Linux-related jobs in Toronto

Zbigniew Koziol softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sun Feb 7 14:19:29 UTC 2010


In Russia you will get a well paid job right away.

But not a personal life: most of males are drunk all the time around. 
"Most" however does not mean "all".

;)

zb.
P.s..:  Unfortunately, it is not that trivial to go and work, and live 
in Russia



Renata Rocha wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 19:09, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>   
>>  You found TLUG, so feel free to come to our meetings. There are also
>> several other open source and language specific groups in the area like TPM
>> (Toronto Perl Mongers). Getting out and meeting people will be a big help.
>>     
>
> I have a friend from TPM, Lucy Salvi. I was a member of some Brazilian
> Perl groups, I'll probably join them.
>
>   
>>  Help us get to know you. What projects have you worked on? What are your
>> areas of expertise?
>>     
>
> Nowadays, I'm kinda of an Apache ninja :)  Just kidding.
> My last job was at UOL - UOL would be Brazil's AOL. I was working with
> their e-mail develoment team, doing stress tests with JMeter, because
> they have 10,000,000 e-mail users (I'm talking about real ones. They
> have a policy on free unused e-mail accounts and they get deleted).
> The system is constantly uptaded and runs software theyselves develop,
> based on open source solutions like Cyrus. Very nice and big project,
> is the kind of thing I like.
>
> While in this project, I tested a session server/cache application
> build to deal with Memcached, written in Erlang. All the UOL apps are
> now using this Erlang app now, it works fine.
>
> I've worked with their forum application - initially it was a PHP app,
> then they migrated to a Java solution ("Secure, Stable and Easy
> Maintenance" - all it wasn't). The forum focus was teen kids,
> something like a brazilian 4chan, with some moderation. Man, it was
> the most crazy project I was ever in. You delivered a new version at
> 4am, five minutes later there was a whole topic pointing out all the
> interface bugs the QA team could not find. Rollback, let's fix the
> bugs. Next night, another delivery. This forum could stand one post
> per second, I was the only sysadmin in the backend, including
> performance tests, and my very first experience with scrum projects.
>
> Luckly, one day they decided to change the teams and I was moved to
> the authentication & authorization team. Very very interesting
> project, custom apache modules, all I love to do, debug, test and
> compile in different architectures, build them up together. I left UOL
> while working on this.
>
> This were my last two years, I believe it's all that really matters.
>
> I've worked before in datacenters (absolutely love them)  and, in
> entry-level as technical support.
>
> I'm pretty interested in working with big infrascructures, or coming
> back to a DC. :)
>
>
>
>   
>>  As for prior experience; I've never gone to school for IT, but have been
>> able to make a living. It's hard(er) to get a job with a bigger firm, but
>> with smaller firms you can generally have good luck. It all comes down to
>> what you know with those small firms. So if your Brazilian experience can be
>> described, you should be golden.
>>     
>
> I don't have an IT degree. I've studied some Mathematics, but didn't
> graduate. I plan on studying again, but something different.
>
>   
>>  Another thought is; Your English sounds very good, so perhaps you could do
>> some talks at some local geek groups do help get yourself known in the area?
>>     
>
> Thanks, and, sure. I've done some speeches on the past, and this
> January I had a speech at Linux.conf.au, but I couldn't attend.
>
>
>   

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