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Work experience

• In-house process automation
• Test automation systems
• Configuration Management and Build Automation
• In-house Web Applications
• Data processing

• Fundamentals of Perl
• Advanced Perl development
• Test Automation using Perl
• Perl 6 for programmers
• Subversion version control system

• Cisco
• Qualcomm
• Checkpoint
• Mercury Interactive (now HP)
• Orange (Partner)
• SeaBridge Networks - A Siemens company

• Padre, the Perl IDE. (http://padre.perlide.org/). An IDE written in Perl 5 with special features for developing Perl 5 and Perl 6 scripts and applications. Initiating and leading the project. Attracting more than 50 contributors. (2008-)
• Developer and maintainer of the Perl Community AdServer ( http://pcas.szabgab.com/ ) (2007-)
• Developer and maintainer of the CPAN::Forum ( http://cpanforum.com/ ) (2004-)
• Several Perl modules on CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. (http://search.cpan.org/~szabgab/) (2001-)
• Participation in several open source projects. Mostly writing unit tests and refactoring code.

• Talks, presentations at several Israeli and international conferences such as YAPC in Europe and in the USA, German Perl Workshop, Nordic Perl Workshop, Belgian Perl Workshop, LinuxTag Berlin, FOSDEM, GoLinux (Israel), August Penguin (Israel)
• Leader of the Israeli Perl Mongers (Users Group) http://perl.org.il/
• Organizer at the Rehovot Perl Mongers (Users Group) http://rehovot.pm.org/
• Organizing 4 Perl Conferences in Israel http://perl.org.il/YAPC/
• Organizing the Open Source Developer Conference in Israel http://osdc.org.il/
• Help organizing Perl conferences in Hungary
• Participating on lots of mailing lists and IRC channels

• White Camel Award for contributing to the international Perl community (2008).
• HaMakor prize for contributing to the Israeli Open Source and Free software community. (2009)

• http://szabgab.com/
• http://blogs.perl.org/users/gabor_szabo/

• Traceroute and Speed-Meter Gateway system for monitoring performance of web sites and helping resolve technical problems in the Internet. In the best times there were more than 50 measurement points installed worldwide. (Not available anymore)
• Development of a distributed database of Internet Service Providers called EUISP with 6 mirrored sites of the site in 6 countries: USA, Australia, Spain, Finland, Hungary and Israel. (Not available anymore).
• Hypolit, an automated, multi-server, add-based free web hosting site. (Not available anymore)

• Setup and administration of the internal infrastructure of the company's computer systems with 60 Win2000 clients, 2 NT 4.0, 10 Linux and a SUN server. Rebuilding the Intranet and improving security.
• Setup and monitoring 3 versions of the website at various complexity levels: small and static; multilingual with 7 languages on a dedicated server; two-tire system with Linux web and application server (JSP with Jakarta) and Oracle database on SUN/Solaris.
• Development and maintenance of a system to hold 35.000 domain names and related websites, increasing the daily hit rate by 50% within one week.
• Development of various tools for fast website development including and editor for the 35.000 domain names. This provided the company's business team with the capacity to independently make rapid changes to the splash pages.
• Providing various statistics on the performance of the companies different websites.
• Introducing automatization in several parts of the development.
• Training employees and teaching web programming languages (HTML, CGI, Perl, PHP).

• Evaluating third party technology in order to include them in the networking side of the product.
• Writing Application Notes for the different systems.
• Training the Marketing and the Support team of those implementations. Working with switches, routers, VPN Data Encryption (RedCreek, VPNet) and Quality Of Service (Packeteer, BandWiz, Allot) devices. Accounting information, SNMP managers.
• Designing and developing an asynchronous, telco return system for Phasecoms' cable modem system.

• Design, setup and maintenance of the companies computer infrastructure from scratch.
• Installation WinNT 4.0 domain based network with Win95 clients. Adding UNIX and Macintosh to the system for portability testing.
• Evaluating and setup of version control system and bug tracking system.

• Development: Worked on hypertext (SGML) creation, compilation and viewing system. Wrote part of a compiler to translate between two markup languages.
• Worked on the development of a file mirroring software based on FTP written in C++, part of the Chameleon suite.
• Created several internally used interactive Web-pages using shell scripts and Perl. (used C, Object Oriented LISP, AWK, VB)
• System administration: Lead the transition from a badly designed Novell network to an NT domain cross-connected with other offices worldwide.
• The administrated local network was composed of several Intranet servers and more than 50 PCs each of them configured for three operating systems. Installation of Intranet.
• Automatization (build and bug tracking system): Implemented some major improvements to automate the time consuming tasks of the distributed build system and to improve the working environment of the engineers. Improved the common bug tracking system (DDTS now ClearCase) and the common version control system (PVCS) used by the company.

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