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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="mmath/bandali-mmath-thesis.pdf">pdf</a>
| <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10012/16059">hdl</a>
| <a href="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="2021/03/20/libreplanet-2021.html">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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	28	<h1><a href=".">bandali</a>'s curriculum vitae</h1>
	29
	30	<p class="box">also available in plain text
	31	as <a href="bandali-cv.txt">bandali-cv.txt</a></p>
	32
	33	<dl id="link-grid">
	34	<dt>Site</dt>
dadecbb0	35	<dd><a href="https://bndl.org">bndl.org</a></dd>
7808cfc7	36	<dt>Email</dt>
dadecbb0	37	<dd>bandali@gnu.org<br />bandali@uwaterloo.ca</dd>
7808cfc7 AB	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 & Refinement,
	80	Software Requirements Engineering, Software Design, Operating Systems,
	81	Computational Complexity, Design & 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 & 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="https://p.bndl.org/modre2018-declarative.pdf">pdf</a>
103	\| <a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/artifacts/2018-modre/">models</a>
104	]
105	</small>
106	</dt>
107	<dd>
108	Ali Abbassi, <a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
109	<a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~nday/">Nancy A. Day</a>, Jose Serna<br />
110	<em>8th IEEE International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop, MoDRE@RE 2018</em><br />
111	Copyright © 2018 IEEE. All Rights Reserved. Sadly.
112	</dd>
113	</dl>
114
115	<h3>Theses</h3>
116
117	<dl>
118	<dt id="mmath">A Comprehensive Study of Declarative Modelling
119	Languages
120	<small>
0168c818	121	[ <a href="mmath/bandali-mmath-thesis.pdf">pdf</a>
7808cfc7	122	\| <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10012/16059">hdl</a>
0168c818	123	\| <a href="mmath/">http</a>
7808cfc7 AB	124	]
	125	</small>
	126	</dt>
	127	<dd>
	128	<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
	129	<em><abbr title="Master of Mathematics">MMath</abbr> Thesis,
	130	University of Waterloo, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science,
	131	July 2020.</em>
	132	</dd>
	133	</dl>
	134
	135	<h3>Talks</h3>
	136
	137	<dl>
	138	<dt>Jami and how it empowers users
	139	<small>
	140	[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-jami-libreplanet-2021.pdf">pdf</a>
	141	(<a href="https://p.bndl.org/bandali-jami-libreplanet-2021-with-notes.pdf">with
	142	notes</a>)
0168c818	143	\| <a href="2021/03/20/libreplanet-2021.html">http</a>
7808cfc7 AB	144	]
	145	</small>
	146	</dt>
	147	<dd>
	148	<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
	149	<em>Presented at the LibrePlanet 2021 Conference, March 20, 2021.</em>
	150	</dd>
	151
	152	<dt>The Magic of Specifications and Type Systems
	153	<small>
	154	[ <a href="https://p.bndl.org/cucsc-2017-slides.pdf">slides</a>
	155	\| <a href="https://p.bndl.org/eecs4080-poster.pdf">poster</a>
	156	]
	157	</small>
	158	</dt>
	159	<dd>
	160	<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a>,
	161	<a href="https://github.com/cipher1024">Simon Hudon</a>,
	162	<a href="https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/~jonathan/">Jonathan S. Ostroff</a><br />
	163	<em>Slides presented at the Canadian Undergraduate Computer Science
	164	Conference 2017, University of Toronto, Canada, June 15–17, 2017.<br />
	165	Poster presented at the Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Student Research
	166	Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2017.</em>
	167	</dd>
	168
	169	<dt>Introducing YULUG</dt>
	170	<dd>
	171	<a href="https://bndl.org">Amin Bandali</a><br />
	172	<em>Slides introducing YULUG — (GNU/)Linux User Group at York
	173	University — presented at a Computing Students Hub (CSHub) tech
	174	talk at York University, Toronto, Canada, February 12, 2015.</em>
	175	</dd>
	176	</dl>
	177
	178	<h2>Work & Research Experience</h2>
	179
	180	<dl>
	181	<dt>Savoir-faire Linux</dt>
	182	<dd>fall 2020–present \| Free Software Consultant \| Consultant en
	183	logiciel libre</dd>
	184	<dd>
	185	<dl>
	186	<dd>I am part of the Jami core development team at Savoir-faire Linux,
	187	where I work on various parts of Jami as a Free Software Consultant.
