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Valentin Kuznetsov

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	PROFILE A DataScientist and Researcher with more than 20 years of professional experience in software engineering, data management, data discovery and BigData/Analytics.
	PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2014 - present	Advisory Board Member University of Washington, Data Science Program
2003 - present	Data scientist and software engineer, Cornell University, NY Work for CMS :: LHC :: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Co-leader of CMS monitoring, web development groups. Perform various projects in Data Science and Analytics: CMS computing analytics, dataset popularity, MLaaS for HEP; Monitoring: oversee CMS monitoring infrastructure; Orchestration: migration of cmsweb cluster to Kubernetes; Design and Development of CMS data management systems, such as archive for distributed worklow management, Data Discovery and Data Aggregation systems, File Transfer toolkit, Workflow management and reconstruction frameworks. [More] Projects Machine Learning as a Service for HEP Investigated, designed, and implemented cmsweb migration from VM to Kubernetes CMS analytics Analytics for CMS computing monitoring Archive solution for distributed Workflow Management system Data Aggregation system DBS Query Language Data Bookkeeping System Work for CLEO-c collaboration at Cornell, NY, USA. Build EventStore data management system, low-level I/O framework for data access, meta-data web-service and port Cleo-c software among different UNIX platform.
1999 - 2003	Post. doctoral researcher and software engineer at UC Riverside. Work at Fermi National Laboratory (FNAL) for D-Zero experiment. Co-lead software development group for D0 global tracking project. Built track reconstruction software framework and develop tracking algorithms based on Kalman filter. Perform UNIX administration, support and management of D-Zero software.
1998 - 1999	Research Associate and software engineer at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Work for NOMAD-STAR collaboration. Design and implementation of NOMAD-STAR software, including track reconstruction, digitization, visualization and data management. Leader of software development group.
1993 - 1998	Junior Research Associate Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia. Research in a field of neutrino oscillations, neutrino propagation through Various studies in theoretical physics, data analysis and matrix calculations. matter and electromagnetic properties of neutrinos (part of Ph.D thesis). Unix administration, Monte Carlo simulations of various physics processes.
	TECHNICAL SKILLS Buzzwords: » Programming experience: fluent in Python, Go, intermediate experience/past knowledge in C++, Erlang, R, C, JavaScript; UNIX tools. » Big Data/Analytics: Hadoop, HDFS, Map-Reduce, Spark, ElasticSearch, Machine Learning; » Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes; » Monitoring: Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus; » Web technologies: HTML, CSS, REST, AJAX, JSON, XML; » Databases: SQLite, MySQL, ORACLE, MongoDB, CouchDB; » Security: SSH, Nmap, firewalls (iptables); » Version Control Systems: GIT, SVN, CVS; » Package management: make, RPM, APT, ports; » OS: Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X; » Process and Testing: Agile, Prototyping, Mock-up, Unit tests. Tasks and procedures: » system and maintenance planning, installation and documentation; » software design and implementation; » kernel installation and tuning; » building, installing and remotely deploying software; » designing, configuring, and supporting web applications; » building web sites and their integration with databases; » planing and implementing system security; » shell programming; » backup planning and management; » mentoring students, project planning, group coordination;
	EDUCATION AND TRAINING Certificates » CERN-CMS k8s achievement award » CERN-HSF Mentor Google Summer of Code 2017 » Data Science » Introduction to Apache Spark » Distributed Machine Learning with Apache Spark 2016, edX/Berkley online course » Data Science and Engineering with Spark 2015, Chicago, IL » Advanced Python Mastery 2013, Certificate Data Science Program, Univ. of Washington, WA, USA Introduction to Data Science, Methods for Data Analysis, Deriving Knowledge from Data at Scale 2003-present, Computer Science department, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA Data-driven Web Applications, Computer Networks, SQL training, The Architecture of Large-Scale Information Systems 1999-2003, Training at Fermi National Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA Object-Oriented Design and Programming in C++, Fast Track to Objects, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design using UML 1999, Ph.D. in Physics (PDF), Joint Institute For Nuclear Research, Russia
	ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT Experience in leadership of small and medium size groups. Skillful organizer with experience in long-term research projects. Experience of work as a member of large, small and international teams. Familiar with handling of research grants and purchasing of equipment. Day-by-day advice and leadership of students.
	PERSONAL Languages: Russian (native), English, French (basic). Self-motivating with good communication and interpersonal skills. Fast learner in programming languages. A full list publications is available upon request. Employment is fully authorized.