Curriculum vitae
Personal data:
- Name: Marek Chrastina
- E-mail: chrastina@kozmos.sk
- Date of birth: February 2, 1982
- Marital status: single, no children
- Nationality: Slovak
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Education and Qualifications:
- 2013: Ph.D. in theoretical physics and astrophysics
- Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Brno
- 2005: Mgr., master of science in physics
- Comenius University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava
- 2000: grammar school, school-leaving exam
- Gymnázium M. R. Štefánika, Nové Mesto nad Váhom
- 1999: dance course
- Tanečná škola, Nové Mesto nad Váhom
- 1997: elementary art school; playing the violin
- 1996: elementary school
- Driving licence: B
Work experiences:
- 2017-present: HPC System Specialist
- IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava
- operations and maintenance of High Power Computing Cluster (HPC)
- server administration, installation and configuration, massive parallel management orchestrators like puppet/clush/spacewalk, building github docker images, gitlab CI/CD integrations
- www/sql servers, email services, virtualization, storages, monitoring systems
- software development, scripting and automatization, information system/api development
- L1/L2 technical support, solving of sw/hw incidents, technical writing
- 2014-2017: Linux administrator and programmer
- HOSTING90 systems s.r.o., Praha
- server administration, installation and configuration and data backups
- solving of sw/hw incidents, technical support for customers, technical writing
- www/sql servers, email services, virtualization, storages, monitoring systems
- software development, scripting and automatization
- supervision 24/7
- 2006-2014: Research Specialist
- Department of Theoretical Physics & Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno
- variable stars research, CCD photometry: instruments, observation
- data processing and analysis, statistical methods, modelling
- electronic archiving of scientific big data, databases, data conversions, data backup/NAS administration, data mining, FITS format, writing documentation
- desktop and server administration, software coding and problem solving, technical and it support
- teaching: astrophysics, higher mathematics, application of statistical methods
- 2009-2012: Project Administrator
- Rector's Office, Masaryk University, Brno
- technical support, it support, sw coding, webmastering, statistical data processing
- 2009-2010, 2013-2014: Observer
- The Nicholas Copernicus Observatory and Planetarium, Brno
- variable stars research, CCD photometry: instruments, observation, data processing
- 2003-2005: Observer>
- Hlohovec Observatory and Planetarium, Hlohovec
- variable stars research, CCD photometry: instruments, observation, data processing, scientific data archiving
- live public demonstrations for visitors
Language skills
- Slovak (mother tongue)
- Czech (fluent)
- English (intermediate)
- German (basic)
Computer skills
- OS Linux, distributions CentOS, Debian/Ubuntu
- virtualization, clusters, clouds, containers, administration and system configuration
- web/database servers, web applications, email services, data storages, monitoring systems, software configuration management tools, massive parallel management orchestrators, version control systems
- kvm/qemu, libvirt, vmware, docker, virtualbox, md raid, lvm, collectd, ssh, clush, pbs, naemon, icinga, gammu, nginx, apache, mysql/mariadb, exim, postfix, git, gitlab, github, puppet, tgtd, nfs etc.
- Python, Bash, C, Pascal, Assembler, Lisp
- HTML/CSS, JavaScript, php, sql, Ruby on Rails, Haml, MySQL
- TeX/LaTeX, Gnuplot, FFmpeg
- MS Windows, Mac OS X
Music skills
- the 5 string violin player
- music arranger
Memberships:
- 2007-present: member of Czech Astronomical Society
- 1999-present: member of Little Chamber Orchestra at MsKS in Nové Mesto nad Váhom (2001-2014 in position of the concert master)
- 2007-2014: member of Slovak Teacher's Chamber Orchestra
- 2009-2011: member of Academic Senate of Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno
- 1998-2002: member of Slovak Union of Amateur Astronomers
- 1992-1994: member of folklore group Javorinka
- member of Slovak Ice Hockey Club