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Resume of Andrew Bennetts

Experience

Google, senior software engineer

August 2011present

Canonical, developer

May 2004July 2011Sensory Networks, software engineer

April 2004May 2004

Worked on in-house infrastructure such as build systems, using tools such as autoconf and

automake.

FLOW Communications, systems programmer

August 2002March 2004

Lead developer of internal systems, including:

design and implementation in Python of a customer billing system adaptable to multiple

products and pricing structures;

implementation in C of algorithms for record linking and indexing, and writing Python and

Zope ZCatalog extensions to use them;

implementation of an issue tracking system.

I also worked in teams to design and develop systems such as wholesale ordering and

provisioning. All development was done on Debian Linux systems.

A&A Weblink, programmerFebruary 1999August 2002

Designed and developed systems for processing, analysis and delivery of stock market data

to end-users. I wrote libraries implementing WebLink's BullSignal network protocol and the

Australian Stock Exchange's protocols for market data and announcements, and then wrote

systems that processed these feeds in real-time and responded to queries for current,

historical and streaming information.

Skills

Programming skills

Business systems

I have been a developer and designer of business systems such as invoicing, product

ordering and customer issue management.

Network programming

I am keenly interested in network programming, and have:

a solid understanding of TCP/IP;

experience writing networking code in both C and Python;

familiarity with the network representation of several common protocols, including HTTP

1.1, SMTP, FTP, POP3 and XML-RPC;

written both multi-threaded and asynchronous single-threaded code to handle concurrent

connections, often supporting several different protocols in the same process.

Web systems

I have experience developing a wide variety of web applications using ASP (IIS 5), Zope,

Twisted Web, and plain CGI.

Programming Languages

Python

Extensive knowledge of and experience in Python, its standard library, and common 3rd-

party packages. I understand the advanced features of new-style classes, metaclasses,

descriptors and generators that were introduced in Python 2.2. I have written C extensions

for Python, and am also familiar with using tools such as Pyrex for the same task.

I have extensive commercial experience building a variety of products for the Zope 2

platform, at all levels from fundamental ZODB operations up to Zope Page Templates.

C

I have been using C since 1998. I am familiar with its standard library, and with tools

such as gdb, electric fence and valgrind.

Visual Basic

I have experience building VB 6 applications, as well as COM components for use from ASP.

Computing

Linux

I first starting using Linux in 1996, and I have been running Debian Linux exclusively on

my home system since 1999.

Education

Bachelor of Science

University of Sydney, 19982001.

Major studies: Computer science

Other studies: Mathematics, History of Science, Physics.

Community

Twisted

Developer, March 2002 present

Twisted is an open-source asynchronous networking library for Python. My contributions

include the FTP client, an inetd(8) implementation, a Win32 version of the reactor,

documentation, and many other features.

Sydney Free Software Community

Active member of Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG). I have presented a talk on Python to

SLUG, and talks on Twisted to SLUG's Python Interest Group and at the linux.conf.au 2004

Python miniconf.

References

Available upon request.

Personal

Location

Sydney, Australia

Citizenship

Australian

Contact

Email ******-**@**********.***.

Last modified: 05 April 2012

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