Alex Newman

• Cloudera Enterprise (Closed Source)
• One of the key architects and developers for our activity monitoring tool
• Some front end application development for Cloudera Resource Monitor and Cloudera User Manager 
• Platform (Open Source)
• Regular Contributor: HBase and Hue 
• Contributor: Zookeeper and Flume 

I currently am a software engineer for the quotes storage group at Factset. We are responsible for storing, retrieving, and rebroadcasting all of the ticker level information at FactSet. We also manage numerous caches and provide data to a variety of platforms.

From May of 2007 to December of 2008 I worked for News Content. I mainly worked on parsing and integrating news feeds into a variety of search datastores. The news feeds were from local stock exchanges, financial services companies and financial news sources.

Projects:

• Time and Sales:
  Architected, developed and lead the implementation of a backend for storage, retrieval and calculations on the history of the stockmarket.
  
  
• FDS analytics and Deep History:
  Managed the normalization and munging of over 200 TB of financial data with hadoop and map reduce.
  Adapted the infrastructure to be used as a correlation engine, usage engine, and log processing system.
  
  
• News Special projects:
  Architected, developed and implemented a http based sourcelinking service. This allowed clients to quickly tell where the original source of their financial data, even with temporary access to files.
  
  
• Distributed Job Management:
  Managed a project to develop a Reliable Distributed Job Management system.

• Developed and Deployed a Code Review Framework:
  Deployed and manage a web-based code reviewing system.

Achievements:

• Presented at the FDS developer conference on uses of Map Reduce distributed computing clusters at FDS, after only 1 year of employment.
•  I regularly run topicals to "Bring fire to the Natives".

Projects:

• KB6:
  KB6 is a unique platform for the study and mitigation of complex vulnerability chains.
  
  
• DDI:
  A collaboration of machine learning and communications to improve network security.
  
  
• Research in Virtualization and Simulation for hardware based fast spreading worm containment.
• Developed a Malware Containment Facility where unsafe code can be tested in a safe environment.
• Linux kernel coding for testing new prototype hardware.

Projects:

• CLASP:
  CLASP (Comprehensive, Lightweight Application Security Process) provides a well-organized and structured approach for moving security concerns into the early stages of the software development life-cycle, whenever possible. Now integrated into the OWasp project in which I am listed as a previous author. OWasp is quoted in numerous standards including PCI-DSS.

Achievements:

• A coauthor of CLASP http://www.securesoftware.com/process/download_clasp.html
• Python and Java coding to create a headless interface for Code Assure's Java analysis.

Projects:

• The Wu Li Terrapin:
  A commercial wireless customer head-end with support for complex traffic engineering and QOS. Installation of numerous wireless networks for multiple ISPs as a last miles solution in metropolitan and suburban areas.
  
  
• The Wu Li Egg:
  Developed mass production system for ad-hoc networking products.

Projects:

• Developed a Specialized Linux distribution.