Duane Bronson

Highlights

• Versitile software engineer capable of developing front end through back end features thus requiring fewer specialists and keeping development tasks contained

• Proposed and rolled out new project development technologies like git and continuous integration and methodologies such as scrum

• Helped craft the official definition of "spyware" while serving as a member of the Anti-Spyware Coalition

• Hired and managed teams as large as five while still contributing to development work

Knowledge

Languages

C/C++, Perl, Java, bash/ksh, Lua, PHP, Python, HTML, XML, Tcl, Lisp/Scheme, IDL, Lex, Yacc, Bat/Cmd, Smalltalk, JavaScript, SQL

Operating Systems

Mac OSX, Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OS/2

SDK/Toolkit

X-Windows, STL, MFC, CORBA, CGI, STL, Motif, Tk, COM

Tools

Eclipse, NetBeans, Visual Studio, Vim (vi), Jenkins, Git, SVN, CVS, RCS, Awk, Sed, UML, Purify, DNS, Apache, Make, Ant

Protocols

TCP/IP, UDP, T1/T3, HTTP, FTP, SMTP

Experience

2019-2023

Lead Software Engineer, OpenText::Vertica, Remote

• The product: Vertica OLAP database - scalable analytic database

• Kafka integration engineer - developing enhancements and patches to the Kafka integration

• Spark integration manager - managing a small team rewriting the open source Spark integration

• SDK Integrations team manager - managing a small team that maintains the SDK and related tools

• Ease of Management lead - lead developer focused on making the product to use

• Open Source developer - writing and managing open source products that complement Vertica

• Kubernetes team developer - helping migrate our cloud offering to a kubernetes infrastructure

2010-2019

Principal Software Engineer, Riverbed, Cambridge, MA

• Proposed and rolled out the scrum methodology to the project team, training, directing, and leading the team.  My efforts kept developers focused and increased management visibility.

• Designed and built a network service hierarchy in C++ and SQL that defines a myriad of individual policies and gave the product a distinctive advantage over competitors

• Lobbied for and brought continuous integration builds to the project team which effectively reduced build breakage turnaround time from overnight to 4 minutes

• Automated the test infrastructure which provided to developers the ability to quickly track down which change caused a failure

• Devised a transition plan for an unobtrusive migration from Subversion to Git with commit history intact, wrote custom scripts to automate cross-commits during the transition, and trained the various teams to use Git.  This made it possible for teams to switch to git on their own schedule with minimal disruption and resistance.

• Created a license management system that automatically updates when the customer buys new features rather than having to type in a long code.

• Extended openssl to encrypt using an external FIPS canister and regularly audit the encryption mode in order to obtain FIPS certification for the product

• Added IPv6 support to a distributed system configuration with the capability of safely changing a remote address to IPv6 without losing network connectivity

2008-2010

Senior Software Engineer, Sonos, Cambridge, MA

• Smart speaker system running embedded Linux with limited memory and processing and real time needs

• Designed built and tested a SOAP based LAMP server to communicate with external music services.  This demonstrates the product API which allows partners to plug in their music service.

• Worked directly with a French partner to connect our embedded device to their music service

• Engineered a bridge to two social networking partners from our embedded device

• Maintained code on OSX, Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat, and embedded Linux

2007-2008

Lead Software Engineer, Lavastorm, Boston, MA

• Introduced the scrum methodology to Lavastorm to better manage developer tasks and track project completion

• Assessed scalability of product and provided hardware build-out guidelines

• Revised the server throttling architecture to maximize throughput

• Assumed Lead developer role of Java and C++ based server

• Designed and built a TCP/IP handshaking protocol in C++ to ensure a valid communication channel and thwart denial of service attacks

• Automated builds and streamlined the release process

• Wrote release notes, tweaked software packaging scripts, and released packages to QA and external website

• Promoted and introduced various collaboration tools (wiki, bug tracking, subversion)

2005-2007

Director of Spyware Research and Principal Software Engineer, Process Software (formerly Tenebril), Boston, MA

• Personally represented Process Software in the Anti-Spyware Coalition and helped craft the official definition of "spyware"

• Hired and managed team of 5 software developers and researchers

• Improved SpyCatcher's footprint (60% reduction) and performance (10%-200% improvements)

• Studied mutating spyware and rootkit behavior and helped architect SpyCatcher's API Interception

• Migrated spyware fingerprint database and collection tools to a LAMP Architecture using scrum to coordinate with peers

• Designed a spyware automation system which installed spyware on a VM and added it to our fingerprints

• Managed live production website containing daily spyware updates while mitigating risk

• Produced a "spyware digest" website to communicate statistics and new threats to sales and marketing

• Designed tools for customer contributed spyware

• Debugged the spyware detection/remediation engine

• Technologies used: C++, Lua, Perl, PHP, MySQL, NetBSD, Windows, and Linux

1996-2005

Staff Engineer, Symantec Software (formerly Veritas), Roseville, MN and Boston, MA

• Full stack (GUI, CLI, Web, Data) cross platform development (Windows, Unix, Linux) in multiple languages (C++, Perl, Java, Bash)

• Designed and built the NetBackup Reporting GUI - Windows/C++

• Designed and built the NetBackup Activity Monitor GUI - Windows/C++

• Designed and build the NetBackup Reporting GUI - Unix/Java/Swing

• Designed the NetBackup Activity Monitor Server - Windows/Unix/C++

• Improved scaling to 500,000+ jobs in the NetBackup Activity Monitor - Windows/C++

• Designed and build the NetBackup Troubleshooting Feature - Java/JSP/CORBA

• Designed and build the NetBackup Log Management Feature - Java/JSP/CORBA/C++

Education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

• B.S. Electrical Engineering

• Heavy focus on Computer Science 

• Graduated in 3.5 years

Community Involvement

• Boston Perl Mongers

• Boston PHP Meetup

• The Boston Java Meetup Group

• Music Hack Day

Extracurricular Activies

Commissioner of Ultimate Frisbee Leagues, Ultra Marathons, Volleyball, Rock Climbing, Underwater Hockey, Sailing