sussman@red-bean.com
http://www.red-bean.com/sussman
(mobile) 773-636-3809
Seeking senior software engineer or team-manager position. Particularly interested and experienced in open source development, version control software, and opportunities to spread open-source methodologies and technology in the corporate world.
Member of Open Source Program Office; working to promote open-source software in multiple ways. Launched massively-scalable open source project hosting (based on Subversion) in 2006. See code.google.com for details.
Co-designer and core developer of Subversion, an open source version control system designed to replace CVS. Brought product from nascent design to 1.2. Five years of managing and leading the open-source community. Helped integrate Subversion into Collabnet's collaborative software development framework. Co-authored an O'Reilly book on Subversion.
Responsible for a lab of 20 Unix machines (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, DEC, SGI, FreeBSD, Linux) used for commercial software development. Rolled out uniform DNS, NFS and NIS-based home directories with Linux infrastructure; aided OS portability research; worked on Linux port of Inso's file-viewing products; wrote large distributed build system.
Responsible for information systems design, purchasing, execution and troubleshooting for a technology-transfer company. Built a network for twenty Mac and Windows clients; built/supported Linux network architecture for email, name, web, and file-sharing services. Wrote a number of CGI and Java-based applications to manage client database.
Programmed MacOS image-processing apps for experiments in computer vision and artificial intelligence.
Three summers developing Unix C/C++ software tools for the visualization and analysis of a supercomputer Global Climate Model.
Co-authored with C. Michael Pilato and Brian W. Fitzpatrick. Published June 2004 (300 pages, ISBN 0-596-00448-6). Also available online at http://svnbook.red-bean.com.
Available online.
Very fast at picking up new computer languages and technologies; references upon request.
B.S. Mathematics, minor in Linguistics; graduated with General Honors, 3.6 GPA.
a web-based recipe database for my wife
calendar representations of Subversion commit activity
a proposal for communication-centric application paradigm shift
a java-applet Columns game
chaffing and winnowing algorithms in emacs (code on request)
writing text-adventures (code)
an IRC bot to moderate a multiplayer game of "Werewolf"
writing fractal software
writing video games in Turbo C
developing a synthetic human language
Pianist, conductor, sound engineer, and nationally-recognized musical theater composer. Co-authored six original musicals; multiple awards for original theater music since 1996. (See http://www.red-bean.com/pluess-sussman). Particularly enjoy singing in barbershop quartets and playing bluegrass banjo.
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