Alexey N. Kovyrin - Performance Consulting (MySQL, LAMP, Rails)

New Job: Scalability Expert in Scribd.com

Scoundrel — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:45:23 +0000

My new employer is Scribd.com - online document publishing company which is in top-500 sites in the Internet now (and growing). My primary duties there as a Scalability Expert are “simple” - our site needs to be able to keep up with growing popularity of the service. I still work remotely from Totonto, company’s head office is located in San Francisco, California.

TrafficValet - Domain Parking Service

Scoundrel — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:59:59 +0000

Company: Galt Networks Inc.
Project Dates: July 2006 - Present
Status: production
Name: TrafficValet
Technologies/Software:

nginx (hosting web servers),
Linux VServer (provides better security for jailed software),
PowerDNS (Serving DNS for parked domains),
MySQL (multi-reader scheme with replication inside of mysql cluster),
PHP (own OO framework, system management automation),
Nagios (monitoring)

Roles:

Unix System Administration,
Server Software and Scalable System Design,
Backend Development,
Some parts of Frontend Development

Best Tech Videos 2.0 has been released!

Scoundrel — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:28:43 +0000

So, we did it! New Best Tech Videos site version has been released today. Of course, it could have some issues, and we are really looking forward for your feedback on our support forums.

Let’s review main improvements we’ve made here:

First of all, I want to mention our first step to socialization of the BTV - all our users could signup now and get their own lists of favorited, commented and voted videos and much more - they could have their own personal RSS feeds.
Next cool thing we’ve prepared for you is user-generated content! You can find some great videos on the Net and share them with fellow BTV readers. At this moment our posting system works in pre-moderated mode to keep really high level of videos we post here, but later we want to delegate moderation to our most active members.
As I mentioned before - we have our own video rating system. All our users could vote for videos they like and then we’ll let users to decide, what videos they would like to watch based on these votes.

So, these are just small part (but most valuable) of our ideas. If you want to have a look at all of them, just sign up and start using the service - you gonna like it, we’re sure!

Thanks to all our readers, without your help this release would not happen!

Best Tech Videos

Administrator — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:02:29 +0000

Few days ago I’ve started new site which name is BestTechVideos.com. I’ve created this site because there are lots really interesting videos on the Net, but if you’d like to fine some good tech video, it is not so simple to find them because of tons of crappy “funny videos” like “funny cats” and so on.

So, If you like to attend technical conferences and watch conference sessions on video, if you like idea of screencasts, etc, then this site is for you! Welcome to Best Tech Videos you’ll be impressed by amount of hi-quality and useful videos on the Net.

ZippyVideos.com - Free Video Hosting, Upload and Media Sharing Community

Administrator — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:20:13 +0000

Company: XooX Inc. (Canada)
Project Dates: July 2006 - Present
Status: beta testing
URL: http://www.zippyvideos.com/
Technologies/Software:

nginx (reverse-proxy servers for frontend parts of site),
lighttpd (streaming servers cluster with application level balancing),
NFS (+set of php scripts for distributed storage implementation),
mplayer/mencoder (thumbnails, video files management, etc),
Flix SDK (flash videos encoding),
Linux VServer (provides better security for jailed software),
TinyDNS (Serving DNS for zippyvideos.com domain),
MySQL (multi-reader scheme with replication inside of mysql cluster),
PHP (own OO framework, system management automation),
Nagios (clusters monitoring)

Roles:

Unix System Administration,
Server Software and Scalable System Design,
Backend Development,
Some parts of Frontend Development

We have moved to Canada

Administrator — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:04:10 +0000

So, we are in Canada now! That is why I’m not interested in Ukrainian jobs, but if you have some remote or local Brampton, ON job for great web-designer you can drop me a line on any of my contacts.

P.S. If you haven’t read my Canada Immigration Blog, you’re welcome!

Homo-Adminus: Yet Another Admin’s Blog

Scoundrel — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:53:02 +0000

Yesterday I’ve created my own blog. There You will be able to read my notes about my admin’s life, about some interesting news in IT world, maybe some links to interesting web resources.

If You have any comments about my posts, You can write it there - I will be glad to hear from You.

What american English do you speak?

Scoundrel — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:33:49 +0000

Do you know, what kind of American English do you Speak? I know

Your Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English

15% Dixie

15% Yankee

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

I’ve got a new job!

Scoundrel — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:49:45 +0000

After my contract with ISP “Delta-Net” was finished I’ve looked for a new job for a while…

And after long searching process I’ve got a new job as a Senior Unix Administrator and Core Developer!

My one-month evaluation period has finished and now I’m working full time for New Age Opt-In company - a leading online relationship marketing company specializing in email marketing for customer acquisition and retention and located in USA.

As for now, I’m working remotely, but I’ve started to think about immigration to USA or Canada and I will be glad to hear any hiring propositions with sponsored or manual relocation options.

Projects History Has Been Moved

Scoundrel — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:04:25 +0000

Projects history has been splitted on ‘one project = one post’ basis and all projects posts was saved in Resume :: Projects category.