Stas Bekman

Current

Director at VitalityLink.com
Owner at StasoSphere Online Inc.
Reiki Master / Reflexologist at StasoSphere Healing

Book Author at StasoSphere.com
Article author at StasoSphere.com
Speaker and Trainer at StasoSphere.com
Module author at CPAN

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Past

Director of R&D at mailchannels.com
Lead Developer of the mod_perl module at Apache Software Foundation
Lead Apache/mod_perl core developer at TicketMaster

Senior Software Developer at Extropia.com
Software developer at the Networking group at Intel
Software developer at the Intranet group at Intel

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Education

Reiki Master/Teacher
McGill University
Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel

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Recommended

18 people have recommended Stas

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Stas Bekman’s Summary

Presently:

Stas runs his company: http://stasosphere.com/.

Stasosphere Online Inc. has the following objectives:

1. Create websites with millions monthly visitors coming from natural search.

2. Help companies with a lot of traffic to monetize it in the most efficient way (advertising and other incomes) and further increase their traffic through Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

3. Invest in startups that have a great potential and where Stasosphere could bring its expertise to the table.

Past lives:

Since the beginning Stas has been practicing the mastering of the art of doing it all: design, develop, document and support whatever the project he is working on.

For almost a decade Stas has been around the Apache Software Foundation mod_perl project, actively supporting the community, writing documentation, articles, books and over the period of the last few years, has been enjoying the co-leadership position as a core mod_perl developer, bringing the mod_perl 2 generation to the people.

Next Stas dedicated his full time to rid the world of spam/phishing/viruses at an amazing company with amazing people: http://mailchannels.com/. He is also an investor in this company.

Stas has a profound understanding of Perl and Apache internals. He has a lot of experience in complex debugging and testing of the projects.

Totally unrelated to the engineering side of Stas, he also helps himself and other people using the healing modalities of Reiki and Reflexology. He found his hands to be equally skilled at handling computer keyboards and channeling universal life energy.

If you need more references go to google.com and search for 'Stas Bekman'. You can contact me at stas@stason.org. However the fact that you can see my email address doesn't mean that I'm open to linkedin invitations from people that I don't know.

Stas Bekman’s Specialties:

entrepreneurship, angel investing, SEO, monetizing websites, consulting, anti-SPAM, anti-phishing, Apache, mod_perl, email, Perl, C, book and articles authoring, software design, presenting, teaching, Reiki healing, Reflexology

Stas Bekman’s Experience

Director

VitalityLink.com

(Internet industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )

VitalityLink.com is the wellness community place. The project is designed to help wellness practitioners to be easily findable by clients and with zero cost investment. Think craigslist, but designed specifically for the wellness/alternative health industry.
Owner

StasoSphere Online Inc.

(Internet industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

Many websites have a lot of traffic, but get poor earnings from ads and other ways, because they don't have an in-house experience on how to monetize their traffic better and how to get more traffic. Stas fills in this gap and provides that expertise, maximising the $$ value online property owners can get out of their traffic and getting more traffic, using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques.

Stas develops his own online assets to always stay at the edge of the art of website monetization. Stas is currently working on: http://chestofbooks.com/.

Stas also invests in startups where he could bring his expertise to the table.

StasoSphere Online Inc.'s site is: http://stasosphere.com/
Reiki Master / Reflexologist

StasoSphere Healing

(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

January 2005 — Present (5 years )

I facilitate Reiki healing sessions and also incorporate Foot Reflexology and massage. Also provide Reiki Training.

See also http://stasosphere.com/healing/
Book Author

StasoSphere.com

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

September 2000 — Present (9 years 4 months)

Co-author of the "mod_perl2 User's guide" book, published by Neonpress (http://modperl2book.org/) in August 2007.

Co-author of "Practical mod_perl" published by O'Reilly in May 2003. (http://modperlbook.org/). The complete book is now available online. It's licensed under CreativeCommons Attribution Share-Alike License.
Article author

StasoSphere.com

(Computer Software industry)

January 2000 — Present (10 years )

I wrote Apache/mod_perl articles for The Perl Journal, perl.com, Developer Shed, ApacheToday.com, apacheweek.com, Perl Archive and perlmonth.com. (see http://stason.org/books/)

Also I wrote a majority of the documentation at http://perl.apache.org/
Speaker and Trainer

StasoSphere.com

(Computer Software industry)

July 1999 — Present (10 years 6 months)

Speaker on technical topics, typically Perl and mod_perl, at conferences such as the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Yet Another Perl Conference, Linux Expo, and user groups. (see: http://stason.org/talks/)
Module author

CPAN

(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1999 — Present (11 years )

Author and maintainer of multiple Open Source Perl modules For more information see: http://search.cpan.org/~stas/
Director of R&D

mailchannels.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

August 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Stas is now working on applying his skills to design tools that save companies time and money, by solving their spam problems. We use mod_perl and Event::Lib/libevent as the core of our technology, bundled with the richness of CPAN and our in-house grown tools.

Stas is also a MailChannels investor.
Lead Developer of the mod_perl module

Apache Software Foundation

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2002 — August 2005 (3 years 7 months)

Co-author and maintainer of the Open Source mod_perl module for interfacing Perl programs with Apache webserver.
Lead Apache/mod_perl core developer

TicketMaster

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

September 2001 — July 2005 (3 years 11 months)

Working on developing the new generation of the Open Source mod_perl Apache module, testing, documentation and user support.
Senior Software Developer

Extropia.com

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

February 2001 — September 2001 (8 months)

Portal-in-box ADT in mod_perl, Template Toolkit

Developing the Open Source Application Development Toolkit in Perl,
using Template Toolkit for templates support. The enviroment is
designed to run under Apache/mod_perl.
Software developer at the Networking group

Intel

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Computer Software industry)

December 1998 — June 2000 (1 year 7 months)

Network Interface Card Applications : Perl/XS/C/C++/SQL

Developing GUI applications to interface new NICs developed at Intel and their testing tools.
Software developer at the Intranet group

Intel

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Computer Software industry)

February 1996 — November 1998 (2 years 10 months)

Developed multiple internal website applications in Perl, running on Apache/mod_perl, interfacing MySQL database.

Stas Bekman’s Education

Reiki Master/Teacher

Level Master/Teacher , Usui Reiki , 2005 — 2008

Reiki work is a great balance to the technical work that I do.

Activities and Societies:

Usui Reiki
McGill University

French Proficiency , Intensive french , 2004 — 2005

Montreal is not the best place for french immersion, since as soon as locals hear that you aren't a native french speaker, they switch to English. So it's not uncommon that I'd speak in French and get replies in English :)

Oh, and did I mention that you end up with accent Quebequoi?

Activities and Societies:

Full time french immersion
Technion-Machon Technologi Le' Israel

B.Sc. , Electrical Engineering , 1994 — 1998

Graduated with Cum Laude achievement

Activities and Societies:

Specializations in Computers, Networks and Communication

Additional Information

Stas Bekman’s Websites:

Stas Bekman’s Interests:

salsa dancing, photography, swimming, hiking, traveling, dreaming, meditation, spirituality, reiki, NLP, investing, yoga, angel investing, bizdev, advertising