Bram Cohen
Berkeley, CA
http://bitconjurer.org/

Process:

    Practitioner of evolutionary design.

    Sworn enemy of waterfall methodology.

Languages:

    Fluent in Python and Java. Speak conversational SQL and 
    halting C and C++. 

Software:

    Avid user of CVS, bash, and nedit. Familiar with many other 
    products, most of which I don't like so I won't mention them.

Experience:

    Organiser of CodeCon - http://codecon.deor.org/
        A very successful technical conference for peer to peer 
        hackers and cypherpunks

    Created BitTorrent - http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
        A tool for peer to peer file distribution which 
        seamlessly integrates with the web

    Wrote large portions of Mojo Nation - http://www.mojonation.net/
        A very ambitious project incorporating many interesting 
        cryptographic techniques. Unfortunately it hasn't done so 
        well, but many interesting lessons were learned in its 
        creation.

    Wrote a nifty life applet entirely in javascript - 
    http://bitconjurer.org/life/
        No java here, just javascript

    Implemented Java Transaction Architecture (JTA) and transactional
    resources, including row-based tables and blob storage.

    Designed and implemented a scalable cryptography API for Java.

    Wrote entire user interface and corresponding database queries for a 
    database management system.

    Came up with Walksat method of stochastic search

    Wrote JDBC driver for handing off queries to other JDBC drivers.

    Architected HTML generation system for a large deployed web site.

    Won $1000 Netscape bugs bounty for timing channel attack
    on the data tainting javascript security model

    Participated in design of Java chat server

    Maintained and wrote programs used for all the record keeping
    at a travel agency.

    Wrote a program to play Connect4, including board evaluation and
    alpha-beta pruning.

Publications:

    Selman, Bart; Kautz, Henry; and Cohen, Bram.
    Noise Strategies for Local Search.
    Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on
      Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94)
    Seattle, WA, 1994, 337--343.

Employment:

    Feb 2000-Mar 2001
        Software Engineer
        Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
        Employee #2
    Dec 1997-Dec 1999
        Chief Software Developer
        Signet Assurance Company
        Employee #1
    Apr 1997-Dec 1997
        Chief Java programmer
        db-Centric Corporation
        Employee #1
    May 1996-Dec 1996
        Software Engineer
        Earthweb, Inc. http://earthweb.com/
    Summer 1995 & Summer 1993
        Research Assistant in Artificial Intelligence
        AT&T Bell Laboratories; Murray Hill, New Jersey
    Summer 1994
        Database programming and maintenance
        Travel Tours International

Education:

    1993 Fall
        Enter the State University of New York, Buffalo
    1993 Spring
        Graduate Stuyvesant High School, New York City
    1992 Summer
        Hampshire College, Summer Studies in Mathematics

Extracurricular activities:

    1992-3
        Co-captain of Math Team, Stuyvesant High School
    1992
        1st place team, New York State Math League
        Individual High Scorer
    1992
        Passed American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME)

Computer Interests:

    Usability
        I hate computers. I have a dream of them being nice to 
        work with some day.
    Multi-agent systems
        Most of my work seems to revolve around complicated 
        interactions between multiple counterparties.
    Complexity theory
        I'm fascinated by the theory of algorithms. Unfortunately
        technical pyrotechnics are hardly ever called for in 
        practical software engineering.

Hobbies:

    Juggling
        Can juggle 5 balls, 4 clubs, do 2 diabolos, and many balance,
        club swinging, devil stick and whip-handling tricks.
    Origami
        Invented and taught many original models.

References available on request.

-Bram Cohen