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Site: bndl.org
Email: bandali@gnu.org
bandali@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: available upon request via email
Last update: November 1, 2021

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Summary of Qualifications

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Experience in building software for diverse areas and platforms in +various programming languages such as C, Python, and Haskell.
Passionate about applying scientific and engineering methods while +designing and building software systems.
Using formal specification techniques to find specification-level +bugs early in the design stage rather than implementation.
GNU/Linux system administration on both the client and the server +side.
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.
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.

Education

Master of Mathematics (Computer Science) | 2018âpresent

University of Waterloo, Canada

Supervised by Dr. Nancy Day | GPA: 3.7/4.0 | Expected completion: April 2020

Research focusing on formal logic, model checking, and verification.

Master of Mathematics in Computer Science, University of Waterloo, +2020: Research focus: formal logic, model checking, verification; Thesis: A Comprehensive Study of Declarative +Modelling Languages; Supervisor: Prof. Nancy +A. Day; GPA: 3.7/4.0
Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computer Science, +York University, 2017: Favourite courses: System Specification & Refinement, +Software Requirements Engineering, Software Design, Operating Systems, +Computational Complexity, Design & Analysis +of Algorithms; GPA: 7.84/9.0

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Research Interests

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formal logic, model checking, theorem proving, verification

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Publications & Presentations

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The complete bibliography of my publications is available as a +BibT_eX bibliography +file, bandali.bib.

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Papers

B.Sc. Honours Computer Science | 2013â2017

York University, Toronto, Canada

GPA: 7.84/9.0

Relevant courses: System Specification & -Refinement, Software Requirements Eng., Software Design, Operating -Systems, Computational Complexity, Design & Analysis of Algorithms.

Finished first year (2013-14) at Carleton University with -a GPA of 11.0/12.0, then transferred to York University in -Fall 2014.

A Comparison of the Declarative Modelling Languages B, DASH, and +TLA⁺ + +[ pdf +| models +] + +: +Ali Abbassi, Amin Bandali, +Nancy A. Day, Jose Serna
+8th IEEE International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop, MoDRE@RE 2018
+Copyright © 2018 IEEE. All Rights Reserved. Sadly. +

Publications

Theses

Listed on my homepage

A Comprehensive Study of Declarative Modelling +Languages + +[ pdf +| hdl +| http +] + +: +Amin Bandali
+MMath Thesis, +University of Waterloo, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, +July 2020. +

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Talks

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Jami and how it empowers users + +[ pdf +(with +notes) +| http +] + +: +Amin Bandali
+Presented at the LibrePlanet 2021 Conference, March 20, 2021. +
The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems + +[ slides +| poster +] + +: +Amin Bandali, +Simon Hudon, +Jonathan S. Ostroff
+Slides presented at the Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science +Conference 2017, University of Toronto, Canada, June 15–17, 2017.
+Poster presented at the Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research +Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017. +
Introducing YULUG: +Amin Bandali
+Slides introducing YULUG — (GNU/)Linux User Group at York +University — presented at a Computing Students Hub (CSHub) tech +talk at York University, Toronto, Canada, February 12, 2015. +

Work & Research Experience

Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo | 2018âpresent

Instructional Apprentice, Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant

Savoir-faire Linux

fall 2020–present | Free Software Consultant | Consultant en +logiciel libre

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.

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SE 212: -IA in Fall 2019, -TA in Fall 2018
SE 463: -TA in Summer 2019 and 2018
CS 136: -TA in Winter 2018

Free Software Foundation (FSF)

spring 2020 | Intern

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 www.gnu.org.

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Cheriton School of Science, University of Waterloo

winter 2018–spring 2020 | TA, IA, RA ^[*]

SE 465 (Software Testing and Quality Assurance): TA in winter +2020

SE 212 (Logic and Computation): IA in +Fall 2019, TA in fall 2018

SE 463 (Software Requirement Specification and Analysis): TA in +spring 2019 and 2018

CS 136 (Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction): TA in +winter 2018

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[*] Teaching Assistant (marking exams and assignments), +Instructional Apprentice (holding tutorials and marking), Research +Assistant (doing research for/with supervisor)

Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, York +University

fall 2017 | Teaching Assistant

EECS 1012 (Net-Centric Introduction to Computing): TA in fall +2017, running labs and marking labs and exams

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Software Engineering Lab, York University

summer 2017 | Research Assistant: Worked on an implementation +of Lampsort +in Eiffel. Extended +the mathmodels +library, implementing a rational class for working with +arbitrarily large rational numbers.

summer 2016 | Research Student: Worked on Literate Unit-B, 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 +Unit-B Web, a web interface using Literate Unit-B to do +predicate calculus proofs. Unit-B Web, also written in Haskell, +supports the L^aT_eX +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.; 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.

Lotek Wireless Inc.

summer 2016 | Software Developer: Designed and developed an Employee Portal web application in C# +and the MVC framework, used by employees for accessing various data +catalogs and archives.

summer 2015 | Computer Programmer: 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.

Athlete Builder

2013–2014 | Software Developer: Developed the Backend of Athlete Builder platform in C# and +MVC.; Key role in development of the platform core.; Developed the alpha version of Athlete Builder Android application +in Java.

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Skills

Programming languages: C, C++, Haskell, Emacs Lisp, Guile Scheme, Python, Eiffel, Bash, +C#, Java, JavaScript
Tools: GNU Emacs, Git, Alloy, TLA⁺, +ProB, L^aT_eX, continuous +integration systems
Platforms: GNU/Linux distributions, including Trisquel, GNU Guix, Debian
Languages: Persian (mother tongue), English (native proficiency; IELTS: 9.0), +French (beginner)

EECS -Department, York University | Fall 2017

Teaching Assistant

EECS 1012: -TA in Fall 2017

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Community Service

EmacsConf conference

2019–present: Chief organizer and maintainer of conference infrastructure, +including the streaming servers.
2015: One of the organizers and in charge of setting up and maintaining +vital pieces of infrastructure.

Computer Science Club (CSC) of the University of Waterloo

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.

Notable projects +include launching +the CSC web IRC client as part of an effort in bringing modern +user freedom- and privacy-respecting communication tools to club +members.

Free/libre software contributions

Co-maintainer +of GNUzilla +and IceCat, the GNU version of the Mozilla suite and the Firefox +browser respectively.

Maintainer +of ERC, the +powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client distributed with GNU +Emacs.

Committer and regular contributor +to GNU +Emacs and GNU Guix.

GNU +webmaster +and GNU +Savannah hacker.

Volunteer work

spring 2013 | Application Developer for VONICAL Inc.: 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.
winter 2013 | Mobile & Web Developer for Hire Works Inc.: Worked on a variety of web and mobile development projects for +Hire Works.
summer 2012 | Web Developer for St. Brigid's Summer Camp: Redesigned and revamped the codebase for the photo gallery section +of the camp's website in PHP and JavaScript.

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