1. Alexander Viktorovich Tikhonov
39 years old (2 december 1976)
Male
Russia/Moscow
Willing to relocate: yes
Ready for business trips: yes
Travel time: any
Languages: Russian — native, English — advanced/fluent
+7 964 5282224
avtikhon@gmail.com
Desired positions
HW(Intel/Arm)/SW(Linux/Android/iOS/Solaris/Windows/Bios/VM/OS
Emulators) Testing Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
Experience
August 2004 — till now
ZAO "Intel" (Intel Corp.) — Information technology/system integration
Senior Software Engineer
• 2004-2007: Performance testing and supporting Linux kernel from 2.6.9 up to 2.6.21-rc1
versions. Administrating test lab machines with x86-64/IA64 architectures, leading role
in developing and supporting performance testing system Linux Kernel Performance
(LKP) for the Linux kernel, the project was granted with Group Recognition Award in
2005 year, in the 2007 year the project was presented on the OLS forum in Canada.
Manual and automate Linux kernel analyzing using LKP testing system: installation and
fine-tuning test machines and kernels, testing bottlenecks of the kernel, productivity
measurement of the kernel, finding kernel patches with degradations; creating fix kernel
patches and publishing them on LKML from LKP project. Developing and supporting
internal/external LKP web sites with LKP administrating tools and kernel results in GUI
interface. Worked on csh, ksh, C, SQL, PHP, Perl, Javascript
• 2007-2010: Developing and supporting of the newest Intel virtual platform models in
Intel Platform Simulator (SoftSDV) project for Windows/Linux OS using Visual C,
QEMU, XML. New platforms integration in the product, developing the new features and
devices in it. Led developing tests for the full covering of all the platforms and its
features, led creation of the workload disk images with Windows/Linux/FreeDOS OS.
Developed the installation packages with all documentation of the product for
Windows/Linux OS for internal/external customers, was resolving all legal issues,
responded for the full processes of the products releases preparations with hot fixing and
publishing. Was the responsible person for all team indicators and developed it. Helped
the new team members in project learning and investigation, created the new tasks for
them and managed their work with it. Granted with many awards for the key results of
the product and quality of product support for the customers.
• 2010-2011: Worked as the member of Intel Simics team. Responded for the new tests
creation for the Simics platforms and its features using Python, Perl. Prepared for it the
strategic of testing, debugged the code, integrated all needed additional third party tools.
Helped the customers to integrate their new platforms and devices into the product. Led
the coverage testing process of all the product components, designed the tests and

2. workload images for it. Helped the team members of the project in learning and
investigation; created the tasks for them and managed their work with it.
• 2011-2013: working in Intel VIP project. Developing the QA automation system tools
based on Perl and shell for the project full life coding: testing, analyzing, committing and
etc. Developing tools under Linux for configuring and administrating machines.
Providing IT support for the whole VIP project, working closely with customers and
resolving their issues. Worked on researching and developing new type of machine
simulator (platform/processor/etc.) based on the new feature architecture with different
types of binary simulators. Created the test drivers for online testing and analyzing the
running simulator on Intel internal LIT (Long Instruction Tracing) tests with all hardware
exceptions and events.
• 2013-now: working as QA member in compiler team, since 2015 the only member of the
QA team. Developing from the very start, supporting and improving automate test
infrastructure with build/test tools, used by developers for code debugging and automate
regular testing, to maintain stability and detect performance degradations of Android
NDK toolchains with GCC, LLVM, ICC, XMAIN compilers. Setting up
compilers/libraries/tools/benchmarks/OS images builds for Android and setup testing on
phones/tablets devices based on Arm(v7-v8)/Intel(x86-x86_64) platforms.
Analyzing/fixing and posting fixes to Android sources in AOSP, GCC, LLVM. Worked
on implementing 64 bits devices support into Android NDK build scripts. Worked close
with Google on testing NDK prereleases before its external releases.
November 1997 — August 2004
Elbrus, MCST (SUN Microsystems project) — Information technology/system integration
software engineer
• Testing and enabling OS Solaris from 2.5.1 up to 2.11 version. Administrating the test
lab with Sparc/x86-64 architecture machines. Creating and supporting OS Solaris testing
system Moscow Sparc Test Collection (MSTC). Worked on enabling OS Solaris
libraries, commands, system calls, investigated its issues, created covering tests for all of
them on C language with csh, ksh shells usage. Deep knowlege of all OS Solaris tools
and applications.
Education
1994 - 2000 Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University).
(Automate and Computer Technic (AVT), MS)
Additional education
1995 - 1998 Highest Computer Extension Courses (VKSH)
(MGU (VMKSIS), MS)