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