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<h1><a href=".">bandali</a>'s curriculum vitae</h1>

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<dl id="link-grid">
<dt>Site</dt>
<dd><a href="https://bndl.org">bndl.org</a></dd>
<dt>Email</dt>
<dd>bandali@gnu.org<br />bandali@uwaterloo.ca</dd>
<dt>Phone</dt>
<dd>available upon request via email</dd>
<dt>Last update</dt>
<dd>November 1, 2021</dd>
</dl>

<h2>Summary of Qualifications</h2>

<ul>
<li>Experience in building software for diverse areas and platforms in
various programming languages such as C, Python, and Haskell.</li>
<li>Passionate about applying scientific and engineering methods while
designing and building software systems.</li>
<li>Using formal specification techniques to find specification-level
bugs early in the design stage rather than implementation.</li>
<li>GNU/Linux system administration on both the client and the server
side.</li>
<li>Problem-solving and communication skills, honed through research
and teaching roles held in graduate school, as well as holding
tutorials discussing complex concepts with fellow students and peers
throughout undergraduate studies and high school.</li>
<li>Organizational and teamwork skills, strengthened thanks to
community service in form of volunteer activities including organizing
the EmacsConf conference and volunteer work for charities such as the
Free Software Foundation and St. Brigid's Summer Camp.</li>
</ul>

<h2>Education</h2>

<dl>
<dt>Master of Mathematics in Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
2020</dt>
<dd>Research focus: formal logic, model checking, verification</dd>
<dd>Thesis: <a href="#mmath">A Comprehensive Study of Declarative
Modelling Languages</a></dd>
<dd>Supervisor: <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Prof. Nancy
A. Day</a></dd>
<dd>GPA: 3.7/4.0</dd>

<dt>Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computer Science,
York University, 2017</dt>
<dd>Favourite courses: System Specification &amp; Refinement,
Software Requirements Engineering, Software Design, Operating Systems,
Computational Complexity, Design&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Analysis
of Algorithms</dd>
<dd>GPA: 7.84/9.0</dd>
</dl>

<h2 id="research">Research Interests</h2>

<p>formal logic, model checking, theorem proving, verification</p>

<h2>Publications &amp; Presentations</h2>

<p>The complete bibliography of my publications is available as a
<span class="tex">B<span>ib</span>T<sub>e</sub>X</span> bibliography
file, <a href="bandali.bib">bandali.bib</a>.</p>

<h3>Papers</h3>

<dl>
<dt>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and
TLA<sup>+</sup>
<small>
[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/modre2018-declarative.pdf">pdf</a>
| <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/artifacts/2018-modre/">models</a>
]
</small>
</dt>
<dd>
Ali Abbassi, <a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
<a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy A. Day</a>, Jose Serna<br />
<em>8th IEEE International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop, MoDRE@RE 2018</em><br />
Copyright &copy; 2018 IEEE.  All Rights Reserved.  Sadly.
</dd>
</dl>

<h3>Theses</h3>

<dl>
<dt id="mmath">A Comprehensive Study of Declarative Modelling
Languages
<small>
[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-mmath-thesis.pdf">pdf</a>
| <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10012/16059">hdl</a>
| <a href="https://bndl.org/mmath">http</a>
]
</small>
</dt>
<dd>
<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
<em><abbr title="Master of Mathematics">MMath</abbr> Thesis,
University of Waterloo, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science,
July 2020.</em>
</dd>
</dl>

<h3>Talks</h3>

<dl>
<dt>Jami and how it empowers users
<small>
[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-jami-libreplanet-2021.pdf">pdf</a>
(<a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-jami-libreplanet-2021-with-notes.pdf">with
notes</a>)
| <a href="https://bndl.org/2020/03/20/libreplanet-2021">http</a>
]
</small>
</dt>
<dd>
<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
<em>Presented at the LibrePlanet 2021 Conference, March 20, 2021.</em>
</dd>

<dt>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems
<small>
[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf">slides</a>
| <a href="https://p.bndl.org/eecs4080-poster.pdf">poster</a>
]
</small>
</dt>
<dd>
<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
<a href="https://github.com/cipher1024">Simon Hudon</a>,
<a href="https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/~jonathan/">Jonathan S. Ostroff</a><br />
<em>Slides presented at the Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science
Conference 2017, University of Toronto, Canada, June 15&ndash;17, 2017.<br />
Poster presented at the Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research
Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017.</em>
</dd>

