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<h2 class="lg bold">Brian Sakal</h2>
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<label class="bold">Address</label>
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225 Van Houten Ave.<br />
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Passaic, NJ 07055<br />
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(305) 930-0248<br />
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<label class="bold">Email</label>
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<div>brian@sakal.us</div>
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<section class="employment">
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<div class="bold">Employment</div>
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<div class="sm italic right">(Most recent first)</div>
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<span class="bold">Senior Full-Stack Developer,</span>
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<span>TorahAnytime.com, Flushing, NY</span>
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<div class="italic right">June 2022–Present</div>
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Fixed/troubleshooted bugs and added features across multiple
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legacy codebases
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<li>Consolidated cloud resources by using Kubernetes.</li>
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<li>
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Successfully transitioned a top-level domain from a
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self-hosted legacy site frontend by Cloudflare and nginx, to
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one hosted by Vercel, while maintaining custom routes that
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were handled by nginx and keeping the legacy site online
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under a subdomain.
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</li>
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<li>
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Setup CI/CD pipelines with DroneCI and Gitlab; in addition
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to locally-runnable deploy scripts which reduced
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time-to-deployment from 5 minutes to 15 seconds.
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<li>
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Setup Clickhouse for analytics and as a read-only copy of
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MySQL data. Reduced query times from minutes to fractions of
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a second.
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<li>
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Implemented a revamped phone system using a finite-state
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machine. Content from the site is available and browsable by
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phone, dynamically.
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<li>
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Setup supporting services in Kubernetes, such as Gitlab,
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OpenTelemetry, a private Docker registry, a private NPM
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registry, Grafana, and others. Transcoder pipeline
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troubleshooting time was halved using OpenTelemetry tracing,
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with spans stored in self-hosted Clickhouse, visualized in
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Grafana.
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Worked with (in no particular order): Node.js, Redis, MySQL,
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PostgreSQL, RethinkDB, Elasticsearch, Clickhouse, Docker,
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Nomad, Consul, Kubernetes, Helm, nginx, DigitalOcean
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Droplets, Vercel, S3, Cloudflare, Express.js, React, React
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Native, Next.js, Swagger
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</ul>
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<span class="bold">Assistant Manager,</span>
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<span
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>Sureknit Inc. Property Management, East Flatbush, NY</span
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<div class="italic right">February 2020–June 2022</div>
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<li>Kept accurate records of tenant rent payments.</li>
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Balanced and monitored bank accounts for all subsidiary
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companies.
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Furnished necessary documentation for various real estate
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operations, such as new leases, property sales, etc.
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</ul>
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<span class="bold">Architect Intern,</span>
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<span>Sandy Hacohen, Flushing, NY</span>
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<div class="italic right">July 2018–November 2018</div>
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Produced architectural drawings of various points-of-view
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based on given floorplans.
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<li>Adjusted existing floorplans to spec.</li>
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<span class="bold">Operations Manager,</span>
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<span>Tax Opportunities America, Flushing, NY</span>
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<div class="italic right">April 2014–May 2015</div>
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Interfaced with clients, prepared necessary documentation
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and submitted applications to government programs on behalf
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of clients.
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Monitored and accommodated deadlines, missing client data,
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and when client promised to have the data available
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<span class="bold">Representative,</span>
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<span
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>Computer-Aided Engineering Network (CAEN) Hotline, U. of
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Michigan</span
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<div class="italic right">2007–2009, 2010–2011</div>
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Provided first-response assistance to students and
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collecting pertinent information to arrange for involvement
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of specialized staff.
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<div class="bold">Projects/Hobbies</div>
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<span class="bold"
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>Self-host email for the sakal.us domain</span
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>Hosted on Vultr, uses Postfix for SMTP and Dovecot for
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IMAP.</span
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<span class="bold">Self-host a Kubernetes cluster</span>
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>Uses the k3s implementation. Various services are deployed
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within, including a private Docker image registry. TLS
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certificates for the Ingresses are handled by
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<code>cert-manager</code>. Private coding projects are also
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deployed within.</span
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<span class="bold">Self-host a Gitea code repository</span>
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>Deployed within the above Kubernetes cluster. Available at
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<a href="https://git.sakal.us/">https://git.sakal.us</a></span
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<span class="bold">Calendar Optimizer project</span>
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>The beginnings of a stock options research platform. Frontend
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uses Preact, backend application layer uses trpc, database is
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Clickhouse. Available at
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<a href="https://calendar-optimizer-frontend.sakal.us"
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>https://calendar-optimizer-frontend.sakal.us</a
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>.</span
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<span class="bold">Custom Full-Stack eCommerce website</span>
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<span
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>Created custom e-commerce website, both front-end and
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back-end, from scratch; was at piazzaoptical.com (code at
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<a href="https://git.sakal.us/avraham/piazzaoptical.com"
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>https://git.sakal.us/avraham/piazzaoptical.com</a
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>). Frontend was implemented in
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<a href="https://mithril.js.org/">mithril.js</a>. For the
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backend, nginx was setup as reverse proxy and TLS termination;
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but the application code was implemented with
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<a href="https://luajit.org/">LuaJIT</a> using
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<a href="https://daurnimator.github.io/lua-http/0.4/"
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>lua-http</a
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>. The database was an
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<a href="http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/">LMDB</a> KV store library
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running as part of the LuaJIT app server using
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<a href="https://github.com/shmul/lightningmdb"
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>lightningmdb</a
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Lua bindings; rolled-my-own wrapper around this so as to store
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JSON objects (in the form of compressed Lua tables using
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<a href="https://github.com/gvx/bitser">bitser</a>).</span
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<section class="relevant-skills">
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<div class="bold">Skills/Technologies</div>
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<li>Docker</li>
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<li>DevOps (Logging, Monitoring, Grafana, CI/CD)</li>
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<li>Kubernetes</li>
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<li>Node JS</li>
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<li>Javascript/Typescript</li>
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<li>React</li>
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<li>MySQL/PostgreSQL</li>
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<li>Elasticsearch</li>
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<li>Clickhouse</li>
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<li>Linux</li>
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<li>Cloudflare</li>
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<span class="bold">Education</span>
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<span class="bold">B.S. in Aerospace Engineering,</span>
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<span>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI</span>
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Sept. 2006–April 2009, Sept. 2010–April 2011
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<div class="italic right">GPA 3.185</div>
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<span class="bold">Ph.D. in Rabbinics,</span>
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<span>Rabbinical Seminary of America, Flushing, NY</span>
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April 2009–April 2010, April 2011–January 2020
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