Vanco Buca

Objective

A developer position in a dynamic environment of a startup or small company that allows me to use my wide range of analytical, design, and programming skills.

Skills

Ten years of experience in software development: design, implementation, optimization and maintenance.

Extensive experience in building infrastructures: data models, generic libraries, and inter-module communication protocols.

Expert knowledge of C++, its OO facilities, templates, STL, and several of the Boost libraries
Object Oriented design, Design patterns, Template metaprogramming
Scripting: Python, Perl, Tcl, various shell script flavors
Strong analytical and mentoring skills
Writing general-purpose, modular, highly reusable code.
Building distributed, highly-scalable systems
Domain expertise: Search engines; Networking software; Compression algorithms; VLSI design software

Experience

Apr 2007 – present Wink.com

Principal Engineer

Was responsible for development and maintenance of the Wink Search Engine. Wrote several of the subsystems of the search engine, including the ones responsible for handling doc-division, maintaining state in the search engine, as well as the indexing interface. Was responsible for maintenance of the search engine as the product went live.
Developed the indexing automation solution for the Wink Search Engine. Developed several indexing features: pre-splitting of index files, document ID compression, document attribute storage. Several rounds of performance improvements in indexing.

Feb 2004 – Mar 2007 Peribit Networks Inc. (acquired by Juniper Networks Inc. in July 2005)

Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Manager

Was the technical lead for a team that defined and implemented the service infrastructure of the next generation of WAN acceleration products designed to run on modern multi-core Linux systems
Implemented a generic infrastructure for application acceleration for Peribit’s WAN accelerators. The infrastructure was used for the acceleration of several protocols, including Cifs, Mapi, and SSL. Implemented the Mapi protocol acceleration
Productized the SM-500, Peribit’s flagship product. This included writing of a disk driver for VxWorks, implementation of the disk-based compression algorithm, as well integration of this algorithm with the rest of the system. Worked on various optimizations of the disk-based compression algorithm. Co-author of two patents filed in this area.
Wrote a generic (templatized) set of utilities used in both the current and next generation of products. These included a generic free list manager, event timer, and several storage containers customized for a real-time system.

Jun 1997 – Feb 2004 Intel Corp.

Senior Software Engineer

Major contributor for the core data model used in Intel’s internal CAD tools.

The core data model is a class hierarchy supporting various VLSI primitives (devices, layout, etc.) and modeling the various interactions among them. The core data model is a base of the implementation of Intel’s CAD tools for physical design. It is implemented entirely in C++ and makes full use of the language’s features.

Was responsible for the whole product lifecycle of various components in the core data model, including design, implementation, maintenance, optimizations (memory and runtime), documentation, training and customer support.
Wrote several generic (templatized) components useful to memory and runtime optimizations, including a state-of-the-art memory manager, a memory-lite set, a sparse array, a generic mechanism for storing extra bits in pointers, etc.
Was the technical go-to guy for the department, dealing with problems ranging from design to implementation to debugging.

Was responsible for developing and delivering customized training materials for the various customers of the core data model.

Education

1995–1997 Syracuse University Syracuse, NY

M.S., Computer Science

GPA 4.0

1990–1995 Sts. Kiril & Metodij University Skopje, Macedonia

B.S., Computer Engineering

GPA 9.71 (scale: 5.0 == F, 10.0 == A)