2-5709543, +972-52-3514449
Email: adi@stav.org.il
Date of Birth: July 10th, 1978
ID Number: 035781509
http://adi.stav.org.il/cv

I have over six years of experience developing UNIX and networking products, particularly in the areas of Open Source and Free Software integration, security, cryptography, network analysis, and Linux embedded software, in both team-wide and individual projects. I have gathered most of my experience prior to enrolling in any formal education; however, I completed my B.Sc. studies in July, 2006.
I am now interested in developing my skills so that they cover more varied technologies and technological fields, and a wider responsibility in the development group.
I am focused on leveraging my skills, both current and future, in making a significant contribution to a technological development effort so that it has long-lasting and global impact.

Natural Languages:

Hebrew: mother tongue.
English: mother tongue level.

Education:

2003-2006 - A student of Computer Science in Tel Aviv University, Israel.

1995-1997 - Israeli external Bagrut high school graduation certificate with five points in: Physics, Mathematics, English.

Job Experience:

August 2003 - now - Work in a start-up specializing in application- level IDS and firewall systems (part time until July 2006; full time since).

Design and development of a passive SSL sniffer capable of decrypting the encrypted network traffic using its own version of an SSL stack and working in a multi-threaded, embedded NT-based environment, and capable of detecting a wide variery of SSL-based attacks.
Designing, participating in the development of, and providing ongoing technical guidance for a company-wide porting effort of all products from Windows NT to GNU/Linux.
Participating in the development, debugging, and design of features in a multi-threaded, multi-tier, application security product.

August 2000 - April 2003 - Work in Mercury Interactive Corporation, participating in the development and support of "Topaz Prism," an APM (Application Performance Monitoring) passive TCP/IP, HTTP and HTTPS network traffic performance analyzing product working in a Solaris/Linux environment. My roles and responsibilities in developing the aforementioned product included inter alia:

Design, implementation and maintenance of passive, on-line decryption code of captured SSL network traffic, and reporting of the performance characteristics and impact of the SSL layer on the user experience.
Optimization of network (TCP/IP and HTTP) traffic performance analysis design, algorithms, and C source code implementation in a high-performance, near-real-time, multi-threaded environment.
Maintenance and responsibility for the continuing design and maintenance of TCP/IP and HTTP performance analysis code.
Development and maintenance of product-wide infrastructure libraries in C and C++. Maintenance of an underlying multi-peer communication system for a multi-process, multi-machine, heterogeneous UNIX networked application.
Product integration and development of preinstalled, preconfigured and secured UNIX and Linux machines, including integration scripts and utilities in UNIX shell and C.
Source code-level integration with the OpenSSL library and code base, including detection and fixing of bugs and security vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL code base (contributed to the OpenSSL project.)
Responsibility for product security issues.
Participation in product-wide design and planning with reference to issues such as user model, marketability, and integration with and complementing other Mercury products.

February 2000 - August 2000 - Focus on technical intelligence and research in Aduva, Inc., a startup (since sold to Sun Microsystems) developing an automated system for configuration and installation for Linux desktop systems. My core duties included:

Ongoing research of technical and commercial trends in the Linux and Open Source software and hardware world.
Evaluating various Linux programs in order to determine their direct value and indirect technical value to consumers, to decide the level of support needed for their installation and configuration.
Research programs for problematic interdependencies and potential installation difficulties.
Technical writing for a wide variety of supported software packages.

March 1997 to February 2000 - Compulsory military service in the Erez Border Crosspoint Security Unit and responsibility for computer systems in Northern Regiment, Gaza Strip. My main functions were as follows:

PC hardware and software technician
Handling hardware and software problems
Tutoring users and technical support for MS-Windows / MS-Office and Macintosh systems.

Computer Background:

Thorough knowledge in Linux applications, social, commercial and technical environment. Experience and involvement in the GNU/Linux technical environment and community since 1996.
Intimate knowledge and experience with the SSL and TLS protocols, in both de-jure and de-facto protocol standards.
Thorough knowledge ("language lawyer") and experience with C, C++, UNIX shell.
Thorough knowledge and experience with the TCP/IP and HTTP network protocols implementation
Thorough knowledge and experience with the OpenSSL code base, and some familiarity with other (NSS, GNU-TLS) SSL stacks and the PKCS #11 standard
Thorough knowledge and experience with UNIX and network programming, multi-threaded programming, high-availability, high-performance and real-time-like applications.
Knowledge and experience with UNIX and Linux administration, particularly network administration and security.
Familiarity with Java, Perl, Python
Familiarity and knowledge in Linux system programming.
Ability for rapid self-learning and prototyping.

References:

Available upon request.