Nathan Keir Edel
Email: nate AT nkedel.com
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Summary
* Education: Dartmouth BA, University of California Santa Cruz MS 
* 12 years of software engineering experience 
   * 8 years building enterprise applications in Java
   * 3 years working with storage-related software systems
* 17 years of Linux experience as user, developer and administrator
   * Significant related IT/sysadmin experience
* Skills highlights:
   * Strongest in Java, with some systems-level C experience.
   * A versatile generalist and quick learner.
   * Extensive experience with benchmarking. 

Work Experience
Guidewire Software
Jan 2011 — present
Senior Development Systems Administrator
* Responsible for installing, maintaining, and upgrading core 
    systems used by the development teams for testing (including
    performance, manual QA, and automated tests), source control,
    bug tracking, and build automation.
* Developer for internal IT process automation and internal-facing
    web applications.
* Technologies used: Linux, Java, Perl, iSCSI, SAS, SSH, 
    Virtualization (Xen primarily), iSCSI, NFS, SSH, Apache, 
    10GB Ethernet

March 2006 — Jan 2011
Software Engineer
* Completed the implementation of searching for contacts 
    by proximity using Geocoding, and supported the feature 
    through two release cycles and several point-releases.  
    Enhancements included substantially redesigning the 
    underlying search queries for better performance.
* Implemented features for tracking and scoring vendor/service
    provider performance. Implementation included a substantial 
    new SOAP integration between the servers.
* Implemented new and enhanced existing information and 
    instrumentation pages to support internal benchmarking and 
    to allow customer support to collect data for analysis from 
    the field.
* Application and java platform benchmarking and tuning across 
    multiple release cycles. 
* Technologies used: Java

University of San Francisco
April 2005 — February 2006
Web Programmer/Application Administrator
* Mixed application administration/support and development position.
* Development tasks included web forms and business process automation.
* Technologies used: Perl, Java/JSP, Solaris, Linux

Panta Systems
August 2004 — April 2005
High Availability Software Engineer 
* Created Linux kernel VFS wrapper for active-active high
    availability on NFS.
* Wrote extensions in Python for the company's cluster
    management package, supporting management and automatic 
    configuration of HA NFS and other storage technologies. 
* Evaluated, benchmarked and deployed various storage
    technologies and hardware.
* Technologies used: C, Linux, SCSI/SAS/Infiniband

University of California, Santa Cruz
September 2002 — June 2004
Regents Fellowship (2002 — 2003)
Graduate Student Researcher (2003 — 2004) 
* Research topics included file/storage systems applications
    for MRAM/other upcoming NVRAM technologies; two conference 
    papers accepted and published.
* Developed a novel scheme for compressing inodes, and
    developed prototype compressing in-memory file system first 
    in user space and then for the Linux VFS.
* Technologies used: C, Java, Linux kernel/VFS

Teaching Assistant (Winter 2003)
* TA for "Software Methodology" (CMPS115), a senior-level
    software engineering course. 

Kana Software
July 1999 — August 2002
Senior Software Engineer
* Developer for Kana Forms through five complete release cycles
* Created Java and Perl versions of Kana Forms, rewrote both
    web- and application-server components to support 
    international and multi-lingual content.
* Rewrote the mail sender for Kana Response to support HTML and
    international content; replaced out of date proprietary code 
    with code that made use of a standard API (JavaMail).
* Enhancements and bug fixes in the Response application server
    and Visual Basic client. 
* Technologies used: Java, Perl, Servlets/JSP, Swing, Javamail,
    XML/DOM, Visual Basic

Education
University of California, Santa Cruz
March 2011
* M.S. degree in Computer Science
    Degree requirements completed (diploma pending)
* MS Thesis: "MRAMFS: A Compressing File System for Byte-Addressable NVRAM" 
    Defended 15 Mar 2011, (pdf)

Dartmouth College
June 1999
* B.A. in Anthropology.  Computer Science Minor. 

Hunter College/City University of NY
1993 — 1994
* coursework in Computer Science. 

Publications
Nathan K. Edel, Deepa Tuteja, Ethan L. Miller, and Scott A. Brandt,
"MRAMFS: A Compressing File System for Non-Volatile RAM," Proceedings
of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis,
and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS
2004), Volendam, Netherlands, Oct. 2004 (pdf)
  (An earlier version of this work was presented as a 
   work-in-progress report at FAST 2004)

Nathan K. Edel, Ethan L. Miller, Karl S. Brandt, and Scott A. Brandt,
"Measuring the Compressibility of Metadata and Small Files for
Disk/NVRAM Hybrid Storage Systems," Proceedings of the 2004
International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and
Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'04), San Jose, CA, Jul. 2004 (pdf)

Relevant Skills
Languages:
  (proficient) Java, Perl, C 
  (some familiarity) C++, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, x86 Assembly, SQL, 
                     Visual Basic 6, bash

Application/Web Server: Tomcat, Apache, mod_perl, some familiarity with IIS 

Technologies/APIs: Servlets/JSP, JavaMail, Linux kernel APIs 
    (VFS especially), MIME, SMTP, HTTP, XML/DOM/SAX, perl modules, Sockets,
    SOAP/WSDL/web services, some familiarity with AJAX and with J2EE
    technologies not mentioned individually.

Development Tools: IntelliJ IDEA, perforce, jira, Linux/GNU tool 
    chain, KDevelop, cvs, Subversion, Bugzilla (some familarity with Eclipse)

Operating Systems: Linux (17 years+), Solaris, Windows Server

Databases: some familiarity with JDBC, Perl DBI, mysql, 
    MS SQL Server and Oracle

Other Networking: MIME, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, SSH, Postfix, 
    spam/email virus scanning, some familiarity with Exchange server

Storage technologies: SCSI/SAS/SATA, RAID, Linux LVM, NAS/NFS/SMB,
    iSCSI, some familiarity with SAN, Fiber channel, Infiniband, Lustre
    (These are at an administrator level and not a protocol level.)

Academic Projects
* A design for data protection for large archives using
    cross-file erasure coding and fast mirror copy
* Benchmarking of commodity and linear flash memories as
    secondary storage for Linux
* Simulation of branch prediction techniques using perceptrons
* Survey of recent work in Aspect Oriented Programming (Java-related)
* Survey of work in Genetic Algorithms, with demonstration of
    their use in a Blackjack program (C on Linux)
(See also conference papers above)