Daniel F. Sully

• Designed and built a flexible software stack in C with Ruby & Python bindings for effeciently handling large volumes of time-series data.
• Created a monitoring framework to handle both system & application level alerts using the Thrift RPC libraries.
• Built a dashboard for visualizing application level metrics for critical production system data.
• Maintainer of a variety of infrastructure level packages, including Xen, and Thrift-RPC.

• Wrote and integrated SNMP based load-balancer monitoring into Operations/NOC system.

• Led team of ~10 Open Source developers contributing to SlimServer.
• Responsible for 5 major releases of SlimServer, and many minor ones.
• Refactored server architecture from using in-memory hashes to a abstracted object-relational API.
• Cross platform support of a large (56k lines) codebase.
• Unicode Character Handling for metadata tags & filesystem access.
• Server optimizations & performance turning, including memory footprint reduction.
• Started inline documentation project for code & APIs.
• Created release & build tools.
• Initiated test framework & code coverage creation.
• SqueezeNetwork coding, infrastructure & deployment.
• MP3, Ogg, FLAC & WMA server side support.
• ReplayGain server side support & tag extraction.

• Deployment of infrastructure for all machines for SqueezeNetwork, Corporate website & Corporate internal.
• Automated Debian Linux controls using cfengine & FAI.
• Monitoring for the Squeezenetwork systems - service & website.
• Migrated legacy services to new controlled machines.
• Implemented a centralized OpenLDAP server which handles Postfix, VPN & internal authentication lookups.
• Deployed new corporate firewall, IPSec, DNS & DHCP services.
• Took ownership of Asterisk VoIP server.

• Built a fully redundant, 3-tier application architecture for handling large-dollar volume B2B transactions.
  
• Designed and implemented automated Unix server installation and maintenance infrastructure using CFEngine & Jumpstart.
  
• Monitoring infrastructure for product specific monitoring & metrics, in addition to standard system based monitoring.

• Server monitoring package:
  Expanded and enhanced WebSpace server monitors through a NetX API. Rewrote the controller processes' main loop to add asynchronous functionality to prevent monitor agent blocking.
  
  
• FTP Protocol, Security, and Functionality Test Suite:
  Wrote an automated test suite for verification of FTP servers against RFC 959, including generic security testing, and specific @Home user functionality.
  
  
• Replacement of wu-ftpd with ProFTPd:
  Evaluated, and implemented a transition from wu-ftpd to the ProFTPd server. This required patches to the ProFTPd code to conform to customizations on the file-system, including chrooting into a multilevel hashed user directory structure.

• Web Administration and Tools:
  Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the "webd" real-time file mirroring architecture & Apache servers.
  
  
• NASBot: Web Crawling Link Checker for internal content.
  
  
• Apache::AuthenRadius:
  Created Apache::AuthenRadius - a mod_perl authentication handler that checks user and password validity against a RADIUS server. In combination with the SSL protocol a secure, remote authentication transaction takes place between the client and server.
  
  
• RedHat Linux Roll-out:
  Responsible for the configuration and implementation of a RedHat Linux roll-out as part of the Workstation Team. Configured a NAS-customized version of RedHat, to conform with the local support model. Set up the KickStart install process, easing start up time, and reducing manual maintenance.

• Responsible for the setup and maintenance of WWW, login, mail and news servers.
• Setup and maintained Livingston Portmaster2 Terminal servers and modem pool.
• Developed Web static and dynamic web content for customers.
• Handled customer telephone support and network setup.