	188	These include working on and maintaining the GTK-based jami-gnome
	189	client application written in C++ and C, and packaging Jami for
	190	various GNU/Linux distributions and other platforms. I also serve as
	191	a community liaison between the Jami core team and the wider free
	192	software community around Jami, with the goal of helping facilitate
	193	the communications and relations between the two.</dd>
	194	</dl>
	195	</dd>
	196
	197	<dt>Free Software Foundation (FSF)</dt>
	198	<dd>spring 2020 \| Intern</dd>
	199	<dd>
	200	<dl>
	201	<dd>Working with the FSF tech team in a sysadmin role on a variety of
	202	tasks including installation of the Sourcehut free software forge on
	203	the FSF infrastructure for evaluation for the FSF forge project, as
	204	well as a series of enhancements
	205	for <a href="https://www.gnu.org">www.gnu.org</a>.</dd>
	206	</dl>
	207	</dd>
208
209	<dt>Cheriton School of Science, University of Waterloo</dt>
210	<dd>winter 2018–spring 2020 \| TA, IA, RA <sup>[*]</sup></dd>
211	<dd>
212	<dl>
213	<dd>SE 465 (Software Testing and Quality Assurance): TA in winter
214	2020</dd>
215	<dd>SE 212 (Logic and Computation): <a href="se212-f19">IA in
216	Fall 2019</a>, TA in fall 2018</dd>
217	<dd>SE 463 (Software Requirement Specification and Analysis): TA in
218	spring 2019 and 2018</dd>
219	<dd>CS 136 (Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction): TA in
220	winter 2018</dd>
221	</dl>
222	</dd>
223	<dd><small>[*] Teaching Assistant (marking exams and assignments),
224	Instructional Apprentice (holding tutorials and marking), Research
225	Assistant (doing research for/with supervisor)</small></dd>
226
227	<dt>Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, York
228	University</dt>
229	<dd>fall 2017 \| Teaching Assistant</dd>
230	<dd>
231	<dl>
232	<dd>EECS 1012 (Net-Centric Introduction to Computing): TA in fall
233	2017, running labs and marking labs and exams</dd>
234	</dl>
235	</dd>
236
237	<dt>Software Engineering Lab, York University</dt>
238	<dd>
239	<dl>
240	<dt>summer 2017 \| Research Assistant</dt>
241	<dd>Worked on an implementation
242	of <a href="https://bertrandmeyer.com/2014/12/07/lampsort/">Lampsort</a>
243	in Eiffel. Extended
244	the <a href="https://svn.eecs.yorku.ca/repos/sel-open/mathmodels/">mathmodels</a>
245	library, implementing a <code>rational</code> class for working with
246	arbitrarily large rational numbers.</dd>
247	</dl>
248	</dd>
249	<dd>
250	<dl>
251	<dt>summer 2016 \| Research Student</dt>
252	<dd>Worked on <em>Literate Unit-B</em>, the verifier for Unit-B, a new
253	formal method focused on formal verification of reactive, concurrent,
254	and distributed systems. From the Literate Unit-B codebase (written
255	in Haskell), decoupled the logic module and used it to build
256	<em>Unit-B Web</em>, a web interface using Literate Unit-B to do
257	predicate calculus proofs. Unit-B Web, also written in Haskell,
258	supports the <span class="tex">L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>
259	syntax of the Unit-B logic, renders user input on the page, and calls
260	the sequent prover of the logic module, which uses the Z3 SMT solver
261	to check the validity of user input.</dd>
262	<dd>Separated Literate Unit-B's type checker from its parser in a
263	large refactoring, allowing easier substitution of other type checking
264	algorithms, and in preparation for implementing subtyping.</dd>
265	</dl>
266	</dd>
267
268	<dt>Lotek Wireless Inc.</dt>
269	<dd>
270	<dl>
271	<dt>summer 2016 \| Software Developer</dt>
272	<dd>Designed and developed an Employee Portal web application in C#
273	and the MVC framework, used by employees for accessing various data
274	catalogs and archives.</dd>
275	</dl>
276	</dd>
277	<dd>
278	<dl>
279	<dt>summer 2015 \| Computer Programmer</dt>
