Systems programmer with a passion for solving problems. Interests include operating systems, storage systems, distributed systems, games, and security. I have a holistic approach to problem solving, as a narrow focus often leads to future problems. Specialties: Storage systems, kernel development, embedded systems, security

Engineer @ From April 2014 to Present (1 year 9 months) Graduate Student Researcher @ Major focus on investigating potential storage savings in indexing systems for non-hierarchical file systems. Additional work in studying the efficacy of performing a computation versus storage trade-off in the cloud; methods of modeling/simulating this trade-off, and possible use cases. From January 2010 to March 2014 (4 years 3 months) Advanced Development Intern @ Designed a novel frequency based file ranking algorithm for ordering search results in backup systems. From June 2013 to October 2013 (5 months) Software Engineering Intern @ Working on various projects related to systems testing and reliability. From June 2011 to June 2012 (1 year 1 month) Teaching Assistant @ Conducted two weekly lab sections for undergraduate students. Acted as a first level resource undergraduate students for needing assistance. From September 2009 to December 2009 (4 months) Consultant and Programmer @ Enhanced and developed high visibility mobile applications for major television networks. From July 2009 to October 2009 (4 months) Programmer @ Worked on aspects of the Zest file system, a high performance file system for HPC environments. From June 2008 to May 2009 (1 year) Founder, manager, and senior developer @ Worked on innovating and implementing cutting edge features in an operating system written from the ground up. Additionally recruiter, educated, and managed team members and contributors to the project. From April 2007 to 2009 (2 years) Server Administrator @ Server administrator for a small (15 person) research group in the Nursing School. Manage the file server as well as take care of any technological problems that people are having. From June 2004 to June 2008 (4 years 1 month)

Masters of Science, Computer Science @ University of California, Santa Cruz From 2009 to 2012 BS, Computer Science @ University of Pittsburgh From 2004 to 2008 Brian Madden is skilled in: Operating Systems, Security, Programming, Embedded Systems, Management, Storage, Scalability, Research, Python, Algorithms, Linux, Distributed Systems, Computer Science, C, Java