Lev Kantorovich
Experienced Software Professional
Email: acub12@r.postjobfree.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/levkantorovich
Location: Vero Beach, FL
Availability: Immediate
Summary
Experienced software professional with more than 19 years of industry experience with solid background in multiple stages of software development process. Innovative, problem solving, detail oriented person. During the professional career worked in wide variety of technological areas such as GPU-targeted design, architecture and implementation, kernel device driver development, TCPIP networking, network security, e-commerce.
I have experience working as in small companies as in global corporate environment. Excellent communication skills and project lead experience.
Areas of Expertise
Software Engineering, Object Oriented Design, OOP
C++, Java, TCP/IP, XML, XSLT, UML
Design, Development, Automated Testing, Debugging, Troubleshooting, VMWare
TCP/IP network Security, Software Security, Device Driver development
GPU-Accelerated Computing, CUDA, Thrust
Linux administration, embedded development, MS Windows development
Agile Methodologies, Embedded application development, AWS, Restful API
Configuration, customization, and development of e-commerce platform, SEO
Experience with graphic designing and editing software
Experience
Software Architect at Cloud Invent
2013 – 2016
Cloud Invent (www.cloud-invent.com) is a start-up company that invented technology that significantly improves performance of the geometric constraint solver – the core component of modern Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems.
As software designer, I focused on the performance issues of company technology, especially multithreaded approach since the algorithm is ideal for parallelization. Proposed and prototyped parallel solver implementation on a GPU using NVidia CUDA, C++ and CUDA Thrust toolkit. Effective interoperability with MS Windows DLLs implemented using .NET, C# also carefully tuned.
As a startup company team member participation in various technology-related negotiations with potential partners, investors and customers, prepared design proposals and presentations.
Also participated in IT infrastructure planning and setup, including configuring such AWS resources as AMI, S3 and other; also GitHub related setup.
Excellent Software Engineer
2011 - 2013
Software contracts:
Software development for engineering for ITW Building Component Group CAD system. - Robert Half Technologies.
MS Windows XP/7, C++, Win32.
Distributed order management system, security log and trace features - TrueCar Inc.
Java EE, Spring Framework, RESTful web services, Aspect-Oriented Programming.
E-Commerce Business Development at ClickMDLab (discontinued after Grammic Lab acquisition by US Labs)
2009 – 2011
ClickMDLab.com was the subsidiary of the Grammic Lab that offered deeply discounted medical laboratory test packages as an online web solution. It was an e-commerce portal, offered more than 200 different test packages.
I was responsible for design, set-up and support of the e-commerce portal, based on Magento platform. As part of responsibilities, I've created the IT infrastructure using Amazon AWS resources such as Amazon Linux AMI with the LAMP stack with dedicated IP and S3. VMWare Experience.
Also, I performed daily portal management and customer support tasks and ensured SEO-friendly characteristics of the content. Also, I organized and managed online marketing campaigns to improve organic SEO ranking. Google AdWords, Article Marketing, content optimization, various PPC engines.
Senior Software Engineer at CA
1999 – 2007
As Senior Software Engineer and Development Leader participated in following projects: eTrust Access
Control (host based IDS) – kernel components. Kernel API hooking. C, Intel 32 assembler, Microsoft
Windows DDK, WinDbg, Windows Debugging Tools. eTrust Audit - architected and designed various tools for post-factum log file analysis. Product development was against Microsoft and Linux operating systems, used cross platform toolkits for multi-platform application development.
Translation of multiple log file formats into unified XML-based form including grammar definitions for various legacy log file formats to create Abstract Syntax Tree for each format; parser generation for specific tree and processing files by corresponding parsers with following XSLT translation into target XML. Software/technologies used - Java, AntLR, and XSLT.
Development Team Leader, Research Engineer at Abirnet Ltd (acquired by CA)
1996 – 1999
As a team leader coordinated work of 2 experienced software engineers. The team was responsibility for the development high performance network kernel device drivers for MS Windows.
Designed and developed Object-Oriented kernel modules, proving concept that a kernel driver can be implemented as Object Oriented project (C++) with application of STL. Implemented on the kernel level technology for breaking up a TCP session, developed by the company. Participated in the development of the core set of Abirnet SessionWall (became CA eTrust Intrusion Detection, http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/etrust/etrust_intrusion/etrustintrusion_supp.asp ) protocol parsers such as SMTP, TCP and HTML. As research engineer was focused on signature-based misuse detection and as-automatic-as-possible network security tuning.
Development Team Leader at NetManage, Inc
1995 - 1996
R&D in area of advanced TCPIP – related technologies. Developed prototypes: Wedge for Microsoft network stack (TCPIP was primary goal) for different clones of Microsoft Windows OS available at that time - 9x and NT 4.0. The technology was integrated into company’s Chameleon suit of products and served as base for various extensions: QoS, Firewall and Encryption that helped the company to provide cutting-edge networking technologies of the time to the customers.
Software Engineer at LanOptics
1993 - 1995
Developed embedded operation systems for company-manufactured network equipment.
Participated in installation, deployment and remote technical support for international customers.
Developed Microsoft Windows-based software to remotely control hardware modules.
Education
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radio electronics.
MS, Computer Engineering, 1981 – 1986
Languages
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)
Russian (Native or bilingual proficiency)
Hebrew (Native or bilingual proficiency)
Additional interests
Cooking
AWS Infrastructure as code
AWS CloudFormation