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  28 <h1><a href=".">bandali</a>'s curriculum vitae</h1>
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  30 <p class="box">also available in plain text
  31 as <a href="bandali-cv.txt">bandali-cv.txt</a></p>
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  33 <dl id="link-grid">
  34 <dt>Site</dt>
  35 <dd><a href="https://bndl.org">bndl.org</a></dd>
  36 <dt>Email</dt>
  37 <dd>bandali@gnu.org<br />bandali@uwaterloo.ca</dd>
  38 <dt>Phone</dt>
  39 <dd>available upon request via email</dd>
  40 <dt>Last update</dt>
  41 <dd>November 1, 2021</dd>
  42 </dl>
  43
  44 <h2>Summary of Qualifications</h2>
  45
  46 <ul>
  47 <li>Experience in building software for diverse areas and platforms in
  48 various programming languages such as C, Python, and Haskell.</li>
  49 <li>Passionate about applying scientific and engineering methods while
  50 designing and building software systems.</li>
  51 <li>Using formal specification techniques to find specification-level
  52 bugs early in the design stage rather than implementation.</li>
  53 <li>GNU/Linux system administration on both the client and the server
  54 side.</li>
  55 <li>Problem-solving and communication skills, honed through research
  56 and teaching roles held in graduate school, as well as holding
  57 tutorials discussing complex concepts with fellow students and peers
  58 throughout undergraduate studies and high school.</li>
  59 <li>Organizational and teamwork skills, strengthened thanks to
  60 community service in form of volunteer activities including organizing
  61 the EmacsConf conference and volunteer work for charities such as the
  62 Free Software Foundation and St. Brigid's Summer Camp.</li>
  63 </ul>
  64
  65 <h2>Education</h2>
  66
  67 <dl>
  68 <dt>Master of Mathematics in Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
  69 2020</dt>
  70 <dd>Research focus: formal logic, model checking, verification</dd>
  71 <dd>Thesis: <a href="#mmath">A Comprehensive Study of Declarative
  72 Modelling Languages</a></dd>
  73 <dd>Supervisor: <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Prof. Nancy
  74 A. Day</a></dd>
  75 <dd>GPA: 3.7/4.0</dd>
  76
  77 <dt>Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computer Science,
  78 York University, 2017</dt>
  79 <dd>Favourite courses: System Specification &amp; Refinement,
  80 Software Requirements Engineering, Software Design, Operating Systems,
  81 Computational Complexity, Design&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Analysis
  82 of Algorithms</dd>
  83 <dd>GPA: 7.84/9.0</dd>
  84 </dl>
  85
  86 <h2 id="research">Research Interests</h2>
  87
  88 <p>formal logic, model checking, theorem proving, verification</p>
  89
  90 <h2>Publications &amp; Presentations</h2>
  91
  92 <p>The complete bibliography of my publications is available as a
  93 <span class="tex">B<span>ib</span>T<sub>e</sub>X</span> bibliography
  94 file, <a href="bandali.bib">bandali.bib</a>.</p>
  95
  96 <h3>Papers</h3>
  97
  98 <dl>
  99 <dt>A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and
 100 TLA<sup>+</sup>
 101 <small>
 102 [ <a href="papers/modre2018-declarative.pdf">pdf</a>
 103 | <a href="papers/modre2018-declarative.bib">bib</a>
 104 | <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/artifacts/2018-modre/">models</a>
 105 ]
 106 </small>
 107 </dt>
 108 <dd>
 109 Ali Abbassi, <a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
 110 <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy A. Day</a>, Jose Serna<br />
 111 <em>8th IEEE International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop, MoDRE@RE 2018</em><br />
