Nathaniel C. Lanza
Email: nlanza@premodern.org 
(mail/phone contact info available on request)
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Professional Profile
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Eight years experience designing, building, and debugging complex networked
servers. Five years experience shipping production code to a variety of
customers. Proficient with UNIX development at both user and kernel level,
and comfortable with working under time pressure to meet changing customer
requirements.

Experience
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Apple Computer, Inc. - Software Engineer
Pittsburgh, PA (April 2006 - Present)
Part of the Productivity Engineering team inside the Applications division,
building consumer productivity software in the iWork suite. Designed and
implemented features and infrastructure components for the 1.0 release of
Numbers in the iWork ’08 release.

Panasas, Inc. - Software Engineer
Pittsburgh, PA (February 2001 - March 2006)
Designed, implemented, and maintained cache coherency protocols for a
high-performance distributed network filesystem, as well as handled various
performance and stability projects for the Panasas ActiveScale File System
(PanFS) server and DirectFLOW filesystem client products. Additional
projects include profile-driven system analysis and tuning, increasing the
system's scalability, improving crash recovery, implementing write-ahead
metadata logging, and diagnosing and solving customer crashes and
performance issues.

Parallel Data Lab - Research Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (February 1998 - February 2001)
Implemented a Linux kernel filesystem client for the EDRFS object-based
networked filesystem, supported the EDRFS server, and developed test suites
for the NASD object based disk prototype. Designed and implemented a
memory-backed SCSI passthrough device in the FreeBSD kernel for storage
system simulation and an iSCSI client and server for Linux and FreeBSD.
Wrote tools for use in filesystem aging research and access pattern
simulation, and performed general administrative tasks for the lab's
computing environment.


School of Computer Science Research Computing Facility - Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (September 1996 - February 1998)
Developed tools for administering the computing infrastructure at the
School of Computer Science. Projects included building and maintaining a
web interface to the SCS network database that allowed online queries and
updates of network information, and designing a general Java interface to
the SCS internal databases.

Computing Services Help Center - Phone and Email Consultant
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (October 1995 - September 1996)
Responsible for answering user questions about general computing issues and
internal Carnegie Mellon configuration. Additional responsibilities
included UNIX and Macintosh support and database maintenance.

Publications
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'NASD Scalable Storage Systems', Gibson, G.A., Nagle, D.F., Courtright II,
W., Lanza, N., Mazaitis, P., Unangst, M., Zelenka, J., USENIX99, Extreme
Linux Workshop, Monterey, CA, June 1999

Education
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
B.S. in Computer Science with a Minor in Creative Writing, 2002

Computing Experience
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Programming
Extensive experience with ANSI C, and Perl. Experience with C++, Objective
C, Java, and shell scripting (csh, sh, and derivatives). Extensive
experience with the GNU development suite (gcc/g++, gdb, gprof). Familiar
with debugging tools such as Purify, Lint, VTune, and Coverity.

Environments
Extensive user-level development experience with FreeBSD, Linux, and
Solaris. Kernel development experience with FreeBSD and Linux. Some
experience with Mac OS X Cocoa development.

References available on request.