Matthew B-M: Curriculum Vitae
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Matthew Byng-Maddick
<mbm+cvhtml@colondot.net>
| Date of Birth: 26th July 1977 | Marital Status: Single |
| Nationality: British Citizen |
Employment Experience
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October 2006 - present |
Venda Ltd Senior Systems and Networks Administrator Since moving to the Systems team in Venda, I have implemented TACACS+ AAA on the switches in the office and on our live platform. I have planned and added the spanning links to make our live switching network more resilient. Recently, I've been involved in commissioning new BGP links, and a network to support it, based on OSPF across Cisco hardware. I've also been involved with maintenance of PostgreSQL, some maintenance on Venda's 3 NetApp filers and general maintenance of Linux-based systems within Venda. |
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March 2005 - October 2006 |
Venda Ltd Software Developer I started off at Venda doing bugfixes to the codebase, but more recently have been developing new features, to enable other teams to do resource optimisation, to help optimise our use of the NetApp filer, and to allow the platform to be scalable, merging features from one code branch to another, and fixing and helping to manage a highly-branched CVS repository. I have also been involved in many speed and resource optimisations within core parts of the codebase. |
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April 2001 - March 2005 |
The Bunker (previously A L Digital) Software Developer and Network Manager In nearly 4 years at A L Digital (now replaced by The Bunker Secure Hosting), I was involved with many projects, many concerned with security, and later on in terms of building and maintaining networks. I was responsible for the design and build of a cut-down FreeBSD system for the deployment of cheap general purpose computers as routers, using quagga. When I left, I was in the process of planning a replacement core network for hosting, with appropriate redundancy and monitoring. As a programmer, I was involved with security, both writing SSL libraries and doing security reviews (including one on OpenSSL), as well as web application work carried out by A L Digital. |
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July 1999 - April 2001 |
Codix.net Software Developer and Systems Administrator In July 1999, I helped Alex Nunes start up Codix.Net (now a part of Venus Internet) by setting up the internal network, procedures and development environments. I wrote much of codix's infrastructure, including a small templating system, a cryptographic session-management system, and I co-wrote a small-scale fast search engine. I was also involved with much of the web application work done by codix. |
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August 1998 - October 1998 |
Transaxion Freelance Software Developer |
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August 1995 - October 1996 |
STC Submarine Systems / Alcatel Submarine Networks Trainee Engineer |
Publications
| February 2002 |
Keyman: Trust Networks for Software Distribution (not peer-reviewed) Presented to: Workshop on Open Source Software Development |
Education
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October 1996 - June 1999 |
Selwyn College, University of Cambridge Natural Sciences (Physics) MA Part Ia - (I), Part Ib - (II.2), Part II - (III). |
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August 1990 - July 1995 |
Westminster School STEP / S-Levels (3 Is, 1 II), A-Levels (4 As), AS-Levels (1 A), AO-Levels (1 A), GCSEs (6 As, 4 Bs) |
Computer Experience
Familiarity with:
- POSIX, and the UNIX Programming Environment (and ANSI C)
- Linux (several distributions), FreeBSD, Solaris
- The Perl Language (and some Perl internals)
- Nagios Monitoring and SNMP (v1/v2c)
- SMTP, IMAP, and mail configuration (and some Exim internals)
- DNS and BIND8/9 configuration
- The Apache Webserver (and some of its internals)
- Shell Scripting
- SQL (mixture of MySQL and PostgreSQL)
- Cryptosystems and the OpenSSL Cryptographic Library
Exposure to:
- IOS, Routing, IPv4, TCP, Firewalling on PIXes and ASAs, OSPF, BGP
- Data OnTAP v7.0
- Administration of PostgreSQL
- Linux-HA (heartbeat)
- TACACS+
- RADIUS (Open System Consultants Radiator)
- RANCiD
Published free software:
Programming Languages:
- C
- C++
- Perl
Tools
- GNU CC (GNU C++) and a variety of make(1) implementations
- Gdb
- Perl
- The bourne or GNU bourne-again shell / sed / awk
- cvs for version control
Other
As well as the above, I have co-written and maintain a mail-based interface for registering domains using Tucows' OpenSRS system.
Referees
Please contact me for addresses of referees.
