Engineer Computer Science

Derrick Lyndon Pallas *******@******.** 530-***-****

San Francisco, CA 94121

A software engineering position with special interests in the design and implemen-

OBJECTIVE

tation of distributed information systems and the application of machine learning

techniques to aid human interaction with these systems.

Master of Science, Computer Science

EDUCATION

College of Engineering, GPA 3.75

University of California, Davis

June 2003 March 2006

emphases in

Software Engineering

Computer Languages

Operating & Distributed Systems

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering

College of Engineering, GPA 3.71

University of California, Davis

September 1999 June 2003

Magna cum Laude, minor in Mathematics

Software Engineering Programming Languages Concurrent Programming

GRADUATE

Analysis of Algorithms Distributed System Models Information Security

COURSES

Machine Learning Computer Architecture Commercial Cryptography

Language Analysis Scienti c Computation Chaotic Systems (Physics)

Applications Engineer March 2006 current

EXPERIENCE

Alexa Internet

San Francisco

developed data-mining tools and applications

designed and maintain Alexa Image Search back-end

wrote tutorials on using the Alexa Web Search Platform

implemented internal Web Services with FastCGI and C++

worked with larger customers on application development

Graduate Research Assistant Fall 2003 Spring 2005

Center for Software Systems Research

Premkumar Devanbu & Zhendong Su

Department of Computer Science

University of California, Davis

distributed network simulation

static analysis of re ection in Java bytecode

DARPA Grand Challenge, Team Aggie Spirit Fall 2004 Spring 2005

control software design & implementation

systems integration & organizational teams

Teaching Assistant, Software Engineering Fall 2003 Winter 2004

Department of Computer Science

University of California, Davis

software patterns & design speci cations

three-tier business application development

Research Assistant, Dr. Premkumar Devanbu Winter 2002 Fall 2003

Department of Computer Science

University of California, Davis

examples of Aspect-Oriented CORBA applications

Consultant, Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences Fall 2000 Spring 2003

network optimization & database application design

Laboratory Assistant, Dr. Rena Zieve Fall 1999 Winter 2000

Department of Physics

University of California, Davis

Laboratory Assistant, Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences Fall 1996 Fall 1999

Web Designer, Castalia Communications Winter 1997

Favored: C, C++, CSS, (X)HTML, LTEX, LISP, PHP, Prolog, Ruby, XML, XSLT

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LANGUAGES

Familiar: D, CSP, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, OpenGL, Perl, Python, SQL, Z

Graduated with High Honors

HONORS &

Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society

AWARDS

Phi Kappa Phi general honor society

Order of Omega society for Greek leadership

IFC Scholarship Award, three years highest ranked Greek Engineer

Bank of America Achievement Plaque Science & Mathematics

Golden State Seal

Worse Than Failure (Formerly, The Daily WTF. ) regular columnist

OTHER

DARPA Grand Challenge, Team Aggie Spirit design & integration

ACTIVITIES

Well Known Secret writer, singer, lead guitar

Esperanza International volunteer work (Mexico)

Newman Catholic Student Community group organizer, various

College Life Student Fellowship leadership team, secretary

California Youth Authority volunteer work (visitation)

Alpha Gamma Omega Fraternity secretary (elected of cer)

Alpha Gamma Omega Fraternity historian (appointed chair)

I am interested in the way complex systems interact especially when part of

INTERESTS

the system is human and part of the system is not and have done research in

machine learning, both genetic and neural; distributed systems; chaotic systems

analysis; and program+language analysis. As information networks become in-

creasingly ubiquitous, user interfaces and computer interactions become increas-

ingly important; I would like to work with tools and applications that keep users

happy, the network thriving, information fresh, and the machine in the periphery.

As a team leader for Davis DARPA Grand Challenge entry, I helped integrate

software and hardware for an automotive application, namely the automatic navi-

gation of a vehicle with real-time, fault-tolerant information gathering system. At

Alexa, I have helped push the development of several very cool technologies and

explored new ways to extract and process information from the web.

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