Gal Shalif

Phone:	+972 54 5243285
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Profession

Software Engineer, Unix, Solaris, and Linux expert

Employment Objectives

To work as a senior software engineer and a technology leader for Unix, networking, security, hardware, etc.

Expertise

Guiding of R&D teams into new technologies
Consultant to R&D companies and end-users
Problem solving between R&D and end-users
Benchmarking and sizing studies on Solaris and Linux
Programming expert for Solaris, Linux, C/C++
Experience with AIX, HP-UX, Windows NT, Scheme, Common Lisp, Perl, Tk/Tcl, Emacs, C/C++ compilers and tools, ...

Experience

2007 - Present BigBand Network

Software engineer at the IPTV group, C/C++, Linux expert

Developing a video switching application running on a blade system with GoAhead cluster software above Linux

2001 - September 2006 Sun Microsystems
- Senior software engineer at the MDE group, Solaris, C/C++ expert
  - Assimilation of Solaris & Linux technologies
  - Consultant and leader of software engineering work with ISVs/IHVs that run on Sun's technologies of:
    - Sparc machines
    - AMD64 machines
    - Storage hardware
    - Solaris&Linux OS
    - Java, J2EE
  - Sizing, tuning, and monitoring of various applications for the above technologies
  - Coordinate and lead software/support groups to solve a specific customer issues
  - Lead the adoption of new technologies
  - Advocate and "evangelize" new technologies
1999 - 2000, Innoveda
- Group leader, Linux "guru"
  - Assimilation of Linux technologies
  - Application adaptation to Linux
  - Configuration Management tools
  - Apache/PHP/MySQL experiment
  - C++, C, Scheme, Perl, Tk/Tcl
  - Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Windows NT
1994 - 1999, Summit Design
- Senior software engineer, group leader, Unix specialist
  - Embedding of a scripting language (Scheme) within an EDA tool
  - TCP/IP networking extensions
  - Application automation with the Scheme scripting language
  - Application adaptation to the Solaris OS with GNU compilers and tools
  - Integration with revision control system
  - C++, Scheme, Common Lisp, Perl
  - Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Windows NT
1991 - 1994, See Technologies
- Senior software engineer
  - OO database of a chip layout tool for the EDA industry
  - EDIF output for a "VHDL by picture" EDA tool
  - C++/C
  - SunOS
1990 - 1991, Dazix (Daisy)
- Software engineer
  - OO database of a chip layout tool for the EDA industry
  - C/Pascal/Fortran
  - SunOS, Daisy Unix

Education

B.Sc. (1990), computers&math (and some physics), Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Various courses at OOD OOP, Java, J2EE, ...

Languages

Hebrew (native)
English (very good)

Personal Details

Date of birth:

April 11, 1964

Address

Gal Shalif, 7 York Shteiner St., Tel Aviv 69860, Israel