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| Name: Mark J. Wielaard |
| Date of Birth: 20 May 1973 |
| Nationality: Dutch |
| Married and living in Deventer, The Netherlands |
| Homepage: http://www.klomp.org/mark/ |
| Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, 1992-1998 |
| Theoretical Computer Science |
| Masters thesis: Relating Logic Programming to Functional Programming |
| Melbourne University, Australia, 1997 |
| Honours program, Exchange Student |
| VWO (high school), Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam, 1988-1992 |
| Java Programmer, Sun Certification, 2002 |
| Basistraining OR, Vorming - Training Advies VHS Bergen, 2001 |
| [Communication, presentation, group dynamics and employer representation] |
Worked for various different companies and organisations in small and large project teams. I like to move between projects or switch roles on the same project. This gives me a good overview of the organisation I am working for and the product that has to be delivered.
| Frysk |
| Red Hat |
| http://www.sourceware.org/frysk/ |
| Role: Senior Software Engineer, since June 2006 |
| Work on development of the state machine, low-level breakpointing, instruction stepping and unwind backtrace support for a tracing, monitoring and debugging application. |
| GNU Classpath Maintainer |
| http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/ |
| Role: Maintainer, since June 2003 |
| Coordinating and facilitating work done by around 30 active developers (mostly volunteers). Leading informal discussions and meetings about goals, priorities and schedules. Coordinating who works on what. Formally my role is keeping the package maintainable in the long run, making sure it is a consistent part of the GNU system and coordinating legal and distribution issues with the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Coordination is mostly done through mailinglists and irc. Responsible for releases since 0.06 (22 August 2003). |
| Mobile agent communication protocol (using JXTA) |
| Tryllian Solutions |
| Role: Programmer, May 2003 - February 2005 |
| Implementation of a transport and messaging protocol for mobile agents on top of the JXTA peer-to-peer virtual network layer. Job included facilitating other programmers and system integrators when coupling legacy systems for clients using these protocols. |
| The Hunting of the Snark Project - BitTorrent Application Suite |
| http://www.klomp.org/snark/ |
| Role: Main developer, since April 2003 |
| Snark is a client for downloading and sharing files distributed with the BitTorrent protocol. It is mainly used for exploring the BitTorrent protocol and experimenting with the GNU Compiler for the Java programming language (GCJ) and the java-gnome bindings. It is possible to use it as a regular BitTorrent Client. Snark can also act as a torrent creator, micro http server for delivering metainfo.torrent files and has an integrated Tracker for making sharing of files as easy as possible. Still actively used (several hundreds of downloads a month), but no active development at this time. |
| Release Coordinator, Quality assurance and product release (ADK) |
| Tryllian B.V. |
| Role: Release Manager, 2003 |
| Identifying project risks, bug management, setting up test environment, creating test procedures and product release scripts. Both technical and procedural coordination with 3 groups of around 5 people each. |
| Security Certificate Tools and Server management (ADK Lite Habitat) |
| Tryllian B.V. |
| Role: Team Leader (4 people) and Architect, 2002 |
| Functional design and implementation of X509 certificates and security policy tools for external developers. Including monitoring and administrative tools. The project included coaching and training new programmers. |
| ARE (Agent Runtime Environment) |
| Tryllian B.V. |
| Role: Senior software engineer, 2001 |
| Implementation, design and architecture for a multi agent platform build around the java architecture. |
| GNU Classpath Developer |
| http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/ |
| Role: Developer, since 2000 (since 2003 also as maintainer, see above) |
| Implemented parts of the free core class libraries for use with virtual machines and compilers for the java programming language. Worked on jar file support, updating class loading to the 1.2 model, URLClassLoader, ThreadLocal, Timer, merging large parts of the library with libgcj, java.util.prefs package implementation, integration with various runtimes (including GCJ and Kaffe), general bug fixes and improvement in almost all parts of the library, both in java and JNI/C native sources. |
| Free javax.servlet implementation |
| http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/ |
| Role: Programmer, 1999/2000 |
| Library created together with Paul Siegmann to provide a completely free environment for Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP) in combination with Apache JServ and GNUJSP. No active development has been done since late 2000, but the code is still used in GPL-compatible applications and is now part of the GNU ClasspathX extension libraries. |
| Gossip internet community project |
| Tryllian B.V. |
| Role: Programmer, 1999/2000 |
| Implementation of network communication, messaging, encryption and authentication in the java programming language. Website back end and Java Applet front end. |
| Website front and backend design |
| NMG (Nieuwe Media Groep) |
| Role: Programmer/Designer, 1998 |
| Administrative back end for websites of KPN, Millennium Platform and other customers. Mostly based on custom website template system in perl, but including java applet front end support when requested. Database setup and interface design. |
| Database design |
| ILLC (Institute for Logic, Language and Computation) |
| Role: Programmer, 1997 |
| Creating a custom database design and user front end (GUI) for managing personal records and creating reports, mailings, and other overviews by non-technical people. |
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