Daniel Burrows <dburrows@algebraicthunk.net>

(814)360-2175

http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows

Experience

Satori Software (http://www.satorisoftware.com)

January 2006-present

Software Engineer

Designed and implemented the file layout and core algorithms for a database storing every postal address in the United Kingdom (30 million entries).
Maintained Satori's Move Update server, a service that performs queries against the USPS change-of-address database. Diagnosed and eliminated scalability problems that were encountered as the service's load expanded.

Debian Project (http://www.debian.org)

October 2000-present

Debian Developer

Worked with the Debian Project, a worldwide volunteer organization dedicated to producing a high-quality, free, Linux-based operating system.
Created the aptitude package management frontend (approximately 38,000 lines of C++ code and 12,000 lines of DocBook XML documentation)¹.

NASA AMES Research Center
(http://www.arc.nasa.gov)

June 2003-August 2003

Summer Internship through NASA's Education Associates program

Worked on the Livingstone project, a model-based engine for automated diagnosis of and recovery from hardware failures on spacecraft.
Studied and implemented techniques for artificial intelligence, particularly automated logical inference (A* search, etc).

The Pennsylvania State University

September 2002-May 2005

Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering

Brown University

September 1998-May 2002

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude

Programming languages:
- C++:
  - 9 years experience.
  - Wrote a template library to partially automate the creation of readers for binary file formats from a high-level description of the binary file.
  - Wrote a 38,000 line frontend application to manage Debian software packages.
  - Wrote a 15,000 line terminal interface library based on the libsigc++ templated callback library.
- Python:
  - 8 years experience.
- C#:
  - 2 years experience.
- Additional experience in languages including SQL, Ocaml, Lisp, Coq, and Haskell.
Document creation in LaTeX and in Docbook XML.
9 years Unix/Linux experience, including software development and system administration (primarily Debian GNU/Linux).

1 Statistics refer to version 0.4.10, released December 15, 2007; lines-of-code are calculated by sloccount.