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 Curriculum Vitae
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:Name: Keegan Carruthers-Smith
:Contact: keegan.csmith@gmail.com
:Website: http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~ksmith/
:Location: Southern Suburbs, Cape Town, South Africa

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Education
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I have a Bachelor of Science with distinction in Computer Science and
Mathematics and the degree with distinction. I also have a BSc Honours in the
Mathematics of Computer Science with Distinction (The degree comprises honours
modules in Pure Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science and Experimental
Computer Science). I was doing a Masters in Computer Science, but dropped out
to work instead.


.. 1st Year Results
.. ----------------

.. =============================   ===
.. Computer Science 118 (Python)   87%
.. Computer Science 1B (Java)      78%
.. Mathematics 1                   85%
.. Statistics                      73%
.. Microeconomics                  71%
.. Macroeconomics                  63%
.. Thinking About Business 1       64%
.. =============================   ===

.. 2nd Year Results
.. ----------------

.. =============================   ===
.. Mathematics 2			75%
.. Mathematics 201			77%
.. Computer Science 2A		89%
.. Computer Science 2B		75%
.. Computer Games & Simulation	60%
.. =============================   ===

.. 3rd Year Results
.. ----------------

.. =============================   ===
.. Mathematics 3                   94%
.. Computer Science 3A             73%
.. Computer Science 3B             85%
.. =============================   ===

.. TODO add link to unofficial transcript

Employment History
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* **2012** - Currently a Software Engineer at `Facebook
  <https://www.facebook.com/>`_.

* **2012** - Contract work `Snapbill <http://snapbill.com/>`_. Technologies
  used: PHP, Python, Puppet

* **2011** - Internship at `Nimbula <http://nimbula.com/>`_. Wrote an EC2 API
  Shim. This was a service which exposed an EC2 SOAP and REST API and
  translated the requests into Nimbula Director API requests. Technologies
  used: Python and Twisted.

* **2010** - Internship at `Amazon Web Services <http://aws.amazon.com/>`_ on
  the EC2 Team. My first project was replacing an internal XML-RPC system with
  something faster (ended up being JSON). The second project was creating a
  distributed monitoring system of the EC2 API, which alarms on elevated
  failure rates. Technologies used: Java, Python and EC2.

* **2008** - Contracting work at `CareerJunction
  <http://www.careerjunction.co.za/>`_ as a Junior Python Developer. Wrote a
  restful broker in Django which validates/transforms HRXML documents to
  internal systems. Technologies used: Django, lxml and the TurboGears Stack.

* **2008** - Wrote a command-line wrapper around libgpod for iPod syncing in
  the `Fun Station Project <http://www.funstation.com.br/>`_. Technologies
  used: C.

* **2007** - System Administration and Code maintenance for `The Hitforge
  <http://www.hitforge.com/>`_. Technologies used: FreeBSD, Trac, PHP,
  Apache, eJabberD, Python.

* **2007** - Vacation work at `Postilion
  <http://www.postilion.com/>`_. Maintenance and feature addition for
  management reports. Technologies used: Python & SQL Server.

* **2007** - Set course-work for 1st year Python course at University of Cape
  Town.  The Python course is a course for above average students, that
  already know how to program in Java. Topics covered: Python Syntax and Data
  Type, UML, Unit Testing, Regular Expressions and Functional Programming.

* **2006** - Two internships at Standard Bank. I was a bursary student, but
  discontinued the bursary to look for more interesting opportunities. I did
  work in C# and Java. C# work was a basic front-end to a SQL database. The
  Java work was Servlets for another database. Another project that I worked
  on was a Java servlet that generated a graph of the dependencies between
  Oracle databases.

Programming Languages
=====================

I am proficient in the following languages:

* Python
* Java
* C/C++

I have written small amounts of code in the following languages:

* Emacs Lisp
* Haskell
* Bash
* C#
* PHP
* XSLT


Open Source Project
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I enjoy using open source software and often publish code I have written as
open source. See my `code <http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~ksmith/code.html>`_
for more info.

.. FUSEPod
.. -------

.. `FUSEPod <http://fusepod.sf.net/>`_ is a user space file system that uses
.. `FUSE <http://fuse.sf.net>`_ to mount an iPod for easy browsing of the
.. songs. Written in C++. Uses FUSE and libgpod.

.. AmarokPidgin
.. ------------

.. `AmarokPidgin <http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~ksmith/AmarokPidgin.html>`_ is a
.. plug-in for Amarok that updates your Pidgin status message with what you are
.. currently listening to. Written in Python. Uses DCOP and DBUS for
.. inter-process communication.


Olympiads
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I have participated in many computer olympiads. These are contests that test
your problem solving skills as well as implementation, testing and debugging
skills. Below is a summary of my results in major contests in chronological
order.

* Bronze medal in SACO 2004 (South African Computer Olympiad)
* Represented South Africa at the IOI in 2005 in Poland (International
  Olympiad in Informatics)
* Silver medal in SACO 2005
* Ended the USACO 2005/2006 season in the Gold Division (USA Computer
  Olympiad)
* Silver medal in the IOI 2006 in Mexico
* Team was second in the ACM ICPC Southern African Regionals 2006
* Team was third in the ACM ICPC Southern African Regionals 2007
* Team was third in Standard Bank IT Challenge Finals 2008
* Advanced to Round 3 of the Google Code Jam 2008
* Team was first in the ACM ICPC Southern African Regionals 2008
* Team attended the ACM ICPC World Finals 2009 in Sweden. Came 2nd in the
  African/Middle-East Super Region and tied for 49th in the overall standings.
* Team was first in the ACM ICPC Southern African Regional 2009
* Attended ACM ICPC World Finals in Harbin, China in February 2010
* 9th in Code Jam Africa and Arabia 2011

I have been serving on the Scientific Committee for the South African Computer
Olympiad since 2006. This entails setting problems and writing solutions (in
Python, C++ and Java) for the SACO 2nd and 3rd round, and for the training
camps for IOI selection.

Other Awards
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* High school: Merit List; First in Advanced Maths, Computer Science,
  Accounting
* Dean's Merit List 2006, 2007 and 2008
* Computer Science 2A Merit List

Other Computer Interests
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* Unix. I use Ubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD
* Being a console junkie. I can 'live' in screen, emacs, irssi, etc
* Functional Programming. Haskell, Lisp, Functional Style in Python
* LaTeX

Interests Outside of Computers
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* Abstract Mathematics. Especially Point-Set Topology, Logic, Category Theory
  and the more theoretical sides of Computer Science such as Computability
  Theory.
* Squash and Skateboarding.

References
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On request I can supply references.