<dt>Introducing YULUG</dt>
<dd>
<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
<em>Slides introducing YULUG &mdash; (GNU/)Linux User Group at York
University &mdash; presented at a Computing Students Hub (CSHub) tech
talk at York University, Toronto, Canada, February 12, 2015.</em>
</dd>
</dl>

<h2>Work &amp; Research Experience</h2>

<dl>
<dt>Savoir-faire Linux</dt>
<dd>fall 2020&ndash;present | Free Software Consultant | Consultant en
logiciel libre</dd>
<dd>
<dl>
<dd>I am part of the Jami core development team at Savoir-faire Linux,
where I work on various parts of Jami as a Free Software Consultant.
These include working on and maintaining the GTK-based jami-gnome
client application written in C++ and C, and packaging Jami for
various GNU/Linux distributions and other platforms.  I also serve as
a community liaison between the Jami core team and the wider free
software community around Jami, with the goal of helping facilitate
the communications and relations between the two.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>

<dt>Free Software Foundation (FSF)</dt>
<dd>spring 2020 | Intern</dd>
<dd>
<dl>
<dd>Working with the FSF tech team in a sysadmin role on a variety of
tasks including installation of the Sourcehut free software forge on
the FSF infrastructure for evaluation for the FSF forge project, as
well as a series of enhancements
for <a href="https://www.gnu.org">www.gnu.org</a>.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>

<dt>Cheriton School of Science, University of Waterloo</dt>
<dd>winter 2018&ndash;spring 2020 | TA, IA, RA <sup>[*]</sup></dd>
<dd>
<dl>
<dd>SE 465 (Software Testing and Quality Assurance): TA in winter
2020</dd>
<dd>SE 212 (Logic and Computation): <a href="se212-f19">IA in
Fall 2019</a>, TA in fall 2018</dd>
<dd>SE 463 (Software Requirement Specification and Analysis): TA in
spring 2019 and 2018</dd>
<dd>CS 136 (Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction): TA in
winter 2018</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dd><small>[*] Teaching Assistant (marking exams and assignments),
Instructional Apprentice (holding tutorials and marking), Research
Assistant (doing research for/with supervisor)</small></dd>

<dt>Department of Electrical Engineering &amp; Computer Science, York
University</dt>
<dd>fall 2017 | Teaching Assistant</dd>
<dd>
<dl>
<dd>EECS 1012 (Net-Centric Introduction to Computing): TA in fall
2017, running labs and marking labs and exams</dd>
</dl>
</dd>

<dt>Software Engineering Lab, York University</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>summer 2017 | Research Assistant</dt>
<dd>Worked on an implementation
of <a href="https://bertrandmeyer.com/2014/12/07/lampsort/">Lampsort</a>
in Eiffel.  Extended
the <a href="https://svn.eecs.yorku.ca/repos/sel-open/mathmodels/">mathmodels</a>
library, implementing a <code>rational</code> class for working with
arbitrarily large rational numbers.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>summer 2016 | Research Student</dt>
<dd>Worked on <em>Literate Unit-B</em>, the verifier for Unit-B, a new
formal method focused on formal verification of reactive, concurrent,
and distributed systems.  From the Literate Unit-B codebase (written
in Haskell), decoupled the logic module and used it to build
<em>Unit-B Web</em>, a web interface using Literate Unit-B to do
predicate calculus proofs.  Unit-B Web, also written in Haskell,
supports the <span class="tex">L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>
syntax of the Unit-B logic, renders user input on the page, and calls
the sequent prover of the logic module, which uses the Z3 SMT solver
to check the validity of user input.</dd>
<dd>Separated Literate Unit-B's type checker from its parser in a
large refactoring, allowing easier substitution of other type checking
algorithms, and in preparation for implementing subtyping.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>

<dt>Lotek Wireless Inc.</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>summer 2016 | Software Developer</dt>
<dd>Designed and developed an Employee Portal web application in C#
and the MVC framework, used by employees for accessing various data
catalogs and archives.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>summer 2015 | Computer Programmer</dt>
<dd>Designed and implemented various applications in C# and C for
analyzing and testing a satellite pass prediction algorithm for
predicting the pass windows of Argos satellites, for scheduling send
times of data collected by the company's wildlife tracking
products.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>

