Personal Information

Name: Alexander (Sasha) Sandler

Birth date: 03/11/1979

Email: alex@alexonlinux.com

Summary

• Linux and Linux kernel expert.
• Ten years of professional software engineering.
• Exceptionally experienced with C/C++, Python, Assembler and other programming languages/environments.
• Exceptionally strong background in Linux system administration and Linux internals.
• Exceptionally strong background in multi-threaded applications.
• Exceptionally strong background in x86 and other computer architectures.
• Object Oriented Design and implementation background.

Education

03/1992 – 07/1997: Graduated high school.

10/1998 – 04/2000: Student for BS.c in Education in Technology and Science in Technion.

09/2000 – Present: Student for BS.c in Computer Science in Open University of Israel.

Courses

IBM LX20 – Linux kernel internals.

Experience

02/2010 – Present: Senior Software Engineer at Dell.

12/2009 – 01/2010: Fabrix TV.
11/2009 – 12/2009: Exanet LTD (acquired by Dell).

08/2007 – 11/2009: Software engineer at PeerApp R&D LTD.
Developed Linux kernel application for inspecting and fast forwarding network traffic.

06/2006 – 08/2007: Software engineer at ScaleMP LTD.
Developed logging over InfiniBand facility. Maintained company’s vSMP product series.

09/2005 – 06/2006: Software engineer at Metalink Broadband LTD.
Developed Linux device driver for company’s wireless 802.11n chipset, for x86 and ARM processor architectures. As part of the position developed software for reference board based on embedded Linux platform.

11/2000 – 09/2005: Senior software engineer at Storage Networking Technologies LTD.
Developed stack of block device drivers, for Linux, that implement volume manager with snapshot and mirroring capabilities. Ported the drivers from kernel 2.2 to kernel 2.4 and then to kernel 2.6. Adapted the drivers to work on Itanium and PPC64 processor architectures. Ported the drivers to Novell Netware.

04/2000 – 11/2000: Software engineer at Verysafe LTD.
Developed SNMP based management system for company’s server farm. Developed module for Apache web server.

01/2000 – 04/2000: Software engineer at SentryCom LTD.
Developed screen saver for MS. Windows. Developed voice powered logon systems for MS. Windows 2000/XP.

Off duty Experience

12/2007 – Present: www.alexonlinux.com

Personal Skills

• Self directed. Able to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communicational, interpersonal and organizational skills.
• High self education ability.

Languages

Excellent Hebrew and English. Russian is mother language.

Recommendations

Recommendations are available upon request.