280	<dd>Designed and implemented various applications in C# and C for
281	analyzing and testing a satellite pass prediction algorithm for
282	predicting the pass windows of Argos satellites, for scheduling send
283	times of data collected by the company's wildlife tracking
284	products.</dd>
285	</dl>
286	</dd>
287
288	<dt>Athlete Builder</dt>
289	<dd>
290	<dl>
291	<dt>2013–2014 \| Software Developer</dt>
292	<dd>Developed the Backend of Athlete Builder platform in C# and
293	MVC.</dd>
294	<dd>Key role in development of the platform core.</dd>
295	<dd>Developed the alpha version of Athlete Builder Android application
296	in Java.</dd>
297	</dl>
298	</dd>
299	</dl>
300
301	<h2>Skills</h2>
302	<dl>
303	<dt>Programming languages</dt>
304	<dd>C, C++, Haskell, Emacs Lisp, Guile Scheme, Python, Eiffel, Bash,
305	C#, Java, JavaScript</dd>
306	<dt>Tools</dt>
307	<dd>GNU Emacs, Git, Alloy, TLA<sup>+</sup>,
308	ProB, <span class="tex">L<sup>a</sup>T<sub>e</sub>X</span>, continuous
309	integration systems</dd>
310	<dt>Platforms</dt>
311	<dd>GNU/Linux distributions, including Trisquel, GNU Guix, Debian</dd>
312	<dt>Languages</dt>
313	<dd>Persian (mother tongue), English (native proficiency; IELTS: 9.0),
314	French (beginner)</dd>
315	</dl>
316
317	<h2>Community Service</h2>
318	<dl>
319	<dt>EmacsConf conference</dt>
320	<dd>
321	<dl>
322	<dt>2019–present</dt>
323	<dd>Chief organizer and maintainer of conference infrastructure,
324	including the streaming servers.</dd>
325	<dt>2015</dt>
326	<dd>One of the organizers and in charge of setting up and maintaining
327	vital pieces of infrastructure.</dd>
328	</dl>
329	</dd>
330	<dt>Computer Science Club (CSC) of the University of Waterloo</dt>
331	<dd>Served as the CSC System Administrator in Winter and Spring 2020.
332	Present member of the CSC Systems Committee, overseeing and
333	maintaining a large fleet of GNU/Linux servers for CSC members, as
334	well as running the CSC mirror for free software projects.</dd>
335	<dd>Notable projects
336	include <a href="https://mailman.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/csc-general/2020-July/000837.html">launching
337	the CSC web IRC client</a> as part of an effort in bringing modern
338	user freedom- and privacy-respecting communication tools to club
339	members.</dd>
340	<dt>Free/libre software contributions</dt>
341	<dd>Co-maintainer
342	of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/gnuzilla.html">GNUzilla
343	and IceCat</a>, the GNU version of the Mozilla suite and the Firefox
344	browser respectively.</dd>
345	<dd>Maintainer
346	of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html">ERC</a>, the
347	powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client distributed with GNU
348	Emacs.</dd>
349	<dd>Committer and regular contributor
350	to <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU
351	Emacs</a> and <a href="https://guix.gnu.org">GNU Guix</a>.</dd>
352	<dd><a href="https://www.gnu.org/people/webmeisters.html#bandali">GNU
353	webmaster</a>
354	and <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SavannahHacker/">GNU
355	Savannah hacker</a>.</dd>
356	<dt>Volunteer work</dt>
357	<dd>
358	<dl>
359	<dt>spring 2013 \| Application Developer for VONICAL Inc.</dt>
360	<dd>Worked on development of the Employment Accessibility Resource
361	Network (EARN) portal using the Anahita social networking platform,
362	written in PHP and running on GNU/Linux.</dd>
363	<dt>winter 2013 \| Mobile & Web Developer for Hire Works Inc.</dt>
364	<dd>Worked on a variety of web and mobile development projects for
365	Hire Works.</dd>
366	<dt>summer 2012 \| Web Developer for St. Brigid's Summer Camp</dt>
367	<dd>Redesigned and revamped the codebase for the photo gallery section
368	of the camp's website in PHP and JavaScript.</dd>
369	</dl>
370	</dd>
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