YURY IZRAILEVSKY

28017 Fallbrook Drive

Hayward, CA 94542

(650)483-5560

izrailev@yahoo.com

Objective

Engineering Leadership Position in a Vital High Tech Company

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

Education

MS Computer Science, University of Utah

BS Computer Science (with Honors) / Minor in Mathematics, University of Utah

Expertise

Proficiency in the Following Technical Areas:

·     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

Platforms

Standards

 

Languages

·     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, Delphi, MIPS / SPARC Assembly

Employment

Director of Engineering, Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

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

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

 

NFS Team Lead, Decru, Inc., Redwood City, CA [Acquired by Network Appliance Corp.  in 2005]

·     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

Director of AI Development, Vitality WebSystems, Redwood City,CA

·     Led the initiative to leverage Vitality WebSystems artificial intelligence technology in strategic alliances with other companies

12/00 to 09/01

Sr. AI Engineer, Vitality WebSystems, Redwood City, CA

·     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

Research Assistant, Distributed Systems Group, Computer Science Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

·     Developed a persistent object support layer for a Distributed Shared Memory System

08/98 to 09/99

Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Stottler Henke Associates, San Mateo, CA

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

Research Assistant, GRECC Research Group, Salt Lake Department of Veterans Administration, Salt Lake City, UT

·     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

Publications:

 

·     Supporting Persistent C++ Objects in a Distributed Shared Environment. A.Ranganathan, Y.Izrailevsky, S.Susarla, J.Carter, G.Lindstrom. Proceedings WCSSS '99. Atlanta, GA, May 1999. p.64-71.

·     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, Crlson SK,Anderson FJ, Ingles LA, Regis JA, Coleman KS, Izrailevsky Y, Grenger DL. Clinical Infectious Diseases. Volume 23, Number 4. October 1996.

Honors & Achievements

·     Several patents in large-scale data management pending with the U.S. Patent Office.

·     USENIX Grant for the 3rd Symposium in OSDI, New Orleans, LA, February ’99.

·     Dean’s Honors at Graduation, 1997

·     1994/95 Presidential Award for Outstanding Scholastic Achievement, University of Utah.

·     Member of USENIX, ACM, Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society)

Languages

Russian, Hebrew