Daniel Burrows dburrows@debian.org (814)360-2175 http://people.debian.org/~dburrows

Brown University Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude September 1998-May 2002 GPA: 3.55 overall, 3.81 in Computer Science The Pennsylvania State University Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering September 2002-May 2005 Wrote thesis: Static Encapsulation Analysis in Featherweight Java. GPA: 3.80

Debian Project (http://www.debian.org) Debian Developer October 2000-present 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)Statistics refer to version 0.4.1, released December 8 2005; lines-of-code are calculated by sloccount.. The Pennsylvania State University Department of Computer Science and Engineering (http://www.cse.psu.edu) Graduate Teaching Assistant September 2002-December 2003 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) Summer Internship through NASA's Education Associates program June 2003-August 2003 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 ($A^\star$ search, etc).

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) Assistant MOC Network Administrator January 2004-June 2005 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.

Document creation in LaTeX and in Docbook XML.

7 years \textsc{Unix/Linux} experience, including software development and system administration (primarily Debian GNU/Linux).

7 years Unix/Linux experience, including software development and system administration (primarily Debian GNU/Linux).