Curriculum vitæ

Personal Identification

Name
Jan Pazdziora
Email
jpw (at) adelton (dot) com
Languages
fluent English, passive Slovak, German, and Russian, survival knowledge of French; Czech (native)

Qualifications

  • Technical lead, teamlead, coach, solo software engineer
  • Analysis, architecture design, and development of information systems and software products
  • Issue/bug triage, release engineering, testing
  • Systems for telcos, web systems, applications for dozens of thousands of users
  • System integration, extensions of existing software products, connections to legacy systems
  • Deploying W3C standards for systems with open interfaces
  • Tuning and administration of OTLP database systems
  • Administration of large computer networks and Unix systems, definition of security policies

Professional Experience

2006–
Red Hat Czech, s.r.o.
Principal Software Engineer, lead technical engineer for the Satellite engineering team
Red Hat Network Satellite Engineering
  • Lead the PostgreSQL database backend support into production-ready state
  • Database schema migration and validation
  • Feature lead for SELinux support
  • Participation in open-sourcing the Satellite into the Spacewalk project, release nanny roles
  • Verification and feature lead of new technologies for upcoming releases — migration to Apache 2 / mod_perl 2, RHEL 5
  • Bugfix backporting for maintenance releases, hotfix request processing
  • Triaging, bugfixing, QA tasks, validation; release engineering roles
IPv6 support for Fedora Core
Internal trainings
Technology used includes: Java, Perl, Python, C, Oracle / PL/SQL, PostgreSQL / PL/pgSQL; Xen, KVM; Linux, Solaris; system provisioning / kickstarting
Interviewed over 40 candidates for software engineering and QA positions
2003–2006
SkyNet, a.s.
IT Analyst and Software Developer
Billing of voice services
  • Responsible for analysis, design, and development; team lead
  • Process coordiation with external partners (interconnect, customers)
  • Implementation of the billing system for external entities (outsourcing)
  • The billing software allowed the company to successfully enter the voice services market
Other internal systems
  • Coaching, analysis, and development of domain management and domain registrar system
  • Supervising development of system for processing data services orders
  • Connections to legacy systems, reporting / controlling, providing database systems know-how
Technology used included: Perl / mod_perl, Oracle / PL/SQL, XML / XSLT, HTML / CSS / JS / DOM
1998–2003
Masaryk University
IT Analyst and Software Developer
Information System of Masaryk University — administration of studies and scientific research
  • Analysis, architecture specification and design of data model
  • Development of system environment and core modules, application development
  • Connections to other university information resources, on-line data transfers
  • Electronic applications for admission, payment processing
  • Deployment of the system for other institutions (outsourcing)
Miscellaneous
  • Document management system, including conversions of proprietary formats
  • Support for ECTS adoption at university level including modification of university regulations, coordination with rector's office
Technology used included: Perl / mod_perl, Oracle / PL/SQL, RPC
1999–2001
Speedlink GmbH, Berlin
Programmer (remote, contractor)
Project Meta-List.net
  • Analysis and design of cluster solution for mailing-list archive
  • Development of administrative interface and applications handling incoming messages
Technology used included: cluster MySQL, mod_perl
1995–1998
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Network Administrator
  • Unix server and computer networks (IRIX, Linux, Solaris)
  • Development of web-based authenticated system for credit-based study system
September 1996
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
Academic stay
Project of ATM networks
Supported by the Jan Hus Educational Foundation
1992–1995
Civil Engineering High School, Kudelova, Brno
Teacher and System Administrator
  • Teaching, installing and maintaining PC and CAD systems

Education

1997–2004
PhD degree
Informatics at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
PhD dissertation Data-Centric Web Application Framework
1992–1997
Master degree (Mgr.)
Informatics at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Master thesis Linebreaking and pagebreaking algorithms in computer typesetting

Other Formal Qualification

2012
Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist (RHCDS)
2011
Red Hat Certified Security Specialist (RHCSS)
2007
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE # 110-914-611)
1995–1996
Teacher Training Program
Supported by the Civic Education Project and the Jan Hus Educational Foundation

Pedagogical and Presentation Experience

2000–
Training and tutoring Perl programming language
2001–2003
Tutor of Database Systems Seminar
1999–2003
Supervized bachelor and master projects and thesis in Java, database systems, XML, and networking technologies
1998–2003
Presentations at both local and international conferences on university information systems, Perl, XML/XSLT, and software engineering

Other projects

  • Internal data layers in Web applications utilizing XML (RayApp)
  • Internationalization of PostgreSQL collation (nls_string)
  • Perl modules XBase.pm/DBD::XBase, Cstools, Docserver, TeX::(DVI|Hyphen), Font::TFM, MyConText, available on CPAN under GPL and Artistic Licences
  • Consultation and analysis of purchase/order and administrative system for SME
  • Numerous patches to open source software projects
  • Process streamlining in educational organization
  • Czech and UTF-8 (UCA) linguistic sorting and collation modules for the MySQL database server