Kurt Mosiejczuk

585 . 310 . 2357
kurt (at) mosiejcz.uk
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Interests

Results-oriented UNIX/Windows Systems Administrator with 20+ years experience and open source OS Developer. Adept at forward-planning, problem-solving, and specification and integration of systems for a targeted userbase.

Skills

  • Languages:
  • C, Shell scripting (sh/ksh/bash), SQL, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl/Tk/Expect
  • Environments:
  • OpenBSD, Windows Server, Windows 10, Debian, Ubuntu, Solaris (2.5.1-10), CentOS
  • vCenter, ESXi, vMotion
  • Windows Active Directory, Windows Server Update Services, Netapp
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
  • Commvault, Bacula, Amanda, rsync
  • CVS, Git, Github, Gitlab
  • PF, IPFilter, PXEboot, NFS, NIS, Kerberos, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, BIND, Unbound
  • qmail, OpenSMTPd, Sendmail, Dovecot, Roundcube
  • Apache, NGINX, OpenBSD httpd
  • Nagios, Zabbix

Education

Bachelor of Science in Applied Networking and Systems Administration

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
2014

Recent Experience

Systems Reliability Engineer

Calyptix Security Corporation
June 2021 - September 2023
  • Preventative software maintenance and support for OpenBSD-based security appliances for small/medium-sized businesses
  • Cleanup and refactoring of legacy code
  • Creation of software ports to upstream and reduce maintenance burdens
  • Improved site and procedures documentation

Unix / Windows Systems Administrator

Rochester Institute of Technology
January 2004 - May 2021
  • Purchased, configured, deployed and maintained faculty and department equipment and peripherals
  • Coordinated physical access to facilities using Lenel access control systems
  • Maintained dozens of project VMs using VMWare ESXi and performed migrations
  • Direct integration of Kerberos and LDAP between AD and Linux/OpenBSD
  • Configured Ghostcast production servers and deployed hands-free installation with custom scripting
  • Managed student employees and interfaced with a multi-departmental team of IT professionals
  • Disaster planning and high-pressure patching and redeployment and intrusion response
  • Developed organizational knowledge and procedures record-keeping

OS Developer

The OpenBSD Project
2019 - Present
  • Sparc64 release and snapshot package builds
  • Porting, with a focus on Python port integration
  • Improvement of project testing infrastructure for Python ports
  • Improvement of portgen, automated software-porting infrastructure
  • Regularly created fixes for Python software and supplied them to upstream projects
  • Forked LWJGL3 and created OpenBSD support

Invited Talks

Making Your Own Console Server Using OpenBSD
BSDCan 2018
The Care and Feeding of OpenBSD Porters
vBSDCon 2019

Projects

Previous Experience

Systems Engineer

Pitney Bowes Management Systems (formerly Danka)
January 2001 - July 2002

Senior Consultant

Ciber (assigned to Danka Systems Intl)
July 2000 - January 2001
  • Designed and deployed computing and network resources for customer print sites
  • Implemented reliability infrastructure for ASP production server
  • Supported numerous customer sites

Field Engineer

Rochester Software Associates
February 1998 - July 2000
  • Developed plan allowing customers to upgrade OS, Oracle, and related components for Y2K compliance
  • Helped develop plan to consolidate company computing resources for increased performance and reliability
  • Responsible for Y2K compliance of company servers

Software Development Contractor

Manpower (for West Group)
June 1996 - February 1998
  • Participated in migrating AutoCite project to work with new database
  • Worked extensively data mining legacy database
  • Participated in automating manual processes for publishing NYCRR

Software Development Co-op

Lawyer's Cooperative Publishing (now West Group)
June 1995 - June 1996
  • Tested, debugged, and wrote user documentation for applications written in PowerBuilder
  • Coded SQL scripts to implement publication-formatting options via database tables
  • Coded helper applications cutting debug time by 75% when developing formatting option scripts