Ben Hartshorne

resume@green.hartshorne.net
http://ben.hartshorne.net

Objective

• To work on exciting, high availability, high profile product, solving the problems everybody loves to have.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley
  BA in Cognitive Science, minor in Computer Science Dec 2001
  
• University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
  BASE summer program, August 2001
  

Activities

• Backpacker, ski mountaineer, equestrian, sailor, motorcyclist, SCUBA diver, photographer
• Amateur chamber music cellist
• Alumnus, Alpha Delta Phi. Positions include President, Literary Chair
• Wrote Aargh, award winning procmail-based email auto-responder for Linux
• Wrote Skipool, a carpooling assistant for ski addicts
• Contributed to the Ganglia distributed monitoring project, and wrote several gmetric scripts
• Contributed to the Ambient project, a cooperative office music manager
• Contributed to the Agnostos to-do list manager
• Certified MySQL 5.0 DBA

Work Experience

• Simply Hired, Inc., Mountain View, CA (Nov 2004 to June 2007)
  Sr. Systems Administrator
  
  • Architected production environment, designing for growth
  • Built scaleable, fault tolerant, secure network to launch simplyhired.com
  • Grew simplyhired.com from 0 to >200k UV/day and >1m page views per day
  • Principal administrator for all aspects of the Linux side of the network (dev, QA, and production), monitoring, backups, resource forecasting, repair, etc.
  • Worked with Linux, Apache, MySQL, Memcache, Lucene, php, SystemImager, rsnapshot, heartbeat, Subversion, CVS, Nagios, Ganglia, Netscreen firewalls, Netscaler load balancers, Foundry switches, Ironport appliance
  • Wrote perl, shell, and php scripts to facilitate system administration tasks and reporting
• Planetary Coral Reef Foundation, Pacific Ocean (September 2003 to June 2004)
  Crew
  
  • Lived aboard RV Heraclitus, on duty 4 hours out of every 12 while at sea
  • Worked in dry dock repairing ferrocement and lead dismantling / reassembly of technological components (RADAR, SONAR, GPS, computer, SSB and VHF radios)
  • Served as radio officer, diver, navigator
  • Built science portion of the PCRF website
• Adax, Inc., Berkeley, CA (Oct 2001 to July 2003)
  Network Support Engineer: Project engineer, system administrator (linux, solaris)
  Programming projects include:
  • Wrote a perl / python web front end to the Adax Tunneling Gateway
  • Network API to enable remote testing of Adax hardware in a Sun High Availability environment
  • Designed and wrote automated test shell to facilitate product QA
  • Lead project engineer for M3UA protocol stack integration
  System Administration projects include:
  • Designed and built firewall, rebuilt main servers
  • Initiated development of intranet web services
  • Led project to replace all office desktops with open source solutions
  • Integrated separate departments networks
• Xpressent, Inc., San Jose, CA (May 2001 to Jul 2001)
  Software Programmer, Linux OS: Wrote an Apache module. Worked from home, without immediate supervision. Set and met deadlines.
• Cooperative Digital, Oakland, CA (Jun 2000 to Aug 2000)
  Telephone Technician: Installed, maintained, and repaired Nortel and Panasonic PBX and voicemail systems. Advised on upgrades and purchases.
• LinuxCare, San Francisco, CA (Jun 1999 to Aug 1999)
  Technical Support Intern: Provided second and third level enterprise support for Linux. Worked in a rotating call center.
  
• UC Berkeley Office of Residential Computing, Berkeley, CA (Aug 1997 to Jan 1999)
  Resident Computer Consultant: Provided first level support for 250 residents.
  Platform Specialist: Provided second level support. Planned educational events.
  

Programming

Shell, Perl, C, C++, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Java, Python, Lisp