 112 Copyright &copy; 2018 IEEE.  All Rights Reserved.  Sadly.
 113 </dd>
 114 </dl>
 115
 116 <h3>Theses</h3>
 117
 118 <dl>
 119 <dt id="mmath">A Comprehensive Study of Declarative Modelling
 120 Languages
 121 <small>
 122 [ <a href="theses/bandali-mmath-thesis.pdf">pdf</a>
 123 | <a href="theses/bandali-mmath-thesis.bib">bib</a>
 124 | <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10012/16059">hdl</a>
 125 | <a href="theses/mmath.html">http</a>
 126 ]
 127 </small>
 128 </dt>
 129 <dd>
 130 <a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
 131 <em><abbr title="Master of Mathematics">MMath</abbr> Thesis,
 132 University of Waterloo, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science,
 133 July 2020.</em>
 134 </dd>
 135 </dl>
 136
 137 <h3>Talks</h3>
 138
 139 <dl>
 140 <dt>Jami and how it empowers users
 141 <small>
 142 [ <a href="talks/libreplanet-2021-jami.pdf">pdf</a>
 143 (<a href="talks/libreplanet-2021-jami-with-notes.pdf">with
 144 notes</a>)
 145 | <a href="talks/libreplanet-2021-jami.bib">bib</a>
 146 | <a href="talks/libreplanet-2021-jami.html">http</a>
 147 ]
 148 </small>
 149 </dt>
 150 <dd>
 151 <a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
 152 <em>Presented at the LibrePlanet 2021 Conference, March 20, 2021.</em>
 153 </dd>
 154
 155 <dt>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems
 156 <small>
 157 [ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf">slides</a>
 158 | <a href="https://p.bndl.org/eecs4080-poster.pdf">poster</a>
 159 ]
 160 </small>
 161 </dt>
 162 <dd>
 163 <a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
 164 <a href="https://github.com/cipher1024">Simon Hudon</a>,
 165 <a href="https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/~jonathan/">Jonathan S. Ostroff</a><br />
 166 <em>Slides presented at the Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science
 167 Conference 2017, University of Toronto, Canada, June 15&ndash;17, 2017.<br />
 168 Poster presented at the Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research
 169 Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017.</em>
 170 </dd>
 171
 172 <dt>Introducing YULUG</dt>
 173 <dd>
 174 <a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
 175 <em>Slides introducing YULUG &mdash; (GNU/)Linux User Group at York
 176 University &mdash; presented at a Computing Students Hub (CSHub) tech
 177 talk at York University, Toronto, Canada, February 12, 2015.</em>
 178 </dd>
 179 </dl>
 180
 181 <h2>Work &amp; Research Experience</h2>
 182
 183 <dl>
 184 <dt>Savoir-faire Linux</dt>
 185 <dd>fall 2020&ndash;present | Free Software Consultant | Consultant en
 186 logiciel libre</dd>
 187 <dd>
 188 <dl>
 189 <dd>I am part of the Jami core development team at Savoir-faire Linux,
 190 where I work on various parts of Jami as a Free Software Consultant.
