Resume' of Patrick Galbraith

July 2009 to current (Engineering staff member)

Ported memcached and libmemcached to Microsoft Windows platforms using mingw (GNU Compiler Collection)
Released Drizzle Memcached Functions (UDF)
Released Drizzle sleep() UDF
Released several versions of Memcached Functions for MySQL (UDF)
Released DBD::drizzle Perl driver for Drizzle
Various releases of DBD::mysql (Perl MySQL database client)
Implemented automated build system using Buildbot, producing Windows binaries for company product
Contributed to the development of moxi (memcached proxy)
Tested various monitoring and system automation schemes. Implemented monitoring using Nagios and Cacti, automation using Puppet.
Tested serveral key/value stores as solutions for scale-out including Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant. Added Tokyo Cabinet support to internal key/value testing tool (C++)

Implemented support for PHP and MySQL for Tripod users. This included: Integrating back-end database PHP and MySQL database servers into the existing Tripod infrastructure, modifying various PHP applications (Drupal, Gallery, Joomla, Mediawiki, etc) as well as implementing a PHP application installer and MySQL database administration tool.
Migrated various applications from using Oracle to MySQL
Provided MySQL consultation to operations group

Designed, implemented, and managed Database Architecture schema and infrastructure, consisting of multiple-master, multiple-slave replication
Built mod_perl web applications, back-end server applications to support Grazr Web 2.0 applications
Developed Grazr Database User Defined Functions (UDF) and grazrd socket server used for initiating back-end, event-driven processing initiated from within MySQL.
Implementated Search Engine functionality using Sphinx SQL Fulltext Search Engine
Designed and implemented database scaling using the blackhole storage engine in conjunction with replication.
Implemented system monitoring with Nagios and performance measurement with Cacti
Set up remote data center to host development machines

Designed, Developed, and implemented MySQL Federated Storage Engine. Added SQL Language support to the MySQL parser to support Federated.
Maintainer and developer of DBD::mysql perl database driver. Implemented prepared-statement support as well as other features, enhancements and bug-fixes. Respond to community requests and questions.
Developed mysqlslap MySQL benchmarking and load emulation tool.
Worked as a member of the Falcon Storage Engine team
Fixed bugs and added features to various MySQL server and client components such as mysqldump backup utility and database partitioning
Developed server build automation tools, including Windows MySQL server binary builds.
Assumed role as build engineer and produced various MySQL server binary releases.
Developed various utilities to assist docs team in producing DocBook XML-based documentation.

Re-architected Slashdot.org software and re-released as a well-managed open source project.
Managed core development team.
Stabilized Slashdot.org by reconfiguring and optimizing application database and source code, server hardware, and server OS. Normalised database for better performance.
Developed many code features in Slash (mod_perl-based) including site administration UIs, traffic management functionality, security enhancements, content filtering, and user management UIs.
Developed and implemented systems configuration, both in capacity and security setup of database and web servers.
Developed database-driven detection and reporting tools used to control robots and unusually excessive web client hits.
Launched Slashcode.com.
Performed code design and review of Slash codebase. Documented entire codebase and created ERD for existing database schema.
Re-architected Linux.com and Newsforge.com news sites. Developed new features and migrated data from existing website databases.
Develped and Launched Sourceforge Foundries.

Technical Manager of applications group.
Developed database-driven web applications for automotive manufacturers and dealers.
Performed DBA tasks such as database schema design, implementing database monitoring tools, and working with Oracle Technical Services for initial Oracle implementation.
Developed data importation utilities to accommodate various forms of exported data from multiple sources to Oracle and MySQL.
Developed intranet for Toyota with on-line employee training and performance tools.
Developed an email harvesting application.
Developed a VIN decoding application.

Developed and launched web sites for daily local area newspapers Eastside Journal, South County Journal, The Daily Times, and Mercer Island Reporter.
Automated delivery of editorial content to web sites.
Developed complete automation of Ad One Classified Network data to publish classifieds on web sites.
Performed Sytems adminstration duties including security setup and configuration, Operating system installation, Web Server Configuration as well as router and network configuration