Christian Robottom Reis

Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on February 16th, 1976. 34 years old. Non-smoking married male. I write and speak fluent English, Portuguese and Spanish. I have good oral and written French, and am still studying Hebrew.

My current focus is understanding and developing software engineering processes that occur in free software projects, and with that knowledge, developing interesting new ways for companies to develop and deploy free software as a standard practice; this includes modeling economic incentives for developers and new revenue models for software development.

I am also a national-level adventure sports athlete, having competed and finished 7th and 9th in the 500+ km, 6-day adventure race called Expedição Mata Atlântica. I have consistently placed in the top 5 teams in the brazilian adventure race circuit.

Education

• MSc in Software Engineering, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, Brasil.
  Topic: A Development Model for Free Software Projects
• BSc in Computer Engineering, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
• High School in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Brazil
• Primary Schooling in Adelaide, Australia and Kingston, Canada

Professional Experience

• [2005-current] Canonical Ltd; São Carlos, SP
  At Canonical, I currently am seconded to Linaro.org as VP of Engineering. Linaro is a non-profit engineering consortium that focuses on accelerating time to market of ARM-based platforms running Linux.

  I formerly co-managed the Launchpad development team, a distributed group of software engineers spread across 8 different countries. My responsibilities included prioritization, scheduling, feature development, quality control and some coding. The Launchpad platform is based on Zope3 and SQLObject, and is mostly written in Python; its goal is to be a tool for the different facets of the free software community to converge upon: developers, translators and quality engineers.

• [2000-current] Async Open Source; São Carlos, SP
  At Async Open Source, I'm a senior engineer responsible for project development. My work involves making design and implementation decisions on the software we produce, along with preparing and distributing it in the most convenient form for other free software users. I am also frequently a lecturer for technical presentations, conference keynotes and workshops on the topics of free software, software engineering and standards-based web development.

• [2001-current] PyGTK
  I was one of the developers of the Python bindings for the GTK+ graphical toolkit. Apart from part-time maintenence of the GTK+ 1.2-based branch, I do QA, documentation, technical support and maintain the FAQ.

• [2001-current] Mozilla.org
  I am a volunteer for Mozilla.org, an organization that develops the Mozilla platform and application suite, on which a number of and other products are based on. I work as a lead developer for Bugzilla, which is the software Mozilla.org uses for bugtracking, and volunteer as part-time QA for browser-related products.

• [2002] Universidade Camilo Castelo Branco
  I was assistant professor for a term at a private university in Brazil, in the city of Descalvado, São Paulo state, teaching basic computing to Business Administration second-year students.

• [2000-2002] ORBit-Python
  I was one of the main developers of the CORBA bindings for Python based on the free CORBA ORB ORBit. I started out writing a test suite, and then evolved to working as developer and release engineer.

• [1999-2000] radiumsystems.com; São Carlos, Brazil
  At radiumsystems.com, a developer of online e-commerce software, I was manager of the Research and Development division; research was done on development tools, their intranet design and software engineering process.

• [Early 1999] Reece Ltda; Brasilia, Brazil
  At Reece I was responsible for a largish (over 40 clients) installation of a proprietary client-server point of sales solution. This solution run over Windows NT, but parts of the functionality was eventually migrated to servers running Linux. My primary tasks involved system administration and Unix development.

• [Late 1998] Ajuntament de Lleida; Cataluña, Spain
  I worked for two months at City Hall in Lleida, developing a simple database-backed system for cataloging and controlling restoration projects in the ancient (mid-1600s) part of the city.

• [1997] Promon Eletrônica Ltda; Campinas, Brazil
  At Promon, I worked for a year with doing embedded systems development for telephone switch softare. I was later involved with the development system and configuration management used by the developers, researching on my own initiative cross-compilation tools that could bring down the compile times (which were in the order of tens of hours) on the VAX/VMS system they used originally.

• [1996] NIT/Materiais, São Carlos, Brazil
  At NIT I was responsible for administration of Solaris and Windows workstations, integrated on a Novell network. Tasks involved the fiber optic connection to network backbone and configuring routing and basic networking services on each platform.

Computer-Related Skills

• Software Engineering: I have worked on large software projects in the telecommunications and business software industry. I have coordinated requirements engineering, written detailed design documents, and implemented quality assurance procedures. I have knowledge of UML and have participated in JAD sessions. Part of my MSc research regareded Software Engineering for Free Software Projects ; I have composed a number of papers, including a fairly popular paper describing the Mozilla suite's development process and another reviewing and comparing Extreme Programming.

• Usability and Interface design: I have worked on graphical and text-based Human-Computer Interfaces on many projects. At Async part of my job is educating Web developers on Web usability and advancing the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative. I have both designed and tested interactive interfaces for both web sites and desktop software.

• Development: I develop regularly in C, C++ and Python on the Unix platform; as such, I have good experience with the libraries and system calls available. I have written some software in Java, Visual Basic and Perl. I have a good grasp of developing using Unix and GNU tools including gcc, gdb, make and more recently, autoconf.

• System Administration: I have over 10 years of experience configuring and deploying all basic Unix services, including DNS, NIS/YP, NFS, httpd and modules, ftpd, SSH, DHCP, X11, and the Zope application server. I have good experience installing and working with the Linux kernel. I have worked with numerous Operating Systems, including Windows NT and 98, VAX/VMS, VM/CMS, Cisco and most commercial Unices. My Brainbench Linux System Administration test score is over 98%.

• Graphical Toolkits: I have a good measure of experience with GTK+ programming, and some knowledge of X11 (Xlib and Xt).

• Markup: I have over 5 years of hands-on experience with HTML and CSS; I also know the DOM quite well, including DOM manipulation via Javascript. I have experience with XML development in Python. I am also proficient with LaTeX in formatting and publishing papers; all my published papers and theses were written using it.

• Scripting: I have extensive experience with PHP and the Unix scripting tools awk, sed, expect, sh and csh.

• Databases: I regularly develop systems using the ZODB (an object-oriented persistence mechanism for Python), PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL and Berkeley DB.

Additional Interests

• Adventure Racing: I race multi-sport Adventure races, which consist of various days of human-powered racing in wilderness areas, doing compass and night navigation. I've placed 9th in the 2001 Expedição Mata Atlântica (http://www.ema.com.br/) and 7th in the 2002 edition, which covered an area of the Amazon state. Along with my team, Bichodomato.net, I've placed in the top 5 positions in most of the adventure race seasons from 2001 to 2003 in Brazil. I am a skilled navigator and am very familiar with orienteering tools and carthography.

  I am also the author of a 30-page navigation textbook for adventure racers in portuguese, which has been used by many racers in Brazil. The manual is available online at http://www.bichodomato.net/navegar/, and is complete with instructions and diagrams on compass and altimeter use.

• Bicycle Touring: I've travelled on bicycle on numerous occasions, including a (somewhat interrupted) trip from San Francisco, USA to Panama City, Panama; a trip through the state of Espirito Santo, Brazil; and numerous shorter trips within and without Brazil..

• Climbing and Fixed Ropes: I am experienced in climbing, both rock climbind and using ascenders on fixed ropes. I know the basic workings of securing fixed ropes for rapelling and climbing, and have participated in a number of climbing expeditions.

• Mountain Biking: I race XC mountain biking, and placed 9th in the São Paulo state championships in 1999.

• International Travel: I've traveled to over 30 countries and enjoy meeting new people and experiencing different cultures. I've visited in the past 2 years the following countries: Morocco, Spain, Portugal, France, England, Switzerland, South Africa, Canada, Australia and the USA.

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