Objective

To become an integral part of a globally reputed IT/ITES firm so that I can utilize my skills and talents for the maximum benefit of the organization.

Innovations

These are my own software projects. Some of them are free and opensource software others are non-free.

CheckPCIDSS.com ( Free )

This is a free hosted security application named checkpcidss.com . It is an online pcidss compliance scanner application fully written in Python. This will help you to check your website / server to find the most important vulnerabilities in your server environment.

Tool(s):

Python , Django , Python-Sockets

Project Home Page(s):

• CheckPCIDSS.com

Role:

Founder and Developer

FFmpeg installer Software (Free and Open Source)

This is an Open source project completely written in Unix shell script. This is used for configuring and building a video streaming environment in LINUX/UNIX servers. It is the FOSS India 2008 award winner project.

Tool(s):

Unix Shell Scripting (BASH)

Project Home Page(s):

• www.ffmpeginstaller.com
• sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeginstall
• sourceforge.net/projects/shf

Role:

Founder and Developer

Pylight : Hosting Control Panel And Automation Software ( Free and Open Source )

Pylight is a Free and Opensource web hosting and automation control panel.It is still under development. It is developing in python with the facility to give

• High speed and stability
• API and Plugin management in python , perl and php
• Multiple webserver support
• Light weight and DDOS protected services
• 24x7 technical support enabled.
• Tire three architecture
• Multiple Linux distributions support ( Debian, ubuntu , Centos, RHEL , etc,. ) ,etc,.

Tool(s):

Python

Project Home Page(s):

• Pylight.org
• Pylight Wiki
• Pylight Community

Role:

Founder and Developer

Sysvm : Virtual Private Server Control Panel

This is a Hybrid VPS control panel for creating and managing Virtual Private Servers based on OpenVZ and Xen technology. It is a centralized control panel. Users can manage any VPS nodes around the globe from one portal. Its communication is over openssh2 secured protocol.

Tool(s):

C , BASH , PHP, AJAX, rpmbuild utilities, GNU AUTOMAKE,GCC

Project Home Page(s):

• sysvm.com

Role:

Founder and Developer

cPnginx : cPanel Nginx Integration Plugin

This is nginx webserver integration plugin for cPanel servers , which will turbo boost the server performance. It is 100% cPanel compatible with all add on and sub domains support. This software is using more than 5000 servers around the glow and still growing.

Tool(s):

PHP, perl, BASH

Project Home Page(s):

• cPnginx.com

Role:

Founder and Developer

cPremote : cPanel Remote Rsync Incremental Backup Plugin

This is a whm/cpanel plugin for managing cPanel backups remotely over internet . It is 100% compatible with cPanel and can schedule the backup based on daily, weekly and monthly.

Tool(s):

Perl,PHP,BASH

Project Home Page(s):

• cPremote.net

Role:

Founder and developer

Danginx : Directadmin Nginx Integration Plugin

This is a nginx webserver integration plugin for Directadmin servers , which will turbo boost the server performance. It is 100% directadmin compatible with all add on and sub domains support.

Tool(s):

Perl,PHP,BASH

Project Home Page(s):

• Danginx.com

Role:

Founder and developer

Personal Details

Languages known : English, Malayalam, Hindi and Arabic
Nationality : Indian
Passport Number : Available on request

Education

• B.Tech ( 2002-2006) , in Computer Science & Engineering, College Of Engineering Kallooppara, Pathanamthitta( CUSAT)
  Aggregate percentage of marks: 70.36
• Higher Secondary (2000-2002), KPMHSS, C.V. Nalloor, Kollam
  Aggregate percentage marks: 71.22
• SSLC(2000), HS C.V.Nalloor, Kollam
  Aggregate percentage marks: 83.83

Experience

I started my work with Linux and Opensource related software from the year of 2000. I joined in a company as Linux engineer in the year of 2006. Since then I worked with a number of organization as on-site consultant , employee and remote employee in India and out side India, including middle east countries , UK, USA, etc,. Now I own a Linux based software development and technical support company named Syslint Technologies. It was founded in 2008. Currently working as Senior Technical Consultant and Security expert for a USA and UK company.

Job Profile(s):

• Linux/Unix Developer
• Linux/Unix System Engineer And Security Consultant
• Virtualization Specialist and Trainer
• Research And Development Engineer

Skill Set

Operating Systems:

• Gnu/Linux Operating Systems

  Expert in Various Linux distributions as developer and Server administrator, Some of those distributions are Centos, RHEL,Fedora,Debian,ubundu,etc,.

• Unix Operating Systems

  Expert in FreeBSD,NetBSD,etc,. as server administrator and developer.

