[150603] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodrick Brown)
Tue Feb 28 08:42:20 2012
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From: Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:41:16 -0500
To: "Brandt, Ralph" <ralph.brandt@pateam.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The smaller more elite hedge funds are - Getco LLC, Knight Capital, SAC Cap=
ital Advisors, Jump Trading, Wolverine Trading, Chicago Trading, Citadel, Su=
n Trading
A list of larger firms are here - http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=
=3Dtopliquidity
The core skill sets most look for is core Linux, C/C++, multicast, multithre=
ading, IPC, and low level kernel drivers. FPGA and CUDA is also becoming mor=
e relevant.
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On Feb 28, 2012, at 8:23 AM, "Brandt, Ralph" <ralph.brandt@pateam.com> wrote=
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> Rodrick, give me the name of one of those firms. :)
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> Ralph Brandt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodrick Brown [mailto:rodrick.brown@gmail.com]=20
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 6:13 PM
> To: A. Pishdadi
> Cc: NANOG
> Subject: Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
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> On Feb 26, 2012, at 8:27 PM, "A. Pishdadi" <apishdadi@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello All,
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>> i have been looking for quite some time now a descent coder (c,php)
> who has
>> a descent amount of system admin / netadmin experience. Doesn't
> necessarily
>> need to be an expert at network engineering but being acclimated in
>> understanding the basic fundamentals of networking. Understanding
> basic
>> routing concepts, how to diagnose using tcpdump / pcap, understanding
>> subnetting and how bgp works (not necessarily setting up bgp). I've
> posted
>> job listings on the likes of dice and monster and have not found any
> good
>> canidates, most of them ASP / Java guys.
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>> If anyone can point me to a site they might recommend for job postings
> or
>> know of any consulting firms that might provide these services that
> would
>> be greatly appreciated.
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> Good Luck guys like these are being scooped up by large financial firms
> and hedgefunds and they don't come cheap ~$250k easy!=20
