Olivier Tharan

Current

• Site Reliability Engineer at Google, Inc.

Past

• Ingénieur systèmes et réseaux at Institut Pasteur
• Ingénieur développeur at IDEALX, SAS
• Contractor at Cegetel

• contractor at LibertySurf

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Education

• Institut National des Télécommunications

Connections

286 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Olivier Tharan’s Summary

Level 4 systems administrator at Google; working on virtualization software and managing clusters (code.google.com/p/ganeti); dealing with oncall duty and second-tier user support. Previously worked on internal storage systems.

Managed Unix systems and network at Pasteur Institute (biological private research institute); everything from user accounts, email service, internal and external web services, user helpdesk, etc.

Managed email services at ISDNet (now part of Cable&Wireless) during a contract.

Developed some parts of a user management system in Perl at Cegetel.

Managed various parts of Chez.com, a massive free webpages hosting service (now part of Tiscali).

My goal is to manage big Unix systems on a TCP/IP network. Playing a major part on the Internet is a preference.

Olivier Tharan’s Specialties:

Unix server administration and architecture, network management

Olivier Tharan’s Experience

• Site Reliability Engineer

  Google, Inc.

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  July 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

  Systems administrator for Google's corporate network, working on storage systems and cluster management.

• Ingénieur systèmes et réseaux

  Institut Pasteur

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  August 2002 — July 2004 (2 years )

  Systems and network administrator for Institut Pasteur (biological and medical research), doing everything from network troubleshooting and planning, Unix computer installation and maintenance, application services architecture, installation and maintenance - especially all network- and Internet-related software (email, web being the most proeminent).

• Ingénieur développeur

  IDEALX, SAS

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 2 months)

  Contractor on projects being developed for customers; Linux systems administrator on small and bigger projects; junior Perl developer
  
  Major feats: contract with the Chez.com web hosting platform as a Linux administrator; contract with Cegetel doing Perl development on a hosting project; releasing a documentation on a secure CVS server with separate privileges.

• Contractor

  Cegetel

  (Internet industry)

  2001 — 2001 (less than a year)

• contractor

  LibertySurf

  (Internet industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Olivier Tharan’s Education

• Institut National des Télécommunications

  Network Engineering, Economics, Finance September 1995 — June 1998

  Activities and Societies:

  Active member and president of the students computer association (Minet : http://www.minet.net/)

Additional Information

Olivier Tharan’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Olivier Tharan’s Groups:

LOPSA

•    MiNET
•    Google SRE

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