• Mac Os

  Expert in Mac Os X server as administrator.

• Windows Operating Systems

  As user level experience in windows Server 2008 ,Windows XP and Vista

Programing/Scripting Languages:

• C / C++

  Experience in developing device drivers, kernel modules, router firewalls,etc,.
  REF: Sysvm, Milix

• Shell Scripting / BASH

  Experience in Developing various server tools and automation applications.
  REF: ffmpeginstaller

• Python

  Experience in developing server wide tools, web based applications, application customizations.

• Sed / awk/ Regx

  Experience in Server wide scripting.

• PHP

  Experience in Server applications development, web development,etc,.
  REF: Sysvm

• Perl

  Development on CGI applications, Server scripting.

• HTML

  Experience with web development.

• CSS

  Intermediate fluency.

• Core Java

  Development based on oops applications.

• SQL

  Intermediate fluency. Integration with C, Perl, Python and PHP

Servers And Services:

• Web Servers

  Apache, Lighttpd,Nginx and Tomcat expert-level fluency configuring and installing Apache in ISP environment, SSL management, Creating virtual servers, performance tuning, installation streaming for mass number of domains. Installation of web report software. Load balancing and clustering.

• Database Servers

  MySQL, PgSQL administration,performance tuning, clustering, high availability and development.

• DNS Servers

  Bind configurations , DNS clustering (Expert-level in datacenter environment)

• FTP Servers

  vsftpd, Proftpd ,pure-ftpd (expert-level in ISP environment, creation of real and virtual FTP servers)

• SMTP Servers

  Exim, Sendmail, Postfix(high-intermediate level, spam and virus filtering, integration with SQL DBs)

• POP3/IMAP Servers

  Courier ,dovecot, cyrus-imap (expert-level, custom integration experience with SQL DBs)

• Authentication Servers

  OpenLDAP, cyrus-sasl

• Repository

  Yum, apt server build and management.

• Remote Login

  Openssh server(Expert, build and configuration in Datacenters)

• Exposure To

  NFS, SAMBA cross-platform drive sharing among GNU/Linux,Unix and windows. NIS configurations.

Server Control Panels:

• cPanel

  Expert in build, secure and optimization of cPanel servers.

• Plesk

  Expert in build, secure and optimization of Plesk servers.

• Webmin

  Expert in build, secure and optimization of Webmin servers.

• Virtuozzo(VPS)

  Expert in build, secure, resource configuration and optimization of Virtuozzo servers.

• Sysvm (VPS )

  Founder and Developer of Sysvm Control panel.

GNU Tools:

• GCC

  Expert in usage of gcc compiler collections in software development.

• Autoconf

  Experience in creating configure scripts using autoconf

• Automake

  Expert in developing make files scripts for software build procedure.

• GDB

  Experience in debugging using gdb.

• mipsel-linux-gcc

  Experience in cross compilation for MIPS processors using mipsel-linux-gcc compiler.

Specialization:

Linux kernel compilation. Build and maintain Virtual Private Servers (Openvz and Virtuozzo), Elementary device driver coding. Server security audit and performance tuning.

Projects In Details

VPS Administration Tool

This software is used for monitoring and managing VPS server ( Openvz / Virtuzzo) in datacenters. This will insert the static’s of HN ( Hardware Node) and VE's into a mysql database

Tool(s):

Python,PHP

Role:

Project Leader and Developer

MSM: Multiple Server Manager

It is a multiple server manager software completely written in python. You can perform same operation from a single shell in hundreds of servers simultaneously using this script

Tool(s):

Python

Role:

Developer

PHP-MySQL Enabled Website

This website was designed for managing students information

Tool(s):

PHP, MySQL,HTML

Role:

Project Leader and Developer

MiLiX – A Mini Embedded Linux Distribution

MiLiX is a mini embedded Linux distribution and data analysis package for CISCO Linksys router wrt54G.

Tool(s):

C, Make, CC, mipsel-linux-gcc, Python

Role:

Project Leader and Developer

Technical Articles

• Openx Hand Book:

  Description: A complete Openx server build and optimization guide . This will help you to develop an Openx add server from scratch.
  Read More . . .

• Openx Cluster HandBook - 121 Cluster (Nginx,Lighttpd)

  Description: A complete , simple and high performance cluster suite for hosting high traffic websites . It is based on Nginx ,Lighttpd ,Glusterfs Read more . . .

Abilities

• Ability to analyze problem/issues.
• Willing to shoulder challenges and responsibilities.
• Self motivated to learn new technologies and work hard.
• Good team player and fast learner.

Declaration

I here by declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.
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