Kamil Kisiel

2 - 5635 Patterson Avenue
Burnaby, British Columbia
V5H 2M6
Canada

Phone: 778-893-1337
Email: kamil@kamilkisiel.net
Web: http://www.kamilkisiel.net

Employment

• September 2007 - Present: HPC Systems Engineer
  Zymeworks Inc. (http://www.zymeworks.com), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  Developing and maintaining computer infrastructure for rapidly evolving company with extreme computing demands. Projects include:

  • Design and maintenance of high performance computing cluster systems using PBS/Torque, OpenMPI, diskless PXE boot, Infiniband interconnect. Development of custom cluster provisioning and management tools in Python and Perl.
  • Deployment of high availability network services with redundant hardware and software failover using Heartbeat or Pacemaker/OpenAIS
  • Deployment of virutalization infrastruture with the Xen hypervisor and clustered iSCSI SAN.
  • Architecture and deployment of high-availability NFS and Xen servers using Heartbeat, OpenAIS, and Pacemaker.
  • Development of a network-wide revision-controlled configuration management system using Bcfg2, Trac, and Subversion
  • Deployment of SNMP-based network monitoring system, including development of custom Net-SNMP extensions in Python
  • Administration of developer resources including library and build environment, test and production system images, automated test infrastructure, and development tools
  • Maintenance of company-wide Trac wiki including development of custom plugins using Python
  • Integration of Linux environment with Mac OS X directory services through LDAP and Kerberos

• June 2006 - May 2007: CAD Software Developer (Intern)
  Armonicos Co. Ltd. (http://www.armonicos.co.jp), Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka, Japan

  Researched and developed a new 3D mechanical CAD algorithm for geometric model separation. Designed and implemented various features for new and legacy CAD products using C++ in a Windows environment.

• May 2005 - September 2005: Systems Test Engineer (Intern)
  Sierra Wireless Inc. (http://www.sierrawireless.com), Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

  Field and systems testing of cellular phone and PC card products. Developed and tested test and manufactureing automation applications.

• May 2004 - December 2004: IT Helpdesk Support (Intern)
  PMC Sierra Inc. (http://www.pmc-sierra.com), Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

  Solved company internal IT software, hardware, and networking problems.

• July 2001 - September 2002: Summer Camp Instructor
  Douglas College Summer Camps (http://www.douglas.bc.ca), New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

  Created camp curriculum focusing on web design and desktop publishing for computer section of camps. Taught summer camps for children aged 7-15.

Community Contributions

• Bcfg2 - Patches, documentation, concepts and IRC support (#bcfg2 on irc.freenode.org)
• Freenode - Provide support for numerous open source projects in several IRC channels (#vim, #bcfg2, #hpc #nfs)
• ServerFault - Active community member, in Top 40 of site users.

Skills

Technical

• Programming with Python, C and C++ on Linux and Windows. Familiarity with standard libraries and programming best practices

• Use and administration of project management tools: Subversion, Mercurial, Trac, Review Board

• Centralized Linux network management using a configuration managed approach

• Familiarity with SUSE, Gentoo, Debian, and Ubuntu Linux distributions. Packaging with RPM or Gentoo ebuilds

• Over 10 years experience working with Linux and Open Source software ecosystems

• OpenBSD-based router/gateway installation and administration. Pf firewall configuration

• Web site development with standards-compliant HTML and CSS. Database-driven back-end design with Python

• Digital hardware circuit design, PCB layout, soldering

Non-Technical

• Fluent Polish speaker, Intermediate reading and writing

• Basic Japanese conversation and reading comprehension

Education

2002-2008 - Bachelor of Applied Science - Computer Engineering
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
Co-op program including seven 4-month terms of work experience

Achievements

For my degree's senior design project my group designed and constructed a prototype of an 8 channel USB audio and MIDI guitar interface. The project placed 1st in the Innovative Design category of the regional Western Engineering Competition (WEC) and 3rd in the national Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC). I was responsible for the concept, high level design, and hardware development.

Interests

• Photography

• Classical and rock guitar, Taiko drumming.

• Travel.

• Rock climbing, kayaking, backpacking.