<dt>Athlete Builder</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>2013&ndash;2014 | Software Developer</dt>
<dd>Developed the Backend of Athlete Builder platform in C# and
MVC.</dd>
<dd>Key role in development of the platform core.</dd>
<dd>Developed the alpha version of Athlete Builder Android application
in Java.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
</dl>

<h2>Skills</h2>
<dl>
<dt>Programming languages</dt>
<dd>C, C++, Haskell, Emacs Lisp, Guile Scheme, Python, Eiffel, Bash,
C#, Java, JavaScript</dd>
<dt>Tools</dt>
<dd>GNU Emacs, Git, Alloy, TLA<sup>+</sup>,
ProB, <span class="tex">L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>, continuous
integration systems</dd>
<dt>Platforms</dt>
<dd>GNU/Linux distributions, including Trisquel, GNU Guix, Debian</dd>
<dt>Languages</dt>
<dd>Persian (mother tongue), English (native proficiency; IELTS: 9.0),
French (beginner)</dd>
</dl>

<h2>Community Service</h2>
<dl>
<dt>EmacsConf conference</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>2019&ndash;present</dt>
<dd>Chief organizer and maintainer of conference infrastructure,
including the streaming servers.</dd>
<dt>2015</dt>
<dd>One of the organizers and in charge of setting up and maintaining
vital pieces of infrastructure.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>Computer Science Club (CSC) of the University of Waterloo</dt>
<dd>Served as the CSC System Administrator in Winter and Spring 2020.
Present member of the CSC Systems Committee, overseeing and
maintaining a large fleet of GNU/Linux servers for CSC members, as
well as running the CSC mirror for free software projects.</dd>
<dd>Notable projects
include <a href="https://mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/csc-general/2020-July/000837.html">launching
the CSC web IRC client</a> as part of an effort in bringing modern
user freedom- and privacy-respecting communication tools to club
members.</dd>
<dt>Free/libre software contributions</dt>
<dd>Co-maintainer
of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/gnuzilla.html">GNUzilla
and IceCat</a>, the GNU version of the Mozilla suite and the Firefox
browser respectively.</dd>
<dd>Maintainer
of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html">ERC</a>, the
powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client distributed with GNU
Emacs.</dd>
<dd>Committer and regular contributor
to <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU
Emacs</a> and <a href="https://guix.gnu.org">GNU Guix</a>.</dd>
<dd><a href="https://www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">GNU
webmaster</a>
and <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahHacker/">GNU
Savannah hacker</a>.</dd>
<dt>Volunteer work</dt>
<dd>
<dl>
<dt>spring 2013 | Application Developer for VONICAL Inc.</dt>
<dd>Worked on development of the Employment Accessibility Resource
Network (EARN) portal using the Anahita social networking platform,
written in PHP and running on GNU/Linux.</dd>
<dt>winter 2013 | Mobile &amp; Web Developer for Hire Works Inc.</dt>
<dd>Worked on a variety of web and mobile development projects for
Hire Works.</dd>
<dt>summer 2012 | Web Developer for St. Brigid's Summer Camp</dt>
<dd>Redesigned and revamped the codebase for the photo gallery section
of the camp's website in PHP and JavaScript.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
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	27	<h1><a href=".">bandali</a>'s curriculum vitae</h1>
	28
	29	<p class="box">also available in plain text
	30	as <a href="bandali-cv.txt">bandali-cv.txt</a></p>
	31
	32	<dl id="link-grid">
	33	<dt>Site</dt>
	34	<dd><a href="https://bndl.org">bndl.org</a></dd>
	35	<dt>Email</dt>
	36	<dd>bandali@gnu.org<br />bandali@uwaterloo.ca</dd>
	37	<dt>Phone</dt>
	38	<dd>available upon request via email</dd>
	39	<dt>Last update</dt>
	40	<dd>November 1, 2021</dd>
	41	</dl>
	42
	43	<h2>Summary of Qualifications</h2>
	44
	45	<ul>
	46	<li>Experience in building software for diverse areas and platforms in
	47	various programming languages such as C, Python, and Haskell.</li>
	48	<li>Passionate about applying scientific and engineering methods while
	49	designing and building software systems.</li>
	50	<li>Using formal specification techniques to find specification-level
