Ivan Kanis

Professional Experience

Working for the Ministry of Justice for their document management system.

• Took over and managed the Application Maintenance Contract (TMA) for Alfresco, handling bug fixes and feature developments
• Designed and implemented identity and access management using Keycloak (SSO, user federation, role management)
• Improved and maintained Ansible automation scripts for Alfresco updates and deployments
• Emulated a PKI signing server using Docker Compose, integrating PKCS#11-based document signing directly into Alfresco
• Configured a test environment with mutual TLS (mTLS) for secure client-server authentication

Taking care of ecology with the software Winggy focused on sustainable tourism.

• Took ownership of the Winggy hotel sustainability platform from a contracting company, ensuring continuity and stability of the codebase
• Developed and integrated a new camping module, expanding the platform's reach to 50 camping sites alongside 200 hotels
• Implemented automated end-to-end testing using Cypress, improving software reliability and regression coverage
• Managed database schema versioning and migrations with Flyway, and optimized data persistence layer using Hibernate
• Worked with a Java backend stack throughout the full software development lifecycle

In charge of continuous integration and software escrow.

• Set up Jenkins for the mobility team and give assistance.
• Prepared software escrows every six months.
• Documented the common software build system on the Wiki.
• Took care of SonarQube upgrades.
• Provisioned Linux LXC using custom scripts and Mac machine via NetRestore.
• Updated software build chain integrity checks in Groovy.
• Automated build of software with shell scripts, Python and CMake.
• Migrated software configuration management to Git and Redmine, trained teams with new tools.

Various other missions accomplished:

• Wrote Wiki migration script from DokuWiki to Confluence. The Python code is released in GitHub.
• Found contacts in Ireland for the data collect team.
• Installed LDAP server and helped IT with a DNS maintenance script.
• Automated update of Visual Studio online account with batch script and C programs.

• Managed the port of Mastercard's audit software from Windows to Linux.
• Evaluated the risk of taking over the maintenance of the software.
• Wrote a customized Debian Live distribution.
• Implemented backend of web site and created a new PHP framework.

• Wrote improved data communication in C.
• Installed and configured Subversion source control software with Apache and Python on Solaris.
• Analyzed hardware needs for sixty developers and deployed Solaris and AIX servers.
• Administered rack of servers.
• Wrote test sheets to check the billing engine with Quality Center.

• Created build script in Python and Makefile to create an embedded NetBSD system.
• Released management of Sun Ray client Comet firmware.
• Ported and configured various flavors of Linux for laptops.
• Set up Xen virtual server.
• Developed touch screen driver in Perl and C for Linux.

• Migrated 300 e-mail accounts from Exchange to Postfix for OPAM in Nice.
• Taught Linux system administration for the IT staff of the port of Marseille.

• Developed scheduling, phone book and material management software in PHP.
• Added common functions used by different applications such as the calendar's display.
• Wrote specifications for the material management application.
• Refactored code to ease maintenance of the software.
• Designed automatic generation of the user's manual in HTML and PDF formats from a single XML source.

Linux expert, managed the Verastream EAI server under UNIX.

• Added multi processor functionality on Solaris with C.
• Installed GNU g++ compiler for AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Solaris.
• Rewrote the Makefile system from Opus to GNU.

Maintained the NFS driver for NT and created a SSH client for Windows.

• Added NIS features on NFS under the NT kernel in C.
• Ported the OpenSSH project from UNIX to Windows.
• Created the GUI for SSH on Windows with Visual Studio.

Maintained the Reflection VMS and UNIX terminal emulator in C.

• Maintained display and input functionalities for Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Thai.
• Programmed an ability to resize the graphic terminal emulator window.
• Reworked graphical interfaces and cleaned up code.

• Checked functionality of Japanese Windows 95.
• Tested display of Japanese and quality of translation.
• Wrote test suites to validate file operations.

• Designed and maintained the catalog of computer components in Japanese with PageMaker.
• Wrote over 600 spreadsheet tables with Lotus 123.
• Transferred tables to Excel and typeset with PageMaker to publish technical books.

Education