Ian Fung

hacker, san francisco: ian@slumbrparty.com

Objective

To find a challenging software development position in the areas of networking, operating system infrastructure, serverside applications, or distributed systems.

Education

BS in CS, May 2003, & MEng in CS, May 2004, from Cornell University, College of Engineering

Also on the internet: twitter, tumblr, github and flickr.

Skills

Languages: Python, C, Objective-C, Java, C#, Javascript, HTML/CSS, Chinese (Cantonese)
Distributed Systems: webservices, business logic and middleware, database design, persistence software design, RMI/HTTP/xml-rpc/EJB, PostgreSQL.
Networking protocols: IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, IPMulticast, MVPN, OSPF, BGP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, SSL, IPSec, SSH, ad-hoc networking protocols.v
Operating Systems: design theory, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MAC OS X
Algorithm design and analysis, Theory of Computing Security: VPN, access-lists, OS security policies, firewall implementation and design, convert channels, buffer overflows, code injection, botnets, worms, Trojan horses, intrusion detection.
Cryptography: Key distribution, authentication mechanisms (Radiius, PAM), secret key crypto (DES, IDEA), hashes (MD5, SHA), public key crypto (RSA, Diffie-Hellman)
Machine Learning: unsupervised learning (clustering), supervised learning (decision trees, kNN, neural nets)
Statistics and Scientific Computing

Work History

Technical Lead, ThrillCall

San Francisco, CA | Jan 09 to Present

I'm apparently a Ruby On Rails developer now.

Senior Software Developer, Syncplicity

San Francisco, CA | June 08 to Jan 09

Developed the Syncplicity Mac client: python core hooked up to a Cocoa frontend via PyObjC. Contextual menus and overlay icons are implemented via an innovative Finder plugin hack using C.
Wrote a replacement for the current S3 frontend in python that encrypts and decrypts user files. It performed faster, consumed less CPU overall, and had a smaller memory footprint.
Implemented tools to monitor Syncplicity services & continuous integration.
Advocated and oversaw the move from MS Team Foundation to GitHub. Provided git training to all employees.

Co-Founder, CellSpin

San Jose, CA | Jan 07 to June 08

Cofounded CellSpin with former Cisco coworkers, a website providing mobile software allowing users to upload media from their phones to anywhere on the internet. Subsequently raised $1.5 million in angel funding.
Designed and implemented:
the server stack & database schema (in PostgresSQL)
the website in Django, including the javascript and ajax functionality, and
most of the HTML/CSS (from comps).
Implemented distributed system to process tasks:
standalone servers (python twisted) to transcode and submit user media,
distributed queuing system (beanstalkd), and
memcached & load-balancers and redundant servers for all services.
Managed a team for server side work.
Designed and implemented the Windows Mobile client.

IOS-XR Network-infrastructure Developer, Cisco Inc.

Milpitas, CA | Nov 06 to May 07

Fix bugs in network layer 3 and 4 of IOS-XR (tcp, ip, etc).
Fix bugs in network infrastructure on a distributed OS (based on QNX).

IOS IPMulticast Dev-Test, Cisco Inc.

Milpitas, CA -July 04 to Nov 06

MVPN maintainer (write new tests, fix script bugs, find IOS bugs, answer questions and debug issues brought up by customers and regression groups).
Run regression for bug fixes, features and debug failures.
Give presentations on MVPN, including training for other groups to spread MVPN knowledge throughout Cisco.
Wrote tools to increase productivity (automated regression queuing)

Researcher, Cornell University, Professor Van Renesse

Ithaca, NY | May 03 to Sept 03

Designed and implementd P6P in the linux kernel, a IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling protocol that allows for transparent integration of IPv6 over an existing IPv4 network.

Software Engineer (intern), Zeosoft Corp.

Scottsdale, AZ | May 02 to Sept 02

Designed and implemented automated testing frameworks.
Develop peer-to-peer mobile conferencing software with company's base technology (J2EE on handhelds).

System Admin & Programmer, Cornell University, Prof. Sirer

Ithaca, NY | 01 to May 02, Sept 02 to May 04

Administered 30 development machines dual-booting between win2k and Redhat Linux, including shared logins, home dirs, mail, and security monitoring.

Researcher, Cornell University, Professor Sirer

Ithaca, NY | Jan 01 to Aug 01

Design and implemented C program to audit Java byte code to transform any standalone Java application such that its methods can be invoked over RMI.
Partially designed and implemented Java link and networking layer for an OS designed to work in an ad-hoc environment with an emphasis on saving energy by migrating objects within the system.

ian@slumbrparty.com

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