Manu's CV

Manu Garg

Web-home: http://www.manugarg.com
Email: manugarg@gmail.com
Location: Hyderabad, India
(Address and Phone: Available on request by mail)

Overview
Over 5.5 yrs of experience in Unix and Linux systems administration with total 6.2 yrs of experience in IT industry. My specialties include Linux, FLOSS, TCP/IP and Security.

Skills

Unix/Linux Administration:

Administration of Sun Solaris and Redhat EL systems.
Backup Administration (Legato Networker and rsync)
Monitoring using Hobbit, Big Brother, SNMP and MRTG.
Apache, Sendmail, NFS and Samba server configuration.
Veritas Volume Manager administration
SAN concepts with some hands on experience on Sun and EMC SAN systems.

Virtualization:

Servers consolidation using VMWare ESX
Virtual machines administration

Clustering:

Set up high-availability clusters using Veritas Cluster Server.

Software Development:

Developed an open source SMTP client in Python and Tkinter (http://pymailer.sourceforge.net/).
Developed various web applications based on Perl/CGI
Other programming experience in C/C++, Perl, Shell and Python.

Networking:

Good understanding of networking topologies.
Good knowledge of networking protocols.
Network troubleshooting using t/ethereal, tcpdump, nmap, netcat, netstat.
Basic understanding of 802.11 based wireless networks.

Security:

iptables based firewall
Working experience with security testing tools - Nmap port scanner, Nessus vulnerability scanner, Ettercap sniffer/interceptor, Metaspoilt framework
Cryptography - Hashing, shared/public key cryptography, certificates management, SSH protocol.

Certificates and Achievements

Certified CompTIA Security+ professional
Linux Professional Institute 101
Certified Linux Technical Lead by Linux Center of Excellence, TCS.
Top ranker in the engineering graduate programme (CGPA - 9.33/10.0)
IIT-JEE, 1998 - AIR 1765

Publications

Sniffing in a Switched Network

A presentation to explain how somebody can sniff in a switched ethernet using ARP spoofing. Published on infosecwriter.com and astalavista.com.

Special Remarks: Appeared on digg.com homepage and del.icio.us popular page. Was translated to french.

Link: http://www.infosecwriters.com/texts.php?op=display&id=298

Backing Up Windows Machines Using Rsync and SSH

Technique and scripts to backup Windows machines using rsync and SSH. Published on aplawrence.com.
Link: http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/backup_rsync.html

Defeating Firewalls: Sneaking Into Office Computers From Home

Discusses the technique of using SSH tunneling to bypass corporate firewalls. Published on http://infosecwriter.com and http://astalavista.com.
Link: http://www.infosecwriters.com/text_resources/pdf/ssh_tunneling.pdf

Mighty Sockets

A small text on sockets. Published on aplawrence.com.
Link: http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/socket-programming.html

(More information available in my blog - http://www.manugarg.com/)

Work Experience:

Affiliations: Sep 2006 - Present, Unix Systems Administrator, Google India Pvt Ltd.
July 2002 - Sep 2006, Software Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

Projects Summary:

09/2006 - Till Now, Unix Systems Administrator, Google India Pvt Ltd
Location: Hyderabad, India

Provide Linux infrastructure support
...More to come later

03/2005 - 09/2006, Unix/Linux Sysadmin, GE Security
Location: Florida, USA / Mumbai, India

Set up infrastructure for gesecurity.com and other custom applications of GE Security. Infrastructure involved 4 VMWare ESXs, 50+ Linux and Unix Servers, Sun and EMC SAN storage, Big IP load balancer.

Set up backup environment using Legato Networker. This backup environment utilized a priavte backup network for LAN free backups.

Set up a high-availability Veritas Cluster(2-node and 3-node) for Oracle databases(non-RAC).
Configured Big IP load balancer for tomcat servers
Set up monitoring using Hobbit.
Support and Maintenance of Unix/Linux infrastructure of GE Security.

01/2004 - 02/2005, Unix/Linux Sysadmin, GE Healthcare,
Location: Mumbai, India/Wisconsin, USA

Supported Unix/Linux infrastructure of GE Healthcare involving 300+ servers.
Administered Solaris and Redhat Enterprise Linux servers.
Worked in a 20+ people team spread around the globe to support this infrastructure.
Set up Big Brother monitoring for these servers.

09/2003 - 12/2003, Technical Lead, Linux Center of Excellence, Tata Consultancy Services
Location: Mumbai, India

Set up development and testing environment involving VMWare and Linux for 40+ Linux CoE members.
Set up CVS for configuration management
Prepared Linux based solutions for the clients.

06/2003 - 08/2003, Designer and Developer, Integrated QA Solutions for Interwoven, GE Healthcare
Location: Mumbai, India

Designed a tool to automate quality check and deployment of web content in GE Healthcare.
Developed a tool in perl to check for broken links in web pages.
Integrated broken link checker with Interwoven Teamsite workflows and OpenDeploy.

10/2002 - 05/2003, Interwoven and Unix Administrator, Interwoven Content Management Systems, GE Healthcare
Location: Mumbai, India

Administered Interwoven CMS including Teamsite and OpenDeploy.
Administered Solaris servers running Interwoven
Develped helper applications for Interwoven using Perl.
Developed Teamsite templates and workflows using XML and Perl.

07/2002 - 09/2002, Initial Training Program, Tata Consultancy Services
Location: Trivandrum, India

Developed one project management software using Object Oriented Methodology and C++ programming lanuguage.
Went through training on fundamental computer subjects: OS, Networking, Unix etc.
Went through training on software development process and some programming languages.

Education

B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IT-BHU, Varanasi in May 2002.