Resume

Alo Sarv

Maintenance Database Programmer
Elamu Grupp OÜ

October 2002 – January 2003
Tallinn, Estonia

Maintenance programming of a medium-scale database system in MS Access / SQL / VBA.

Programmer
xMule P2P Client (based on eMule)

April 2003 – August 2003
Tartu, Estonia

Database Programmer
The Botanical Garden of the University of Tartu

February 2006 – April 2006
Tartu, Estonia

Developed an online database system for managing large list of plants and their status.
Using MySQL, PHP and HTML.

Lead Programmer and Architect
Hydranode Project (modular P2P client framework)

May 2004 – May 2006
Tartu, Estonia

Designed and developed a general-purpose cross-platform class library providing API for networking, event multiplexing, files checksumming, UPnP and network traffic scheduling (hnbase module, 14,000 lines of C++/STL/Boost code).
Designed and developed a general-purpose cross-platform class library providing API for filesharing-related functionality such as handling downloads, shared files, metadata, clients management and more (hncore module, 13,000 lines of C++/STL/Boost code).
Designed and developed eDonkey2000 networking plugin based on hncore/hnbase architecture; implemented 90% of the eDonkey2000 protocol specification (15,000 lines of C++/STL/Boost code).
Designed and developed BitTorrent networking plugin based on hncore/hnbase architecture; implemented basic Bittorrent specification (6,000 lines of C++/STL/Boost code).
Designed and developed an inter-process communication mechanism using TCP/IP networking and binary protocol to provide means of attaching local or remote user interfaces to the Hydranode core architecture. (6,000 lines of C++/STL/Boost code).
Developed graphical user interface for the Hydranode core architecture, which interacts with the Hydranode core using TCP/IP networking. (9,000 lines of C++/Qt4/Boost code).
Wrote technical documentation for all of the above-mentioned components; RFC’s and general overview documents.

Database Programmer
Omandi OÜ

June 2006 – December 2006
Pattaya, Thailand / Tartu, Estonia

Developed an intranet system for managing projects, clients and personal; scheduling projects and vacations and keeping track of inventory.
Using Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX, JavaScript, XHTML/DOM and JSON-based RPC mechanism.

Contractor / Senior Software Engineer
Jittr Networks Inc. / Vusion, Inc.

January 2007 – April 2009
Pattaya, Thailand / San Jose, US

Designed and implemented Vusion Intelligent Client and client-side smart streaming algorithms which work behind firewalls, NATs and proxies. The client also has dynamic scaling system allowing it to achieve maximum datarate even under worst network conditions.
Designed and implemented WARP peer-to-peer distributed content delivery system
Implemented a distributed TCP NAT traversal algorithm for real peer-to-peer NAT-to-NAT transfers
Designed and implemented WARP peer-to-peer system server-side components
Designed Jittr Ad & Content Exchange (JACX) interface (unreleased)

Director of Engineering, Co-Founder
Rippol Inc.

April 2009 – December 2009
Pattaya, Thailand / San Diego, US

Lead a remote team of engineers and designers to create a social video discovery website
Developed a complex AJAX/jQuery-based user interface based on design specifications
Implemented deep UI integration with Facebook and Twitter
Consulted design team in the areas of user experience and UI usability
Implemented a web spider/crawler in Python which discovers videos from various sites across the internet

LANGUAGES

COMPUTER SKILLS

Cross-platform, parallel and distributed programming in C++ (STL, Boost, Qt, wxWidgets) (7 years)
Web programming in XHTML, CSS, Javascript (jQuery) (4 years)
Scripting languages (Python, PHP) (4 years)
User experience analysis and UI design (4 years)
MySQL database design and administration
Linux servers setup, administration and maintenance
Writing technical design documentation and analysis

INTERESTS