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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>
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  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 &amp; Refinement,
  79 Software Requirements Engineering, Software Design, Operating Systems,
  80 Computational Complexity, Design&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;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 &amp; 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 &copy; 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="mmath/bandali-mmath-thesis.pdf">pdf</a>
 121 | <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10012/16059">hdl</a>
 122 | <a href="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="2021/03/20/libreplanet-2021.html">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&ndash;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 &mdash; (GNU/)Linux User Group at York
 172 University &mdash; 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 &amp; Research Experience</h2>
 178
 179 <dl>
 180 <dt>Savoir-faire Linux</dt>
 181 <dd>fall 2020&ndash;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&ndash;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 &amp; 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&ndash;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&ndash;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 &amp; 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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