Alex Ott's Curriculum Vitae

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Personal Information

• Name: Alex Ott
• Address: Paderborn, Germany
• E-mail: alexott@gmail.com (please use it as primary contact)
• Personal site: http://alexott.net/en/
• LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexott
• Blog: http://alexott.blogspot.com
• Github: https://github.com/alexott

Summary

• Significant experience in products development for information security;
• Leadership in software development projects (commercial & open-source);
• Software architect and developer using different programming languages & technologies (cloud, on-premise);
• Business vision of tasks & requirements, results-oriented.

Work Experience

• Lead Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks
  Dates (from-to): 02.2023-now
  Name and address of employer: Databrics (remote)
  Positions held: Specialist Solutions Architect
  Type of business: Software Development/Big Data
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Working with strategic customers on implementation of solutions based on the Databricks' Lakehouse Platform.

  Technology stack: Apache Spark, MLFlow, Delta Lake, Scala, Python, SQL, Terraform, Go, ...

• Senior Resident Solutions Architect at Databricks
  Dates (from-to): 08.2021-02.2023
  Name and address of employer: Databrics (remote)
  Positions held: Resident Solutions Architect
  Type of business: Software Development/Big Data
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Working with strategic customers on implementation of solutions based on the Databricks' Lakehouse Platform.

  Technology stack: Apache Spark, MLFlow, Delta Lake, Scala, Python, SQL, Terraform, Go, ...

  Awards:

  • President's club FY22 (2021)
• Resident Solutions Architect at Databricks
  Dates (from-to): 08.2020-now
  Name and address of employer: Databrics (remote)
  Positions held: Resident Solutions Architect
  Type of business: Software Development/Big Data
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Working with customers on implementation of solutions based on the Databricks' Unified Data Analytics Platform

  Technology stack: Apache Spark, MLFlow, Delta Lake, Scala, Python, SQL, Terraform, Go, ...

• Principal Architect at DataStax
  Dates (from-to): 09.2019-07.2020
  Name and address of employer: DataStax (remote)
  Positions held: Principal Architect
  Type of business: Software Development/Big Data
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Working with customers on delivery of solutions based on the DataStax Enterprise, including architectural reviews, building prototypes, implementation guidance, pre- & post-release health checks, analysis of performance & other problems, providing guidance on fixing them, etc.;
  • Delivering advanced trainings to customers;
  • Preparing statements of work, and other customer-facing documents;
  • Mentoring team members;
  • Working on improving internal processes;
  • Contribution to products, tooling, documentation, etc. in form of patches, JIRAs, reviews;
  • Pre-sales activity - discussion of possible architectures with customers, helping prepare sound technical proposals, etc.;
  • Providing feedback to product teams on new functionality requested by customers, and general feedback on existing functionality;

  Technology stack: DataStax Enterprise, Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, Apache Solr, DC/OS (Apache Mesos), Kubernetes, Java, Python, Clojure, Scala, Apache Kafka/Kafka Streams/KSQL, Linux, ...

  Awards:

  • President's club FY20 (2019)
• Senior Solutions Architect at DataStax
  Dates (from-to): 03.2019-08.2019
  Name and address of employer: DataStax (remote)
  Positions held: Senior Solutions Architect
  Type of business: Software Development/Big Data
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Same as above;
• Solutions Architect at DataStax
  Dates (from-to): 01.2018-02.2019
  Name and address of employer: DataStax (remote)
  Positions held: Solutions Architect
  Type of business: Software Development/Big Data
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Similar to above, with slightly smaller scope;

    Awards:

