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 in Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
+2020
+
Research focus: formal logic, model checking, verification
+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
+
+
+
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.
+
+
+
+
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.
+
+
+
+
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
+
+
+
[*]: 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
+
+
+
+
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 LaTeX
+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 | Software Developer
+
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.
GNU Emacs, Git, Alloy, TLA+,
+ProB, LaTeX, continuous
+integration systems
+
Platforms
+
GNU/Linux distributions, including Trisquel, GNU Guix, Debian
+
Languages
+
Persian (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (beginner)
+
+
+
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.
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.