PAYU Computing
Vacancies: 1
Location: Nairobi, Kenya 
Deadline: 30 Jun, 2012 
http://www.payucomputing.com

PAYU Computing is a start-up founded by three East African MIT Alumni and is looking to bring on-board a proficient hacker onto the team to further develop the product in Kenya. check out our website for more (but limited) details: http://www.payucomputing.com/

 

We have raised $50,000 to date from a well known Angel Investor in the United States.

We will brief all candidates on the vision of the company and where we expect to be in the next 5-10 years. We are looking for someone who can believe in our vision and has the required skills to execute towards the vision.

There is a potential of adding the person as a co-founder (and have significant ownership stake in the company in the form of shares) if we deem that he/she is very well suited with what we need

The ideal candidate will be proficient in the following:

1. Linux

– Familiarity with server-client model of computing especially in relation to thin clients (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client)

– Prior use or knowledge of LTSP – Linux Terminal Server Project (http://www.ltsp.org/).

– Ability to create custom Linux User Interfaces and familiarity with Xfce (http://www.xfce.org/)

– Linux OS hacking. Should be very comfortable diving into low level code (up to machine code)

 2. Networking

– Familiarity with WiFi security enforcement, with experince using RADIUS for user access control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS)

– Proficient in WiFi devices and ability to hack and configure them as needed, including setting up OSLR meshing on DD-WRT (http://www.olsr.org/)

– Knowledge of mesh networking concepts. Refer to this paper to get an idea of the types of problems we encounter in our networks: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rtm/roofnet-b.pdf

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