Mr. Sarang Gupta
Email: sarang@sarangworld.com
Web: http://www.sarangworld.com
Telephone and address available on request

Education

• Stanford University. Master's degree in Mathematics.
• University of New Mexico. Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, summa cum laude with honors.

Skills

• Programming Languages
  • PHP, versions 3 through 5 (5+ yrs)
  • SQL, including views, stored procedures, triggers (8 yrs)
  • Perl, versions 4 and 5 (10+ yrs)
  • HTML, including frames and tables (10+ yrs)
  • C++ (2 yrs)
  • TCL/TK (2 yrs)
  • Java (2 yrs)
  • awk, sed, shell scripting and tools (10+ yrs)
• System administration tools
  • Bind 8/9, other DNS tools (dig, host, nslookup)
  • Apache (version 1.3.x)
  • nmap, satan, snoop, sniffit, other network monitoring/security tools
  • rsync, tar, ufsdump, other backup/mirroring tools
  • inetd, popd, imapd, sshd, other daemons
  • sccs, rcs, cvs (revision control tools)
  • Unix editors (emacs, ex, pico/nano)
  • Encryption and hashing (ssh tunneling, openssl, pgp/gpg, sha1sum, md5sum)
  • basic Unix command-line tools (cron, at, df, du, make, gdb, strace/truss, rdate/adjtimex, ssh, etc)
• Operating Systems
  • Solaris, versions 2.3-8 (10+ yrs)
  • Linux (8 yrs)
  • IRIX, AIX, other Unix flavors (2 yrs)
  • Windows, versions 3.1 - XP Pro, (10+ yrs, user-level only)
  • Macintosh, versions 7.3 - OS X (5+ yrs, technical assistance only)
• Databases
  • MySQL, versions 3-5 (3 yrs)
  • PostgreSQL (5 yrs)
  • Informix SE (8 yrs)
• Miscellaneous
  • Familiar with Cisco PIX firewall

Experience

System administrator/webmaster/programmer, Asian Technology Information Program (ATIP). Oct 1996 - Mar 2005

• Wrote Perl and PHP scripts to implement e-commerce sites, parse data, maintain mailing lists, enforce security measures, perform preventative maintenance, generate automatic responses, control web page access, and similar tasks.
• Provided general technical assistance to ATIP staff on PC Windows (Windows 95 through Windows XP Pro) and Macintosh (Mac OS X as well as Mac OS 9.1 and older versions of Mac OS) machines, for a variety of issues (email, web browsing, file sharing, and similar end-user tasks) and a variety of different software products (including Microsoft Office, Adobe products [Acrobat, Photoshop, Pagemaker, etc], Eudora, MIE, Netscape, Mozilla, several FTP clients including Fetch and WinFTP, others). From 2000 through 2004 inclusive, was the only IT person at ATIP.
• From 1997 through 2001 inclusive, uploaded material and maintained websites for several affiliated organizations : Japan Digest, Digitized Information, Economic Strategy Institute (ESI), Japan Policy Research Institute (JPRI)

• Created beta website where uploading, editing, content, access, and commerce are 100% controlled by PHP scripts accessing a MySQL database. Migrated large site (~10K pages) from plain HTML format to PHP/MySQL format.
• In 1997, wrote program connecting Apache to Informix db server via CGI, allowing instantaneous, per-page, time-based control of protected content access
• Automated processing of applications, posting of content to websites, updating of client information, and other routine tasks, resulting in considerable efficiency improvements.

Programmer/Analyst II, UNM Manufacturing Engineering Program. Jul 1995 - Sep 1996

• Head of three-member programming team designing and implementing front-end for manufacturing simulation game.
• Performing system administration duties on an "as needed" basis.
• Webmaster for "www-mep.unm.edu" domain (no longer maintained)

• Wrote C++ classes that comprised complete systems dynamics package, and TCL/TK front-end to manage these classes.
• Modified commercial product (Arena) to communicate with TCL/TK GUI I had written.