  • Execution Excellence Q2 FY19 (2018)
  • President's club FY19 (2018)
• Senior Software Architect at McAfee/Intel Security
  Dates (from-to): 10.2016-12.2017
  Name and address of employer: McAfee, 33100 Paderborn, Germany
  Positions held: Solution Architect
  Type of business: Software Development
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Architecture of the CDP (Cloud Data Protection) solution (implementing elements of CASB), involving multiple teams & products (18 teams, ~150-180 engineers). Communication with stakeholders, preparing the architecture, tasks definition & coordination for involved teams (very geo-distributed - from India to US West coast), evaluation of technologies & prototyping, implementation of some components (Java, C++, Clojure, Docker-based microservices, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Spark, ...);
  • Development of URL & Content Categorization system using a range of machine learning & big data technologies (Apache HBase, Apache Solr, Apache Spark). Implementing the full machine learning workflow - model design, data collection & cleanup, feature extraction & selection, model evaluation, production deployment. Development of experimental models with Keras, XGBoost, scikit-learn, and other frameworks.
• Software Architect at Intel Security. (subsidiary of Intel Corporation)
  Dates (from-to): 07.2014-09.2016
  Name and address of employer: Intel Security, 33100 Paderborn, Germany
  Positions held: Software Architect
  Type of business: Software Development
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Architecture and development of new URL & Content Categorization system using the range of machine learning & big data technologies (Apache HBase, Apache Solr, Apache Spark). Implementing the full machine learning workflow - model design, data collection & cleanup, feature extraction & selection, model evaluation, production deployment. Introduction of new system lead to greater coverage of the categorized resources, increased customer satisfaction, and decreasing of number of escalations;
  • Architecture & implementation of the log processing system (Apache Kafka, Apache Spark Streaming, Elasticsearch) that is base for McAfee Cloud Visibility offering & reporting in Web Gateway Cloud Service.
  • Architecture of the CDP (Cloud Data Protection) solution involving multiple teams & products. Communication with stakeholders, preparing the architecture, tasks definition for involved teams, evaluation of technologies & prototyping, implementation of some components (Java, C++, Clojure).
• Mentor at Google Summer of Code 2014
  Dates (from-to): 05.2014-08.2014
  Main activities and responsibilities: Mentor for the project "Incanter and core.matrix integration"
• Software Architect at McAfee, Inc. (subsidiary of Intel Corporation)
  Dates (from-to): 03.2013-06.2014
  Name and address of employer: McAfee, Inc. 33100 Paderborn, Germany
  Positions held: Software Architect
  Type of business: Software Development
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Architecture and development of identity management & CASB (cloud access security broker) components inside McAfee Web Gateway: SSO (Single Sign-On), Cloud Storage Encryption, etc.;
  • Coordination of development with other teams, requirements analysis, tasks definition, etc.
• Principal Software Engineer at McAfee, Inc. (subsidiary of Intel Corporation)
  Dates (from-to): 04.2011-02.2013
  Name and address of employer: McAfee, Inc. 33100 Paderborn, Germany
  Positions held: Principal Software Engineer
  Type of business: Software Development
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Architecture and development of web-filtering and data leak prevention software (McAfee Web Gateway);
  • Provide training & support for 3rd party developers;
  • Quality "owner", responsible for introduction of quality-improving techniques and methodologies (code reviews, unit testing, analysis of existing problems & errors, continuous integration, static code analysis, etc.) — together with other organizational activities this lead to increase of product's quality, decrease number of customer escalations.
• Author & Editor at Practice of Functional Programming (Journal)
  Dates (from-to): 04.2009-04.2011
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Author of several articles on functional programming (Clojure, Scheme, etc.)
  • Preparation of new journal issues
• Senior Software Developer at McAfee, Inc.
  Dates (from-to): 01.2007-03.2011 (2007-2008 — Secure Computing Corp.)
  Name and address of employer: McAfee, Inc. 33100 Paderborn, Germany
  Positions held: Senior Software Developer
  Type of business: Software Development
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Development of content-filtering software (Webwasher/McAfee Web Gateway);
  • Architect of new versions of software — collecting requirements, creating top-level view, planning development activity, etc.
• Head of Software development group & architect at Jet Infosystems
  Dates (from-to): 10.2001-11.2006
  Name and address of employer: Jet Infosystems. B. Novodmitrovskaya, 14/1, 127015 Moscow, Russia
  Positions held: Head of Software development group, System Architect
  Type of business: System Integration
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Head of development group (9 people), lead of of development projects;
  • Architect and development of custom and off-the-shelf software (C/C++, Scheme, Lisp, Java);
  • Participation in marketing activity, present solutions for customers;
  • Infrastructure architect (data & process integration projects, network projects, mail projects).
  • Projects done:
    • Mailboss (aka SMAP "Dozor-Jet") – mail filtering and archiving software (architect and developer, leader of development process); https://jet.su/en/services/information_security/;
    • Webboss (aka SKVT "Dozor-Jet") – web filtering software (architect and develop software, lead the development process); https://jet.su/en/services/information_security/;
    • BeepayXP – payment processing software for the Vimpelcom – large Russian Mobile Company (Data architect, server infrastructure architect, project coordinator);
    • File-NG – data type detection library;
    • KC IAS - lead architect in data and process integration pilot project (on the base of Sun Java CAPS) for a Russian Central bank. Business process analysis, Project architecture design, product selection.
    • Content-type detection add-on for the Cerberus software (Mail filtering software for Lotus Notes);
    • Custom Web Portals for the government departments (architect solutions, project coordinator);
    • Mail projects for different clients (Infrastructure architect, project coordinator);
    • Custom software solutions (Development in C/C++, Java, Scheme).
• Teaching assistant & lecturer at Tomsk Polytechnic University
  Dates (from-to): 09.1998-08.2001
  Name and address of employer: Tomsk Polytechnic University, Lenina Str, 30, Tomsk, Russia
  Positions held: Assistant lecturer at Technical Physics department (Teacher)
  Type of business: Education
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Provide trainings for students in branch of thermodynamic, molecular physic, computer modeling of physical processes;
  • Administration of faculty network (mix of Unix and Windows servers) – 1500 users;
  • Development of Intranet applications.
• Developer at E-Compare Corp.
  Dates (from-to): 10.2000 – 4.2001
  Name and address of employer: E-Compare Corp, USA
  Positions held: Developer (remote work)
  Type of business: Software Development
  Main activities and responsibilities:
  • Writing modules for search engine (Perl, Oracle);
  • Web programming (HTML, JavaScript).

