Shlomi Fish's Resume

Shlomi Fish
4 Hakim Eliyaho St.
Tel Aviv, 69120
Phone Number: 03-6424668
Cell Phone: 054-6232377
Fax Number: 03-6414319
E-mail Address: shlomif@iglu.org.il
Home Page: http://www.shlomifish.org/
Instant Messaging: ICQ - #207733823; AIM - ShlomiFish; Jabber - ShlomiFish@jabber.org ; MSN - shlomif@iglu.org.il

Education

1997 - 2004
The Technion
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Proper)
Average: 84.6% (Cum Laude)
1991-1995 Gymnasia Ivrit "Herzlia"
Major Subjects: Mathematics, English, Physics and Arabic

Experience

Programming - at Workplaces

2008 (for 4 months)

Emoze.com (Part of Emblaze)
Linux C++/Server Developer

Porting a C++ server application from Win32 to Linux.

Worked on a server for push-E-mail (to cellphones), which needed porting from Win32 to Linux. Technologies used were: gcc/g++, vim, libcurl, GNU make, Ubuntu Linux, Perl and others.

2007 (for 3 months)

Tehuti Networks
Linux Kernel Developer and Tester

Linux kernel development and QA engineering for a 10 Gbps Ethernet card that Tehuti develops. Specialised in testing the card under VMWare ESX and Xen Enterprise. Coded using Perl and ANSI C.

January 1997 - October 1997

Smart Link Ltd.
Programmer and Tester

Testing a software-based modem (Modio), Windows 95 Programming. Manual testing of a soft-modem. Writing test procedures. Programming various utilities in Visual C++, MFC, and Perl.

April 1996 - October 1996

Cortext Inc.
Programmer, WWW Site Maintainer, Limited UNIX Maintenance

HTML composition, CGI programming, TCP/IP client/server programs.

Worked with Perl 5, various UNIX flavours (FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS 4.1.3), and several Windows 95 workstations. Did web development using HTML, Perl and UNIX.

June 1995 - March 1996

Elpas Electro-optic Systems, Ltd.
Chief Programmer of EIRIS (Elpas Infra-Red Identification System)

Databases, client/server programs (with NetDDE), English/Hebrew MS-Windows GUI

Programmed using C and C++ on Windows 3.11. Experienced with networking, SQL, databases, ODBC, NETDDD, Borland C++ 4.5 and MSDN.

Programming - Open Source Projects

2007 XML::RSS
Work on the CPAN Perl Module for processing RSS: bug fixing (while adding regression tests), increasing test coverage, and refactoring. Some of it was done as part of a grant from The Perl Foundation.
2004 HTML-Widgets-NavMenu
A Perl Module for maintaining HTML navigation menus and site flow.
2003 The Better SCM Site - http://better-scm.berlios.de/
A web-site for information and advocacy of version control systems and Source Configuration Management (SCM). Includes articles, links and a multiple-item multiple-system comparison of 16 different implementations.
2002-Present Contribution to large-scale open source projects (GIMP, Subversion and perl).
Code contribution to the Subversion version control system; large-scale code contribution to the GIMP image manipulation program; contribution of documentation and external modules to the Perl programming language.
2001 - Present Latemp - a Content Management System for Static HTML Sites.
A content management system based on Website Meta Language and many Perl CPAN modules, intended primarily for constructing static HTML pages.

2000

Freecell Solver
Main Programmer

A C program that automatically solves games of Freecell and similar variants of card solitaire.

1997

MikMod for Java
Programmer

Converting a program from ANSI C to Java

Communal and Personal

2001 - Present

The Israeli Group of Linux Users Server
Co-Administrator

Administrating a 100% uptime server carrying FTP, SMTP and numerous WWW-services.

Mathematics

1994 1st place, first Annual Israel's Mathematics Contest for School Teams
Along with: Kobi Karlibakh, Or Tsok and Amit Zinger

Technical Articles

2005 Building Navigation Menus
An article that discusses web-site navigation and site flow patterns in general, and then explains how to implement them using the HTML-Widgets-NavMenu module.
2004 Which Open Source Wiki works for you?
An article overviewing and comparing several popular and open source wiki engines. Published at O'Reilly-Net.
2004 The New Breed of Version Control Systems
A comparison of the version control systems that aim to be successors to the CVS version control system. Published at O'Reilly-Net.
2001 Perl for Perl Newbies
A series of presentations (along with detailed slides and many examples) that aim to introduce the Perl programming language for beginners.

Creative Writing

2004-2005

The Human Hacking Field Guide

A humorous realistic story about high school teens in mid-2000's Los Angeles, who deal in programming extensively.

1998

The One with The Fountainhead

A parody on "The Fountainhead" (by Ayn Rand) modelled on an episode of the T.V. show "Friends".

1996-1997

The Enemy and How I Helped to Fight it

A satire about the situation in the Israeli-Lebanese border

Essays

2003 Open Source, Free Software and Other Beasts
An essay explaining what Open Source Software, and Free Software is all about, the difference of terms and philosophies, and the various other terms one should know about.
2004 The Joy of Perl
An essay explaining why I like Perl so much.

References

Will be supplied upon request

Fields of Expertise

Programming Languages: C/C++, Perl, Basic, Java, JavaScript, Object Pascal, Bourne Shell, Scheme, Haskell, Matlab, Python, PHP, Common Lisp, Prolog (Basic Knowledge).
Operating Systems: UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD, others), Windows 95/98, Windows 3.11, DOS, Windows XP.
Databases: SQL, Delphi, ODBC, MS-Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite.
Internet Related: HTML, XHTML, CGI programming, JavaScript, TCP/IP Sockets, Website Meta Language, Apache, CGI::Application
XML Technologies: XML, DTD, RELAX NG, XPath, DOM, XSLT.
Various Programs: Word, Excel, WordPerfect, Corel-Draw, The GIMP, LaTeX, DocBook/XML, OpenOffice.org, Inkscape.
Development Tools: Autoconf/Automake/Libtool, CVS, Subversion, BitKeeper, SVK, Vim, CMake.

Languages

Hebrew Speaking, Reading and Writing - Mother Tongue
English Speaking, Reading and Writing - Very Good
Arabic Reading and Writing - extremely basic (and rusty) command

Personal

Born 5 May, 1977
Single
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