 191 These include working on and maintaining the GTK-based jami-gnome
 192 client application written in C++ and C, and packaging Jami for
 193 various GNU/Linux distributions and other platforms.  I also serve as
 194 a community liaison between the Jami core team and the wider free
 195 software community around Jami, with the goal of helping facilitate
 196 the communications and relations between the two.</dd>
 197 </dl>
 198 </dd>
 199
 200 <dt>Free Software Foundation (FSF)</dt>
 201 <dd>spring 2020 | Intern</dd>
 202 <dd>
 203 <dl>
 204 <dd>Working with the FSF tech team in a sysadmin role on a variety of
 205 tasks including installation of the Sourcehut free software forge on
 206 the FSF infrastructure for evaluation for the FSF forge project, as
 207 well as a series of enhancements
 208 for <a href="https://www.gnu.org">www.gnu.org</a>.</dd>
 209 </dl>
 210 </dd>
 211
 212 <dt>Cheriton School of Science, University of Waterloo</dt>
 213 <dd>winter 2018&ndash;spring 2020 | TA, IA, RA <sup>[*]</sup></dd>
 214 <dd>
 215 <dl>
 216 <dd>SE 465 (Software Testing and Quality Assurance): TA in winter
 217 2020</dd>
 218 <dd>SE 212 (Logic and Computation):
 219 <a href="teaching/se212-f19.html">IA in Fall 2019</a>, TA in fall
 220 2018</dd>
 221 <dd>SE 463 (Software Requirement Specification and Analysis): TA in
 222 spring 2019 and 2018</dd>
 223 <dd>CS 136 (Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction): TA in
 224 winter 2018</dd>
 225 </dl>
 226 </dd>
 227 <dd><small>[*] Teaching Assistant (marking exams and assignments),
 228 Instructional Apprentice (holding tutorials and marking), Research
 229 Assistant (doing research for/with supervisor)</small></dd>
 230
 231 <dt>Department of Electrical Engineering &amp; Computer Science, York
 232 University</dt>
 233 <dd>fall 2017 | Teaching Assistant</dd>
 234 <dd>
 235 <dl>
 236 <dd>EECS 1012 (Net-Centric Introduction to Computing): TA in fall
 237 2017, running labs and marking labs and exams</dd>
 238 </dl>
 239 </dd>
 240
 241 <dt>Software Engineering Lab, York University</dt>
 242 <dd>
 243 <dl>
 244 <dt>summer 2017 | Research Assistant</dt>
 245 <dd>Worked on an implementation
 246 of <a href="https://bertrandmeyer.com/2014/12/07/lampsort/">Lampsort</a>
 247 in Eiffel.  Extended
 248 the <a href="https://svn.eecs.yorku.ca/repos/sel-open/mathmodels/">mathmodels</a>
 249 library, implementing a <code>rational</code> class for working with
 250 arbitrarily large rational numbers.</dd>
 251 </dl>
 252 </dd>
 253 <dd>
 254 <dl>
 255 <dt>summer 2016 | Research Student</dt>
 256 <dd>Worked on <em>Literate Unit-B</em>, the verifier for Unit-B, a new
 257 formal method focused on formal verification of reactive, concurrent,
 258 and distributed systems.  From the Literate Unit-B codebase (written
 259 in Haskell), decoupled the logic module and used it to build
 260 <em>Unit-B Web</em>, a web interface using Literate Unit-B to do
 261 predicate calculus proofs.  Unit-B Web, also written in Haskell,
 262 supports the <span class="tex">L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>
 263 syntax of the Unit-B logic, renders user input on the page, and calls
 264 the sequent prover of the logic module, which uses the Z3 SMT solver
 265 to check the validity of user input.</dd>
 266 <dd>Separated Literate Unit-B's type checker from its parser in a
 267 large refactoring, allowing easier substitution of other type checking
 268 algorithms, and in preparation for implementing subtyping.</dd>
 269 </dl>
 270 </dd>
 271
 272 <dt>Lotek Wireless Inc.</dt>
 273 <dd>
 274 <dl>
 275 <dt>summer 2016 | Software Developer</dt>
 276 <dd>Designed and developed an Employee Portal web application in C#
 277 and the MVC framework, used by employees for accessing various data
 278 catalogs and archives.</dd>
 279 </dl>
 280 </dd>
 281 <dd>
 282 <dl>
 283 <dt>summer 2015 | Computer Programmer</dt>
 284 <dd>Designed and implemented various applications in C# and C for