Education and trainings

• MBA at Magdeburg University, Germany
  Dates (from-to): 2003-2005
  Title of qualification awarded: Master of Business Administration
  Name and type of organisation: Deutsches MBA Program, Magdeburg University, Germany
  Principal subjects: General management, Finance, Marketing
• Engineer at Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia
  Dates (from-to): 1991-1997
  Title of qualification awarded: Physicists (Engineer)
  Name and type of organisation: Physical-technical department of Tomsk Polytechnic University
  Principal subjects: Physic and Chemistry of Plasma, Mathematics
  Level in national classification: Higher education diploma
  
• Online courses, etc. Full list is available on a separate page.

Technical skills and competences

Patents

• Proxy Authentication for Single Sign-On. Status: Application

Presentations

• 2 times presenter on Intel Software Professionals Conference (SWPC) on topics of software quality, and URL categorization. SWPC is internal conference with very rigorous selection of presentations;
• 2 times presenter at McAfee Innovation Summit - global internal conference about innovative solutions;
• Multiple presentations on small conferences & user groups on different topics - Clojure, Emacs, ...

Programming languages and software development skills

• C and C++ – more than 25 years (mostly in Unix – Linux, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD);
• Java – 15 years (commercial & personal projects);
• Clojure - 10 years (commercial & personal projects);
• Python - 3 years (mostly personal projects);
• Other languages (mostly not active right now): Scheme and Common Lisp (8 years, commercial & personal projects), Erlang (2 years, personal projects), Haskell (1 year, personal projects), OCaml and F# (2 years, personal projects), Scala (personal projects), Go (1 year, personal projects), Perl (5 years, personal & commercial projects), SQL (7 years, Oracle and PostgreSQL);
• UML modeling in complex projects;
• Shell scripting languages - bash, sh, zsh, ...
• NoSQL databases: Cassandra, Apache HBase, Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, CouchDB;
• Continuous integration using Jenkins;
• Static code analysis using Coverity;
• Test-driven development (TDD) using different frameworks - JUnit, Mockito, GMock, GTest, Boost.Test, ...

Other computer-related skills

• Administration of UNIX-like OSes – Linux (since 1996), Sun Solaris (2000-2006), HP-UX (2001-2006), FreeBSD (2000-2006);
• Administration of Windows OSes – NT4, 2000, XP, ...;
• Administration of relational databases (Oracle and PostgreSQL);

Open Source projects

I'm contributing to different open source code projects including:

• Apache Zeppelin (committer), Apache Tika, ...;
• Clojure-related: Incanter, Leiningen, swank-clojure, Clojure, clojure-hadoop, labrepl;
• Emacs-related: el-get, magit, Muse, GNU Emacs, CEDET;
• ALTLinux — Linux distribution, package maintainer (2001-2004)
• Catdoc — Open-source converter for MS Office files, development of PPT & XLS converters;
• Dansguardian – web-filtering software;
• openfwtk — application level firewall;
• Russian documentation for Linux – author of different articles about Linux.

Information about these & other OSS projects you can find on github and ohloh.

Personal skills and competences

Languages

• Russian: Mother tongue
• English: Good reading, writing & verbal skills
• German: Good reading, writing and verbal skills

Social and organizational skills and competences

• Ability to work in multinational teams;
• Ability to work in teams (also geographically distributed) and alone;
• Experience in management of development teams;
• Practical experience in management of software projects;
• Participation in Open Source projects.

Other personal info

• Artistic skills and competences:
  • Author of multiple articles, in physics and computer-related branches (functional programming, Emacs, programming);
  • Co-author of Russian translation of "GNU Emacs manual", "Practical Common Lisp", "Types and programming languages", and some other.
• Hobbies:
  • Sport: Running, Cycling, Hiking

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