	51	bugs early in the design stage rather than implementation.</li>
	52	<li>GNU/Linux system administration on both the client and the server
	53	side.</li>
	54	<li>Problem-solving and communication skills, honed through research
	55	and teaching roles held in graduate school, as well as holding
	56	tutorials discussing complex concepts with fellow students and peers
	57	throughout undergraduate studies and high school.</li>
	58	<li>Organizational and teamwork skills, strengthened thanks to
	59	community service in form of volunteer activities including organizing
	60	the EmacsConf conference and volunteer work for charities such as the
	61	Free Software Foundation and St. Brigid's Summer Camp.</li>
	62	</ul>
	63
	64	<h2>Education</h2>
65
66	<dl>
67	<dt>Master of Mathematics in Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
68	2020</dt>
69	<dd>Research focus: formal logic, model checking, verification</dd>
70	<dd>Thesis: <a href="#mmath">A Comprehensive Study of Declarative
71	Modelling Languages</a></dd>
72	<dd>Supervisor: <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Prof. Nancy
73	A. Day</a></dd>
74	<dd>GPA: 3.7/4.0</dd>
75
76	<dt>Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computer Science,
77	York University, 2017</dt>
78	<dd>Favourite courses: System Specification & Refinement,
79	Software Requirements Engineering, Software Design, Operating Systems,
80	Computational Complexity, Design & Analysis
81	of Algorithms</dd>
82	<dd>GPA: 7.84/9.0</dd>
83	</dl>
84
85	<h2 id="research">Research Interests</h2>
86
87	<p>formal logic, model checking, theorem proving, verification</p>
88
89	<h2>Publications & Presentations</h2>
90
91	<p>The complete bibliography of my publications is available as a
92	<span class="tex">B<span>ib</span>T<sub>e</sub>X</span> bibliography
93	file, <a href="bandali.bib">bandali.bib</a>.</p>
94
95	<h3>Papers</h3>
96
97	<dl>
98	<dt>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and
99	TLA<sup>+</sup>
100	<small>
101	[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/modre2018-declarative.pdf">pdf</a>
102	\| <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/artifacts/2018-modre/">models</a>
103	]
104	</small>
105	</dt>
106	<dd>
107	Ali Abbassi, <a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
108	<a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy A. Day</a>, Jose Serna<br />
109	<em>8th IEEE International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop, MoDRE@RE 2018</em><br />
110	Copyright © 2018 IEEE. All Rights Reserved. Sadly.
111	</dd>
112	</dl>
113
114	<h3>Theses</h3>
115
116	<dl>
117	<dt id="mmath">A Comprehensive Study of Declarative Modelling
118	Languages
119	<small>
120	[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-mmath-thesis.pdf">pdf</a>
121	\| <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10012/16059">hdl</a>
122	\| <a href="https://bndl.org/mmath">http</a>
123	]
124	</small>
125	</dt>
126	<dd>
127	<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
128	<em><abbr title="Master of Mathematics">MMath</abbr> Thesis,
129	University of Waterloo, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science,
130	July 2020.</em>
131	</dd>
132	</dl>
133
134	<h3>Talks</h3>
135
136	<dl>
137	<dt>Jami and how it empowers users
138	<small>
139	[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-jami-libreplanet-2021.pdf">pdf</a>
140	(<a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-jami-libreplanet-2021-with-notes.pdf">with
141	notes</a>)
142	\| <a href="https://bndl.org/2020/03/20/libreplanet-2021">http</a>
143	]
144	</small>
145	</dt>
146	<dd>
147	<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
148	<em>Presented at the LibrePlanet 2021 Conference, March 20, 2021.</em>
149	</dd>
150
151	<dt>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems
152	<small>
153	[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf">slides</a>
154	\| <a href="https://p.bndl.org/eecs4080-poster.pdf">poster</a>
155	]
156	</small>
157	</dt>
158	<dd>
159	<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
160	<a href="https://github.com/cipher1024">Simon Hudon</a>,
161	<a href="https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/~jonathan/">Jonathan S. Ostroff</a><br />
162	<em>Slides presented at the Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science
