Aleksandr Tsertkov

Current

• Lead Web Developer at Crytek
• Owner at Jaer Technologies

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Modera Software Ltd
• System administrator at Self-employed
• PHP programmer at E-Finance

• Webmaster at Self-employed
• System administrator, programmer, teacher at Kohtla-Jarve Technical School
• Database developer at Narva Business Advisory Services

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Education

• Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
• Tallinna Tehnikaülikool

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My blog (devhands.com)

Aleksandr Tsertkov’s Summary

Certified software engineer with a strong Unix/Linux system administrator background experienced in Web software development, Web services, Content management systems, TCP/IP networking protocols and long-term projects.

Idealist (Teacher) temperament according to David Kiersey personality test.

Aleksandr Tsertkov’s Specialties:

Web application development (PHP, Perl, Python), xHTML, CSS, XML/XSL, JavaScript (YUI, jQuery, ExtJS), ActionScript, Delphi (Pascal), Database Design, SQL, PL/SQL, Linux/Unix systems, AWS (Amazon Web Services). Basic knowledge of C/C++, Java, Ruby.

Aleksandr Tsertkov’s Experience

• Lead Web Developer

  Crytek

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  April 2009 — Present (9 months)

  Managing web development team, managing server based development environment, designing architecture for a huge web application

• Owner

  Jaer Technologies

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Privately held IT consulting company.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Modera Software Ltd

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2005 — April 2009 (3 years 7 months)

  My main task in Modera was developing and maintaining Modera.net platform which is used as a base layer for all Modera products including Modera Webmaster, Modera Intranet, Modera Extranet, Modera Relations.
  
  I was responsible for release management, managing remote development team and maintaining Modera PEAR channel (http://pear.modera.net/).
  
  I was acting as a release manager for Modera.net platform and Modera Webmaster and maintaining centralized server-based development environment.
  
  Below is a list of major components developed by myself for Modera:
  - Comprehensive i18n(internationalization) engine with plural word forms support;
  - Database access layer with placeholders engine for SQL injection attacks protection;
  - Workflow engine;
  - Versioning storage engine;
  - JavaScript content tree with Drag&Drop support of page items (AJAX);
  - Web-based application installer;
  - Console-based installation scripts used by PEAR packages;

• System administrator

  Self-employed

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 6 months)

  Setup and maintenance Internet service provider servers based on Gentoo Linux. Routing, WiFi, VoIP, advanced traffic shaping, firewalling, Apache, MySQL, Postfix, BIND, ProFTPD, Samba, etc. Developing web based client management application.

• PHP programmer

  E-Finance

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2005 — October 2005 (7 months)

  Programming, database designing, web UI designing, developing complex web systems. During this working period in I've took part in development of international web portal CV Market (www.cvkeskus.ee). I worked as a programmer then progressed to a team leader for Hydra (www.hydra.ee) project. Among other things I developed framework for writing flexible HTML parsers (based on XPath - XML Path Language) and multithreading web-spider engine.

• Webmaster

  Self-employed

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  Internet portal development and maintenance.

• System administrator, programmer, teacher

  Kohtla-Jarve Technical School

  (Higher Education industry)

  September 2001 — June 2004 (2 years 10 months)

  FreeBSD & Gentoo Linux maintenance. DHCP, DNS, Apache, Firebird, MySQL, FTP and other services configuration and maintenance. Web application programming (PHP), MySQL database developing, web design. SQL (ansi92), PASCAL and PHP teacher.

• Database developer

  Narva Business Advisory Services

  (Financial Services industry)

  May 2000 — September 2000 (5 months)

  Microsoft Access database development. Practice work during study time.

Aleksandr Tsertkov’s Education

• Tallinna Tehnikaülikool

  Higher education , Information Technology / Software Engineering , 2001 — 2004

• Tallinna Tehnikaülikool

  Technical education , Software programming , 1996 — 2001

Additional Information

Aleksandr Tsertkov’s Websites:

• My blog (devhands.com)

Aleksandr Tsertkov’s Interests:

programming, new technology, traveling, skiing, boxing

Aleksandr Tsertkov’s Groups:

Estonian UNESCO Youth Association

•    LinkedPHPers - The Largest PHP Group
•    Zend Certified Engineers
•    Open Source Universe
•    Zend Framework Developers

Aleksandr Tsertkov’s Honors:

Zend PHP 5 Certified Engineer
http://www.zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND004818

Aleksandr Tsertkov’s Contact Settings

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