David A. Kra
Active retired IT Architect. All: OSI layers- application to cable; Software layers- application, middleware, frameworks, OS; Tiers- mainframe to mini to desktop; Phases: requirements to deployment;
Education
Boston Latin School; Yale (BS); University of Pennsylvania (MS); IBM System Research Institute
Pronouns
SELF: I, you, your, he, him, his; OTHERS: he, she, it, you, your, him, her, his, hers, its
Work
Retired - stay up to date. Mentor others. Previously 33 years at IBM, then a few more elsewhere.
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Skills/Languages
Workload modeling, capacity planning, system sizing, technical decision making, transaction processing, modeling.
Design for modularity, performance, availability, scalability, longevity, etc.
Currently learning
Where to publish. Markdown.
Currently hacking on
Answering questions on Quora dot com.
Available for
Problem solving of problems that have been unsolved for at least three months. Problem source ID, isolation, circumvention, resolution options, guiding decision making.
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