resume.json

resume.json

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    "basics": {
        "name": "Benjamin Alkov",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "phone": "(919) 906-7845",
        "location": {
            "city": "RTP",
            "countryCode": "US",
            "region": "North Carolina"
        },
        "profiles": [{
            "network": "LinkedIn",
            "username": "benalkov",
            "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/benalkov"
        }, {
            "network": "github",
            "username": "tildebyte",
            "url": "https://github.com/tildebyte"
        }, {
            "network": "CodePen",
            "username": "tildebyte",
            "url": "http://codepen.io/tildebyte/#"
        }]
    },
    "work": [{
        "company": "Lenovo, Fullfillment Engineering",
        "position": "Preload Development Engineer",
        "startDate": "August 2016",
        "endDate": "June 2017",
        "summary": "Converting Python code from various legacy manufacturing test systems to a new platform/API which unifies manufacturing test across product lines",
        "highlights": [
            "Successfully rolled out an OS preload on new server product line for overseas manufacturing plant"
        ]
    }, {
        "company": "Cisco Systems, Cisco Intercloud Services",
        "position": "Software Developer in Test",
        "startDate": "November 2015",
        "endDate": "July 2016",
        "summary": "Software Developer in Test. Member of a Scrum team responsible for metering and billing Openstack usage",
        "highlights": [
            "Completed team source repo re-org, including refactoring code into libraries and utilities",
            "Replaced ad-hoc code with standardized libraries, both home-grown and third-party",
            "Assisted with CI/CD environment design - Docker containers hosting StreamSets, Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, and MariaDB",
            "Used JIRA extensively for sprint planning, and task and issue tracking"
        ]
    }, {
        "company": "IBM/Lenovo, Imaging Technology",
        "position": "Software Developer in Test",
        "startDate": "June 2011",
        "endDate": "March 2015",
        "summary": "Developer of system and appliance deployments for manufacturing process",
        "highlights": [
            "Designed and implemented a Python text menu system, running within the constraints of a diskless system",
            "Maintained shell scripts and data files for deploying Linux virtual machine host and hosted virtual machine",
            "Designed and implemented shell scripts to:",
            "- Download and package daily test builds",
            "- Automate regression testing",
            "- Monitor and test servers remotely",
            "Maintained Linux PXE server used for booting systems under test into test automation environment"
        ]
    }, {
        "company": "Red Hat, Global Support Services",
        "position": "Partner Technical Liaison",
        "startDate": "June 2007",
        "endDate": "April 2011",
        "summary": "Technical liaison with OEM partners",
        "highlights": [
            "Worked with Red Hat Partners and Red Hat Engineering to resolve release-related technical issues",
            "Assisted Red Hat Partners in timely certification of their hardware or software",
            "Worked to resolve Red Hat/Red Hat Partner joint customer issues"
        ]
    }, {
        "company": "IBM, Service Processor Test",
        "position": "Quality Assurance Engineer",
        "startDate": "September 2003",
        "endDate": "June 2007",
        "summary": "Firmware tester. Executed test cases, reported defects, worked with developers to resolve defects",
        "highlights": [
            "Coded a library of bash scripts to test BladeCenter remote management",
            "Completed initial JS20 and JS21 PowerPC BladeServer testing on schedule",
            "Coded a library of shell scripts to automate testing tasks"
        ]
    }],
    "volunteer": [{
        "organization": "Processing.py",
        "position": "Contributor (development)",
        "website": "http://py.processing.org",
        "summary": "Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community",
        "highlights": [
            "Two original demos accepted",
            "Updated or cleaned up numerous tutorial demos"
        ]
    }, {
        "organization": "BallDroppings",
        "position": "Contributor (development)",
        "website": " http://balldroppings.com",
        "summary": "Generative music app"
    }, {
        "organization": "ChucK plugin for Sublime Text code editor",
        "position": "Project co-creator, co-admin. Developer",
        "website": "https://github.com/tildebyte/ChucK-plugin-for-ST3",
        "summary": "Syntax highlighting, tab completion, and snippets for ChucK programming language - http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu"
    }],
    "education": [{
        "institution": "The Linux Foundation",
        "area": "Systems Administration",
        "studyType": "Job-related, for Cisco Systems",
        "startDate": "2016-04-01",
        "courses": [
            "LFS452 Essentials of OpenStack Administration, Cert #LFS452-6202"
        ]
    }, {
        "institution": "Cloudera",
        "area": "Big Data development",
        "studyType": "Job-related, for Cisco Systems",
        "startDate": "2016-05-01",
        "courses": [
            "Cloudera Developer Training for Apache Spark"
        ]
    }, {
        "institution": "MITx",
        "area": "Computer Science / Programming",
        "studyType": "Independent Coursework",
        "courses": [
            "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (6.00x)"
        ]
    }, {
        "institution": "Sun Educational Services",
        "area": "Computer Science",
        "studyType": "Job related, for Nortel Networks",
        "courses": [
            "Java Programming Language (SL-275)"
        ]
    }, {
        "institution": "North Carolina State University",
        "area": "Publication Design",
        "studyType": "Bachelor",
        "courses": [
            "Writing, editing, rhetoric, graphic design"
        ]
    }],
    "skills": [{
        "name": "Software Development",
        "level": "Intermediate",
        "keywords": [
            "Python",
            "ES6/Javascript",
            "HTML/CSS"
        ]
    }, {
        "name": "Test Engineering",
        "level": "Expert",
        "keywords": [
            "APIs",
            "Frameworks",
            "Automation"
        ]
    }, {
        "name": "Team Dynamics",
        "level": "Intermediate",
        "keywords": [
            "Agile",
            "Scrum",
            "DevOps"
        ]
    }, {
        "name": "Technology",
        "level": "Expert",
        "keywords": [
            "Systems Administration",
            "Virtualization"
        ]
    }],
    "interests": [{
        "name": "Programming",
        "keywords": [
            "Python",
            "ES6"
        ]
    }, {
        "name": "Algorithmic/generative art & music",
        "keywords": [
            "Processing",
            "three.js",
            "Paper.js"
        ]
    }]
}