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<title>Aaron C. Lindsay, Software Engineer - Resume - aclindsay.com</title>
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<center><h2 style="border-bottom: none; margin: 1em 0 1.5em 0;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em; padding: 0 .5em 0 .5em;">Aaron C. Lindsay</span></h2></center>

<h3>Summary</h3>
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	<li>I am a software engineer with 9 years of professional experience distilling challenging problems down to their core and developing the best solutions within given constraints.</li>
	<li>I methodically debug elusive problems, chasing them across language and project boundaries.</li>
	<li>I am a skilled communicator, which I use to ensure my solutions address the needs of others.</li>
	<li>I don’t like repeating myself - I am liable to automate anything worthwhile.</li>
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<h3>Related Experience</h3>
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	<li>Qualcomm Senior Engineer - August 2012 to present
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		<li>Debug Linux kernel and application functionality and performance at all levels – from high-level software design to instruction traces and processor pipeline interactions</li>
		<li>Develop tools in Python, C, and Bash to drastically accelerate data-gathering and analysis for software and hardware optimization, including lightweight container format and infrastructure, allowing automated profiling across thousands of workloads – potentially saving thousands of hours of engineers’ time</li>
		<li>Pioneered basic block vector-based correctness validation for workloads run on software performance models, preventing undesired behavior and ensuring results can be trusted to make hardware design decisions</li>
		<li>Adapt open-source software (QEMU, CRIU) for internal needs and contribute changes upstream</li>
		<li>Supported mapping performance data from software processor models to benchmark source code symbols by adding semihosting support for perf events in the Linux kernel</li>
		<li>Influence next-generation processor design by creating/analyzing processor performance micro-benchmarks</li>
		<li>Optimize Android/Linux application and library performance for Qualcomm’s mobile and server processors</li>
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	<li>Real-time Linux Systems Research at Virginia Tech - August 2010 to May 2012
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		<li>Formulated and empirically evaluated cache-aware real-time scheduling algorithms and partitioning schemes</li>
		<li>Researched and implemented techniques for quickly communicating kernel scheduling decisions to user space</li>
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	<li>Qualcomm Software Development Engineer - Summer 2011
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		<li>Developed and supported snapshot/restore mechanism for next-generation mobile processor simulator</li>
		<li>Co-developed 'fast-forwarding' for the same processor performance model</li>
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	<li>Virtual Environments Research in Computer Science - Spring 2010
		<ul><li>Conducted user studies testing the effects of interaction fidelity on procedure memorization</li>
		<li>Developed test environment using Blender, Python, and interfaced with VR hardware using C++</li></ul>
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	<li>IBM Emerging Technologies (jStart Team) - January 2009 to February 2010
		<ul><li>Architected, programmed, tested, and presented new distributed mashup technology utilizing XMPP, custom Java server, MySQL, HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS</li>
		<li>Granted patent US20110161833 for "Distributed Multi-User Mashups"</li></ul>
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<h3>Technical Hobbies</h3>
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	<li>Develop open-source software, including a personal finance/accounting library and web app in Go and ReactJS</li>
	<li>Administer web services for family/friends using Ansible, including email, wiki, personal cloud, and git</li>
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<h3>Expertise</h3>
	<h4 style="margin: 0em;">Languages:</h4>
	<p style="margin: .5em 0 .5em 2em;">Assembly (ARM), (Ba)sh, C, C++, CSS, Go, HTML, JavaScript, Lua, make, Python</p>
	<h4 style="margin: 0em;">Skills:</h4>
	<p style="margin: .5em 0 .5em 2em;">Design/develop/debug applications, libraries, and operating system kernels (Linux), optimize for performance (from hand-coded assembly to web applications), debug complex multi-system problems, Linux/Unix administration, automation, continuous integration, web development, distributed VCS (i.e. git)</p>

<h3>Education</h3>
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA
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	<li>M.S. Computer Science and Applications (3.95/4.0 GPA) - June 2012
	<ul><li>Thesis: <a href="http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06122012-134840/"><i>LWFG: A Cache-Aware Multi-core Real-Time Scheduling Algorithm</i></a></li></ul>
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	<li>B.S. Computer Science / Math Minor (Summa Cum Laude - 3.90/4.0 GPA) - December 2010</li>
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