Shlomi Fish's Resume

Education

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.

I began working at SmartLink as a tester for their software-based modem which was based on a soundcard and implemented the connection logic and the DSP in software. I worked with Windows 95 and Windows 95 OSR2. When Smart-Link hired a dedicated and more experienced Q&A Engineer, I became a part-time tester/ high-level programmer/general jack-of-all-trades.

I worked with the Windows Drivers, MFC, Perl for Win32, DJGPP, Cygwin, a myriad of games and modem-related software, as well as Microsoft IIS.

April 1996 - October 1996

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

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

I worked at Cortext as a web-designer and CGI programmer. I worked with HTML, Apache, Perl, various UNIX flavours (FreeBSD, SunOS 4.1.3, IRIX) and Windows 95 Workstations. Built several sites there, while still using almost exclusively Perl due to my limited knowledge (at that point) of 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

Elpas developed a network of sensors that was installed in each room of a building (say a hospital), and received input from infra-red badges. That made it possible to determine where each person or piece of equipment was located. I maintained the software that ran on a centralised computer, received the raw input from the sensors and processed it. My main issue was to replace an SCO UNIX server software with something internal of our own. We inspected working with Microsoft Access and ODBC, and eventually realised our own in-memory data managing was the most suitable solution due to the real-time nature of the application.

Specialised in Windows (16-bit) Programming, SQL, ODBC, ANSI C and C++. Worked primarily with Borland C++ 4.5 and the Microsoft Developer Network.

Programming - Open Source Projects

2000

Freecell Solver
Main Programmer

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

Started a C project to automatically solve games of Freecell. Continued in adding more features, optimisations, and clean-ups. Experienced with ANSI C Programming, writing portable code, Autoconf/Automake/Libtool, GNU Make, Writing RPM Specs, maintaining a web-site and interacting with users and co-developers over the Internet.

Freecell Solver is distributed under the public domain, and has been integrated into three Freecell implementations so far.

1997

MikMod for Java
Programmer

Converting a program from ANSI C to Java

Mod Files are music files whose instruments are given as samples, and are played at different notes and effects to create the melody. The conversion was done by converting to C++, and then several steps of Javaisation. The resultant code was working and produced good output, but was not very conformant to the Java style.

Communal and Personal

An Administrator for the iglu.org.il site.

Maintaining several online services supported by the main server of the Israeli Group of Linux Users (IGLU). Experience with Apache, Perl, rsync, qmail and other programs. Created several online pieces of content using these tools.

Maintaining a private Linux workstation

Maintained several home systems and one at the Computer Networks Laboratory of the EE Department of the Technion. Experience with package maintenance, system configuration, installing software, fixing glitches, and daily use. Used RedHat Linux (versions 5.x, 6.x) and Mandrake/Mandriva Linux (versions 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, 10.x and 2005/2006).

Mathematics

Technical Articles

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

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Personal