163	Conference 2017, University of Toronto, Canada, June 15–17, 2017.<br />
164	Poster presented at the Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research
165	Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017.</em>
166	</dd>
167
168	<dt>Introducing YULUG</dt>
169	<dd>
170	<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
171	<em>Slides introducing YULUG — (GNU/)Linux User Group at York
172	University — presented at a Computing Students Hub (CSHub) tech
173	talk at York University, Toronto, Canada, February 12, 2015.</em>
174	</dd>
175	</dl>
176
177	<h2>Work & Research Experience</h2>
178
179	<dl>
180	<dt>Savoir-faire Linux</dt>
181	<dd>fall 2020–present \| Free Software Consultant \| Consultant en
182	logiciel libre</dd>
183	<dd>
184	<dl>
185	<dd>I am part of the Jami core development team at Savoir-faire Linux,
186	where I work on various parts of Jami as a Free Software Consultant.
187	These include working on and maintaining the GTK-based jami-gnome
188	client application written in C++ and C, and packaging Jami for
189	various GNU/Linux distributions and other platforms. I also serve as
190	a community liaison between the Jami core team and the wider free
191	software community around Jami, with the goal of helping facilitate
192	the communications and relations between the two.</dd>
193	</dl>
194	</dd>
195
196	<dt>Free Software Foundation (FSF)</dt>
197	<dd>spring 2020 \| Intern</dd>
198	<dd>
199	<dl>
200	<dd>Working with the FSF tech team in a sysadmin role on a variety of
201	tasks including installation of the Sourcehut free software forge on
202	the FSF infrastructure for evaluation for the FSF forge project, as
203	well as a series of enhancements
204	for <a href="https://www.gnu.org">www.gnu.org</a>.</dd>
205	</dl>
206	</dd>
207
208	<dt>Cheriton School of Science, University of Waterloo</dt>
209	<dd>winter 2018–spring 2020 \| TA, IA, RA <sup>[*]</sup></dd>
210	<dd>
211	<dl>
212	<dd>SE 465 (Software Testing and Quality Assurance): TA in winter
213	2020</dd>
214	<dd>SE 212 (Logic and Computation): <a href="se212-f19">IA in
215	Fall 2019</a>, TA in fall 2018</dd>
216	<dd>SE 463 (Software Requirement Specification and Analysis): TA in
217	spring 2019 and 2018</dd>
218	<dd>CS 136 (Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction): TA in
219	winter 2018</dd>
220	</dl>
221	</dd>
222	<dd><small>[*] Teaching Assistant (marking exams and assignments),
223	Instructional Apprentice (holding tutorials and marking), Research
224	Assistant (doing research for/with supervisor)</small></dd>
225
226	<dt>Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, York
227	University</dt>
228	<dd>fall 2017 \| Teaching Assistant</dd>
229	<dd>
230	<dl>
231	<dd>EECS 1012 (Net-Centric Introduction to Computing): TA in fall
232	2017, running labs and marking labs and exams</dd>
233	</dl>
234	</dd>
235
236	<dt>Software Engineering Lab, York University</dt>
237	<dd>
238	<dl>
239	<dt>summer 2017 \| Research Assistant</dt>
240	<dd>Worked on an implementation
241	of <a href="https://bertrandmeyer.com/2014/12/07/lampsort/">Lampsort</a>
242	in Eiffel. Extended
243	the <a href="https://svn.eecs.yorku.ca/repos/sel-open/mathmodels/">mathmodels</a>
244	library, implementing a <code>rational</code> class for working with
245	arbitrarily large rational numbers.</dd>
246	</dl>
247	</dd>
248	<dd>
249	<dl>
250	<dt>summer 2016 \| Research Student</dt>
251	<dd>Worked on <em>Literate Unit-B</em>, the verifier for Unit-B, a new
252	formal method focused on formal verification of reactive, concurrent,
253	and distributed systems. From the Literate Unit-B codebase (written
254	in Haskell), decoupled the logic module and used it to build
255	<em>Unit-B Web</em>, a web interface using Literate Unit-B to do
256	predicate calculus proofs. Unit-B Web, also written in Haskell,
257	supports the <span class="tex">L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>
258	syntax of the Unit-B logic, renders user input on the page, and calls
259	the sequent prover of the logic module, which uses the Z3 SMT solver
260	to check the validity of user input.</dd>
261	<dd>Separated Literate Unit-B's type checker from its parser in a
262	large refactoring, allowing easier substitution of other type checking
263	algorithms, and in preparation for implementing subtyping.</dd>
