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Brandon Long

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Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BS Computer Engineering with Honors, 1995

MS Electrical Engineering with Thesis, 1997

Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer

Google Inc, San Francisco, CA Spring 2003 - Present

TL on the relaunch of Google Groups to include mailing lists.

TLM for Gmail Delivery with responsibility over IMAP/POP/SMTP/listserv/Gmail API and the message routing pipeline.

Editor for RFC 8617: The Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) Protocol

TLM for new Cloud API that was cancelled after alpha

Co-Founder

Neotonic Corporation, San Francisco, CA Spring 2001 - Spring 2003

Designed & Implemented Neotonic ClearSilver CGI Templating Kit

Designed & Implemented Neotonic Retrieve full text indexing system

Principle Engineer for Neotonic Trakken, a scalable web-based email customer service solution

Other tasks included: purchasing colocation and hardware, machine build, hardware installation,

software installation, networking and firewall, monitoring, oncall, operations, build system, release system,

software releases, support, marketing, finance, and billing.

Technical Yahoo

Yahoo! Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Summer 2000 - Spring 2001

Continuation of Duties from eGroups as Yahoo! Groups

Integration of eGroups mail/web system with Yahoo!

Key Member of the Yahoo! Hockey Team

Senior Software Engineer

eGroups Corporation, San Francisco, CA Spring 1999 - Summer 2000

Core server architecture and implementation of scalable web/email group applications

Responsible for release building, management, debug, and coordination for a weekly release

cycle

Responsible for first-line engineering debug and problem management

Primary interface for problem resolution between Customer Support, QA and Engineering

Responsible for various search engines, including full text search of over 250GB of text data

Senior Component Design Engineer

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Winter 1997 - Spring 1999

Core Logic Owner for Mendocino processor, responsibilities including Architecture and

Functional Correctness

Performance Validation for Mendocino processor

Design Validation tests for new features for Mendocino Processor

System Debug of post-silicon Mendocino Processor, with emphasis on Unix OS debug

Development and ownership of tools for aiding design and debug of Mendocino and

related processors

Validation Engineer

Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR Fall 1996 - Winter 1997

Post-Silicon validation of P6S and P6CS Processors

Developed focus and stress tests for post-silicon validation in C and x86 assembly

Assisted in debug and root cause of P6S/P6CS issues

Developed web based tools for documentation

Graduate Research Programmer

National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL Spring 1995 - Fall 1996

Primary Developer of NCSA HTTPd 1.4 and 1.5

Developed several proto-type web servers in Java

Studied server software architecture for performance and stability

Various other WWW related duties and research

Software Engineer

Advantis, Schaumburg, IL Summer 1994

Worked on EDI Magic for Windows 1.2 doing beta testing and customer customization

Learned VM/CMS and OV/PROF on IBM Mainframes

Learned about IBM policies, procedures, and management styles

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, Spring, Fall 1994, Spring 1995

Worked under Professor W. Kent Fuchs and Professor M. C. Loui

Class on 80x86 Assembly Programming and PC Architecture, ECE 291 Computer Engineering II

Related Skills

Programming experience in Pascal, C, C++, 80x86, 68HC11, i960, Java, Perl, Python

Programming experience under Unix/X11, DOS and Win32

Experience in cross platform development

System administration experience under AIX, IRIX, Ultrix, Solaris, SunOS, and Linux

Experience with CVS, PVCS, RCS, and Perforce revision control

Public development efforts include NCSA HTTPd, Apache, mutt, s3mod GBuffy