Resume of Daniel Burrows

Education

Brown University

September 1998-May 2002

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude

The Pennsylvania State University

September 2002-May 2005

Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering

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 47,000 lines of C++ code and 10,000 lines of DocBook XML documentation)¹.

The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
(http://www.cse.psu.edu)

September 2002-December 2003

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Graded and assisted students in CSE 468, Theory of Formal Languages.
Performed grading duties and prepared course materials, including homeworks, supplementary handouts, and a BSP editor, for CSE 418, Computer Graphics.

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).

Penn State/NASA Swift Project
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
(http://www.swift.psu.edu)

January 2004-June 2005

Assistant MOC Network Administrator

Installed and configured Debian GNU/Linux science support workstations and a central NFS/LDAP server on the Swift Mission Operations Center network.
Wrote Python scripts to assist in maintaining a network of identical workstations.

Programming in languages including C++, Python, and Lisp.

C++:
- 7 years experience.
- Wrote a 45,000 line frontend application to manage Debian software packages.
- Wrote a solver for systems of logical constraints at NASA Ames.
- Spent a semester testing, reading and grading C++-based computer graphics projects.
Python:
- 6 years experience.
- Wrote a 3,000 line graphical music organizer using the GTK+ graphical user interface library.
- Wrote a relay-only mail transport agent.
- Implemented a system for synchronizing configuration changes across multiple workstations.
- Wrote Python bindings for the auto-mark extension to the apt C++ library.
Document creation in LaTeX and in Docbook XML.
7 years Unix/Linux experience, including software development and system administration (primarily Debian GNU/Linux).

1 Statistics refer to version 0.4.1, released December 8 2005; lines-of-code are calculated by sloccount.