264	</dl>
265	</dd>
266
267	<dt>Lotek Wireless Inc.</dt>
268	<dd>
269	<dl>
270	<dt>summer 2016 \| Software Developer</dt>
271	<dd>Designed and developed an Employee Portal web application in C#
272	and the MVC framework, used by employees for accessing various data
273	catalogs and archives.</dd>
274	</dl>
275	</dd>
276	<dd>
277	<dl>
278	<dt>summer 2015 \| Computer Programmer</dt>
279	<dd>Designed and implemented various applications in C# and C for
280	analyzing and testing a satellite pass prediction algorithm for
281	predicting the pass windows of Argos satellites, for scheduling send
282	times of data collected by the company's wildlife tracking
283	products.</dd>
284	</dl>
285	</dd>
286
287	<dt>Athlete Builder</dt>
288	<dd>
289	<dl>
290	<dt>2013–2014 \| Software Developer</dt>
291	<dd>Developed the Backend of Athlete Builder platform in C# and
292	MVC.</dd>
293	<dd>Key role in development of the platform core.</dd>
294	<dd>Developed the alpha version of Athlete Builder Android application
295	in Java.</dd>
296	</dl>
297	</dd>
298	</dl>
299
300	<h2>Skills</h2>
301	<dl>
302	<dt>Programming languages</dt>
303	<dd>C, C++, Haskell, Emacs Lisp, Guile Scheme, Python, Eiffel, Bash,
304	C#, Java, JavaScript</dd>
305	<dt>Tools</dt>
306	<dd>GNU Emacs, Git, Alloy, TLA<sup>+</sup>,
307	ProB, <span class="tex">L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>, continuous
308	integration systems</dd>
309	<dt>Platforms</dt>
310	<dd>GNU/Linux distributions, including Trisquel, GNU Guix, Debian</dd>
311	<dt>Languages</dt>
312	<dd>Persian (mother tongue), English (native proficiency; IELTS: 9.0),
313	French (beginner)</dd>
314	</dl>
315
316	<h2>Community Service</h2>
317	<dl>
318	<dt>EmacsConf conference</dt>
319	<dd>
320	<dl>
321	<dt>2019–present</dt>
322	<dd>Chief organizer and maintainer of conference infrastructure,
323	including the streaming servers.</dd>
324	<dt>2015</dt>
325	<dd>One of the organizers and in charge of setting up and maintaining
326	vital pieces of infrastructure.</dd>
327	</dl>
328	</dd>
329	<dt>Computer Science Club (CSC) of the University of Waterloo</dt>
330	<dd>Served as the CSC System Administrator in Winter and Spring 2020.
331	Present member of the CSC Systems Committee, overseeing and
332	maintaining a large fleet of GNU/Linux servers for CSC members, as
333	well as running the CSC mirror for free software projects.</dd>
334	<dd>Notable projects
335	include <a href="https://mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/csc-general/2020-July/000837.html">launching
336	the CSC web IRC client</a> as part of an effort in bringing modern
337	user freedom- and privacy-respecting communication tools to club
338	members.</dd>
339	<dt>Free/libre software contributions</dt>
340	<dd>Co-maintainer
341	of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/gnuzilla.html">GNUzilla
342	and IceCat</a>, the GNU version of the Mozilla suite and the Firefox
343	browser respectively.</dd>
344	<dd>Maintainer
345	of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html">ERC</a>, the
346	powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client distributed with GNU
347	Emacs.</dd>
348	<dd>Committer and regular contributor
349	to <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU
350	Emacs</a> and <a href="https://guix.gnu.org">GNU Guix</a>.</dd>
351	<dd><a href="https://www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">GNU
352	webmaster</a>
353	and <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahHacker/">GNU
354	Savannah hacker</a>.</dd>
355	<dt>Volunteer work</dt>
356	<dd>
357	<dl>
358	<dt>spring 2013 \| Application Developer for VONICAL Inc.</dt>
359	<dd>Worked on development of the Employment Accessibility Resource
360	Network (EARN) portal using the Anahita social networking platform,
361	written in PHP and running on GNU/Linux.</dd>
362	<dt>winter 2013 \| Mobile & Web Developer for Hire Works Inc.</dt>
363	<dd>Worked on a variety of web and mobile development projects for
364	Hire Works.</dd>
365	<dt>summer 2012 \| Web Developer for St. Brigid's Summer Camp</dt>
366	<dd>Redesigned and revamped the codebase for the photo gallery section
367	of the camp's website in PHP and JavaScript.</dd>
368	</dl>
369	</dd>
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