Seeking a challenging opportunity in the field of Operating Systems development.

Member of a team creating a set-top multimedia device for emerging Middle East markets
Creating set-top's Linux based host environment
Creating a minimal disk-less Linux host for a stripped down project version
Creating project's OEM installation media and Debian packages
Deploying, securing and administrating project's Linux development server

Contributing member of the Linux Kernel project

• Contribution includes 60 patches currently applied in the official stable tree
  

• Regular contributor to SMACK kernel security project and Linux Security Modules
  

• Understanding of open source development process and tools, specifically the Linux Kernel development model
  

A complete GNU/Linux distribution from scratch

• Understanding of Unix systems internal structure (above kernel layer)
  

• Facing complicated dependency problems and inventing solutions for them
  

• Dealing with a 3-month scale project
  

Binary package management system for above GNU/Linux distribution

• Handling system dependencies and binary files management
  

• Project was established using advanced Bash scripting techniques
  

OpenProxima - Bluetooth proximity marketing software for embedded installations

• Software to quickly identify and concurrently send commercials to nearby bluetooth devices
  

• Implemented using openOBEX and DBus communications to Linux Bluez stack.
  

Smaller projects include:

• Bash debugger module
  

• Remote File System in Python using Fuse and xml-rpc
  

• x86 assembly coded wave file reverser
  

• Iptables firewalling scripts for intrusion detection, port guarding and packets logging
  

• Several shell scripts to automate daily Unix administration tasks
  

Understanding implementation of Linux Kernel:

• x86 Segmentation, Paging and Boot-up code.
  

• Processes creation, switch, deletion and multi-threading (LWP)
  

• Low level architecture-specific context switch, exception and interrupt handling code.
  

• Softirqs, Tasklets and Workqueues
  

• Preemption and Synchronization primitives (RCU, scalable spinlocks, mutexes, ...)
  

• Kernel user-space interaction including system calls, Netlink interface and virtual file systems.
  

• Linux Security Modules (LSM)
  

POSIX C Programming including sysv IPC, sockets and system calls
C development incorprating GLib, DBus and GTK+
Assembly Programming for Intel 386+ processors
Object Oriented Programming using C and C++
Scripting using Bash, Python, sed and awk
Small-scale Unix system administration

SCCI-2008 (Student Conference on Computers and Information) Fundraising team member