Janos Farkas

Current

Network Support Engineer at F5 Networks

Past

Senior Systems Administrator at Walt Disney Internet Group
Support Engineer at Deverto Systems Ltd.
System Administrator at Láng Kereskedelmi Kft.

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Education

Banki Donat - Budapest Tech
Berzsenyi Dániel Gimnázium

Connections

94 connections

Industry

Internet

Janos Farkas’s Summary

Janos Farkas’s Specialties:

Expertise running networked infrastructure on free and open source software. Original author of the Linux in-kernel romfs filesystem.

Janos Farkas’s Experience

Senior Systems Administrator

Walt Disney Internet Group

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DIS; Internet industry)

February 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 7 months)

• Supporting Linux/Java based shared web publishing and -serving environments for major non-domestic agencies
• Deploying, troubleshooting, monitoring and development support of Java applications on Linux (Tomcat, iPlanet, weblogic, resin)
• Troubleshooting, capacity planning, monitoring services in several data centers (HP OpenView, SiteScope, cacti)
• 7x24 on call/2nd-3rd Level level support for incidents/inquiries, including MS-SQL, mysql, Red Hat Linux & Windows 2000/2003
• Following ITIL based processes to handle incidents/configuration management (including HP ServiceDesk, Remedy and Trac)
Support Engineer

Deverto Systems Ltd.

(Telecommunications industry)

April 2006 — January 2007 (10 months)

• Pre-sales demonstration of VoIP softswitch, holding training about advanced VoIP features
• Building/customising softswitch configuration for client projects; working on Centrex/VR features, call authentication/billing, and specialized requirements
• Troubleshooting VoIP configurations on all levels from networking to device interoperability
System Administrator

Láng Kereskedelmi Kft.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Automotive industry)

February 1999 — April 2006 (7 years 3 months)

• Supervising network security, availability of networks; troubleshooting servers, applications, infrastructure (Linux servers across the country, Red Hat, SuSE, Debian and in-house versions, Sparc based Solaris 2.x)
• Implementing and maintaining supporting infrastructure: printing, mail, file, DNS; various supporting/glue scripts (qmail, mailfront, dspam, clamav, Samba 2.x-3.x, djbdns, bind)
• Supporting and debugging, and maintaining intranet applications (Apache 1.x/2.x, mod_perl, perl 5, php 3/4, PostgreSQL 6-8)
• Supporting the in-house e-commerce application; off-line ordering system later replaced by an internet based, and finally a web-shop based one, interfacing the application with the ERP system, and an Oracle DB with parts information
• Operating the Progress 4GL based ERP system (Proteus); backups, tuning