 285 analyzing and testing a satellite pass prediction algorithm for
 286 predicting the pass windows of Argos satellites, for scheduling send
 287 times of data collected by the company's wildlife tracking
 288 products.</dd>
 289 </dl>
 290 </dd>
 291
 292 <dt>Athlete Builder</dt>
 293 <dd>
 294 <dl>
 295 <dt>2013&ndash;2014 | Software Developer</dt>
 296 <dd>Developed the Backend of Athlete Builder platform in C# and
 297 MVC.</dd>
 298 <dd>Key role in development of the platform core.</dd>
 299 <dd>Developed the alpha version of Athlete Builder Android application
 300 in Java.</dd>
 301 </dl>
 302 </dd>
 303 </dl>
 304
 305 <h2>Skills</h2>
 306 <dl>
 307 <dt>Programming languages</dt>
 308 <dd>C, C++, Haskell, Emacs Lisp, Guile Scheme, Python, Eiffel, Bash,
 309 C#, Java, JavaScript</dd>
 310 <dt>Tools</dt>
 311 <dd>GNU Emacs, Git, Alloy, TLA<sup>+</sup>,
 312 ProB, <span class="tex">L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>, continuous
 313 integration systems</dd>
 314 <dt>Platforms</dt>
 315 <dd>GNU/Linux distributions, including Trisquel, GNU Guix, Debian</dd>
 316 <dt>Languages</dt>
 317 <dd>Persian (mother tongue), English (native proficiency; IELTS: 9.0),
 318 French (beginner)</dd>
 319 </dl>
 320
 321 <h2>Community Service</h2>
 322 <dl>
 323 <dt>EmacsConf conference</dt>
 324 <dd>
 325 <dl>
 326 <dt>2019&ndash;present</dt>
 327 <dd>Chief organizer and maintainer of conference infrastructure,
 328 including the streaming servers.</dd>
 329 <dt>2015</dt>
 330 <dd>One of the organizers and in charge of setting up and maintaining
 331 vital pieces of infrastructure.</dd>
 332 </dl>
 333 </dd>
 334 <dt>Computer Science Club (CSC) of the University of Waterloo</dt>
 335 <dd>Served as the CSC System Administrator in Winter and Spring 2020.
 336 Present member of the CSC Systems Committee, overseeing and
 337 maintaining a large fleet of GNU/Linux servers for CSC members, as
 338 well as running the CSC mirror for free software projects.</dd>
 339 <dd>Notable projects
 340 include <a href="https://mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/hyperkitty/list/csc-general@csclub.uwaterloo.ca/message/ZOFF6Y23T6WLG3ZKB2CKLY3YCMB5LHWK/">launching
 341 the CSC web IRC client</a> as part of an effort in bringing modern
 342 user freedom- and privacy-respecting communication tools to club
 343 members.</dd>
 344 <dt>Free/libre software contributions</dt>
 345 <dd>Co-maintainer
 346 of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/gnuzilla.html">GNUzilla
 347 and IceCat</a>, the GNU version of the Mozilla suite and the Firefox
 348 browser respectively.</dd>
 349 <dd>Maintainer
 350 of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html">ERC</a>, the
 351 powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client distributed with GNU
 352 Emacs.</dd>
 353 <dd>Committer and regular contributor
 354 to <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU
 355 Emacs</a> and <a href="https://guix.gnu.org">GNU Guix</a>.</dd>
 356 <dd><a href="https://www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">GNU
 357 webmaster</a>
 358 and <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahHacker/">GNU
 359 Savannah hacker</a>.</dd>
 360 <dt>Volunteer work</dt>
 361 <dd>
 362 <dl>
 363 <dt>spring 2013 | Application Developer for VONICAL Inc.</dt>
 364 <dd>Worked on development of the Employment Accessibility Resource
 365 Network (EARN) portal using the Anahita social networking platform,
 366 written in PHP and running on GNU/Linux.</dd>
 367 <dt>winter 2013 | Mobile &amp; Web Developer for Hire Works Inc.</dt>
 368 <dd>Worked on a variety of web and mobile development projects for
 369 Hire Works.</dd>
 370 <dt>summer 2012 | Web Developer for St. Brigid's Summer Camp</dt>
 371 <dd>Redesigned and revamped the codebase for the photo gallery section
 372 of the camp's website in PHP and JavaScript.</dd>
 373 </dl>
 374 </dd>
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