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YURY IZRAILEVSKY
(650)483-5560
izrailev@yahoo.com
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Objective
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Engineering Leadership
Position in a Vital High Tech Company |
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Profile |
· 13 years of R&D experience specializing
in Large-Scale Distributed Systems · 8 years of engineering management
experience, solid track record of increasing responsibility · Ability to direct complex projects
from inception to realization · Goal-oriented, highly organized
individual with strong leadership skills |
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Education |
MS
Computer Science, BS Computer Science (with Honors) / Minor in
Mathematics, |
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Expertise |
Proficiency in
the Following Technical Areas:
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Web Search Technology [Algorithmic Web Search, Sponsored Search] ·
Data Warehousing [ETL/Data Integration, Data Mining, Relational
Databases] ·
Distributed Systems [Cloud/Grid Computing, Cluster Management, Networks] ·
Security [Data Encryption, Secure Authentication] ·
Artificial
Intelligence [Decision Support, Machine Learning, Neural/Bayesian Nets] Management/Supervision Experience
· Directing
a multi-functional group of 30+ engineers, managers and architects · Coordinated recruitment of 100+
employees (Engineers, Managers, QA, PM, etc.) · Successfully implemented numerous new
projects from inception to operational stage · Have solid track record for on-time
project delivery · Provided regular performance metrics
and staff achievement assessment reposts
· Managed multi-million-dollar CapEx budgets |
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Platforms Standards Languages |
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UNIX/Linux,
kernel development in BSD; Oracle/MySQL; Apache; MS
Windows ·
NFS,
SSL, TCP/IP,UDP, JNI, MFC ·
Advanced
encryption/authentication (3DES, PGP, Kerberos, etc.) ·
C/C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Shell Scripts, VB, |
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Employment |
Director of Engineering,
Yahoo! Inc., Senior
Engineering Manager, Yahoo! Inc. Engineering
Manger, Yahoo!, Inc. Yahoo Search
Engine Core & Runtime · Directing the Runtime group (30+
engineers), responsible for all of the query processing components of
Yahoo!’s Web Search Engine · Architecting and developing large
scale real-time distributed systems (tens of thousands of nodes) to support
millisecond query latency · Designing advanced cluster management,
load balancing, failover & recovery algorithms · Coordinating several Sponsored Search technology
initiatives · Cross-functional project coordination
and roadmap development |
12/02-present |
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Yahoo! Data
Warehouse · Successfully built, maintained world’s
largest Data Warehouse · Second-level manager of 20+ engineers
and architects divided into five engineering teams: Warehouse Infrastructure,
Data Integration, ETL Infrastructure, International and Advertising Data
Warehouse · Capacity planning for Hardware /
Network / Colo space |
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NFS Team Lead, Decru, Inc., ·
Responsible
for the NFS product in DataFortE440, a gigabit-rate appliance providing data
encryption and virtualization for networked storage systems · Worked with a team to design and
implement security and maintain consistency for large volumes of encrypted
data in a distributed environment |
05/01 to 12/02 |
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Director of
AI Development, Vitality WebSystems, ·
Led the initiative to leverage Vitality WebSystems
artificial intelligence technology in strategic alliances with other
companies |
12/00 to 09/01 |
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Sr. AI Engineer, Vitality WebSystems, ·
Led the project to design and developed AI-based
solutions to provide efficient creation, management, and access to
information in interactive fitness, athletic performance, nutrition, etc. ·
Worked
with domain experts to extract and model domain knowledge for customized
fitness progrm generation ·
Used
data mining to perform feature extraction on aggregate data sets |
10/99 to 12/00 |
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Research Assistant, Distributed
Systems Group, Computer Science Department, · Developed a persistent object support
layer for a Distributed Shared Memory System |
08/98 to 09/99 |
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Artificial Intelligence
Engineer, Stottler Henke Associates, Worked on design and
implementation of several projects for the U.S. Department of Defense and
NASA, including: ·
Tactical
Battleship simulation (US Navy) ·
Several
Intelligent Tutoring Systems and simulations (US Air Force, NASA) ·
Virtual
Reality-based graphical document storage system (US Air Force) |
08/97 to 08/98 |
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Research Assistant, GRECC Research Group, Salt
Lake Department of Veterans Administration, ·
VA's
national interdisciplinary patient assessment/treatment record software ·
Object
oriented programming, statistical analysis, decision-support systems ·
Java
technology and relational databases ·
Developed
cross-platform applications in the field of Medical Informatics |
9/95 to 6/97 |
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Publications: |
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Supporting
Persistent C++ Objects in a Distributed Shared Environment. A.Ranganathan, Y.Izrailevsky, S.Susarla, J.Carter, G.Lindstrom. Proceedings WCSSS '99. ·
Using
Khazana to Support Distributed Application
Development. Sai Susarla,
Anand Ranganathan, Yury Izrailevsky, John Carter.
Technical Report # UU-CS-TR-99-008. ·
Comparison
of Oral and Tympanic Temperatures in a Veterans Administration (VA)
Outpatient Clinic. Abolnik IZ,Kithas PA, |
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Honors & Achievements |
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Several
patents in large-scale data management pending with the U.S. Patent Office. ·
USENIX
Grant for the 3rd Symposium in OSDI, · Dean’s Honors at Graduation, 1997 · 1994/95 Presidential Award for
Outstanding Scholastic Achievement, · Member of USENIX, ACM, Tau Beta Pi
(National Engineering Honor Society) |
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Languages |
Russian, Hebrew |
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