Resume

Andrey Chernov

Address: Moscow, Russian Federation
details available on request
Home Phone: available on request
E-Mail:
HomePage URL: http://ache.pp.ru/

Objective

I am interested in FreeBSD-related programming (kernel, userland, ports), Russification, web server supporting, C coding, perl scripting, or another job matching my skills which can be performed remotely via on-line access from my home.

Skills

Excellent:
FreeBSD, Unix, POSIX conformance, HTML, HTTP, CGI, C, Lex, Yacc, Perl, shell scripts, dialin/dialout, SLIP, UUCP, Russification, localization (single byte character sets), MIME, News/Mail/WWW services/agents tuning, Internet resources.

Relatively good:
SysV, other *BSD, Linux, C++, Pascal, Fortran, JavaScript, DHTML, Nroff, Basic, DOS, i386 ASM, Unix device drivers, TCP/IP, PHP, graphics formats, security issues.

Not so good:
Databases.

Experienced user on:

Education

Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Department of Automatization of Systems of Computational Complexes.

Specialist's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science (Applied mathematician), which is of the same level as Master's Degree in Europe.

Language Proficiencies

Russian
(mother language);
English
Good reading and writing abilities. Average listening skills limited by the lack of practical experience.

Products, credits (incomplete)

Publications

Last Activities

Awards & Certifications

Additional Information

Birth Year: 19XX (full date available on request)
Birth Place: Moscow, USSR.
Family Status: Single.
Citizenship: Russian Federation.
Gender: Male.
Health: Not good. Movement disability due to accident.

Interests

Metaphysics, magick, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, religious studies, culturology, Asian cinema.

Work Experience

Project:
Software Russification
Organization:
None
Role:
Programming, consulting, standards clarifying, contacting vendors, writing user guides in Russification;
Personal contribution areas:
  • Messages translation, 8bit cleanness, POSIX Localization Model;
  • Russian character sets and RFC 1489 registration;
  • Internationalization standards conformance for WWW, Mail and News services;
  • Internet applications (MUA, news readers, WWW browsers, Telnet) internationalization tunings and programming;
Status:
Active
Project:
FreeBSD Operating System
Organization:
The FreeBSD Project
Role:
Past Core Team member, developer, porter;
Personal contribution areas:
  • POSIX Localization Model, 8bit cleanness, Russification;
  • Device drivers writing (f.e. some parts of serial port, console, multiplexor, old soundcards and cd-rom drivers written by me);
  • Alpha-numeric screen-oriented software and libraries, terminal emulation;
  • POSIX-conformance functions & interface fixes;
  • Security issues;
  • Software porting to FreeBSD;
Status:
Active
Project:
RELCOM Net (ex-SU Internet segment)
Organizations:
Relcom Co., Demos Co.
Role:
Programmer, System Analyst, Consulting
Personal contribution areas:
  • Service provider software for Unix: UUCP level, device drivers writing, transport agents, SLIP, dialup;
  • Useful software collection updates (FTP archive);
  • Russian Extended UUPC clone (UUPC/@) developer;
See also "Interview with Maria Stepanova" and "Chronology of Russian Internet" (both in Russian)
Status:
Done
Project:
Software Porting
Organization:
Demos Plus, FreeBSD Inc.
Role:
Programmer
Personal contribution areas:
  • memory models tunings and adaptations to small address space;
  • Various system-depended tunings.
  • FreeBSD-related consulting.
Status:
Done
Project:
Pretty Good Privacy
Organization:
None
Role:
Programmer
Personal contribution areas:
  • Character sets conversion subsystem development;
  • Messages translation;
  • Bugfixes.
Status:
Done
Project:
Software Cracking
Organization:
None
Role:
Cracker, cracks/viruses/pirated stuff searcher
Personal contribution areas:
  • Removing nag screens, registration keys, reduced functionality;
  • Finding useful stuff using Internet.
Status:
Active
Project:
OS DEMOS
Organization:
IPK Minavtoproma
Role:
Programmer
Personal contribution areas:
  • Overlays mechanism;
  • Russification, messages translation;
  • Kernel and utilities debugging;
See also "All the truth about Demos" (in Russian)
Status:
Done




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