Lucas Nussbaum - Résumé


Contact Information:

    Lucas Nussbaum
    20 rue Camille Roy
    69007 Lyon
    France
    
    Phone: +33 6 64 71 41 65
    Email: lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net
    URL: http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/
    

Professional Objective:

    Work on technically challenging and innovative projects

Experience:

    PhD Student
    Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble - MESCAL INRIA Project
    2005 - Present
        
        PhD thesis on the study of distributed systems using emulation
        (execution of applications in an artificial environment instead of
        using simulation, or execution on real systems).
        
        Gained a deep expertise in software network emulators (Dummynet,
        NISTNet, Linux TC/Netem).
        
        Built a prototype emulator for P2P systems using FreeBSD, involving
        a Libc modification to allow transparent network virtualization at
        the process level.
        
    Debian Developer
    The Debian Project
    2006 - Present
        
        Volunteer Developer for the Debian GNU/Linux Operating System.
        Active member of the Quality Assurance and Ruby teams.
        
        Performed rebuilds of all packages from their sources on a regular
        basis, using a cluster of PCs (allowing the rebuilding of all
        packages in less than 5 hours, vs 10 days on a single system). This
        allows proactive detection and fixing of problems, as well as
        evaluation of the consequences of changes (such as the introduction
        of a new compiler version).
        
        Developed tools to detect packages that are poorly maintained, and
        keep maintainers aware of problems with their packages.
        
    Member of the Grid'5000 Technical Commitee
    Grid'5000 experimental computer Grid
    2005 - Present
        
        Active member of the Technical Commitee of Grid'5000, a 4000-CPU
        Grid dedicated to research in Computer Science. Participated in the
        design and development of the infrastructure.
        
    Teaching assistant
    IUT2 de Grenoble - Département Informatique
    2005 - Present
        
        Taught computer science courses at the B.S. level, including
        operating systems, networks, databases, and C programming.
        
    Free Software Developer
    2000 - Present
        
        Member of the XMPP foundation. Developed XMPP4R, a Jabber library
        for the Ruby programming language. Created and maintained the
        largest French Jabber server.
        
        Wrote Feed2Imap, an RSS/Atom feed aggregator that uploads articles
        to an IMAP server, and Ruby-feedparser, the underlying library.
        
        Regularly gave talks in French and English at Free Software
        conferences and organized conferences or meetings.
        

Education:

    Ingénieur INPG-ENSIMAG, July 2005
    equiv. to a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
    École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques
    Appliquées de Grenoble (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble)
    
    Master 2 Recherche Systèmes et Logiciels, July 2005
    equiv. to a M.S. in Computer Science, with a research focus
    Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France)
    

Selected publications:

    Lucas Nussbaum, Olivier Richard. "Lightweight emulation to study
    peer-to-peer systems". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and
    Experience. 2007.

    Lucas Nussbaum. "Use of Grid Computing for Debian Quality
    Assurance". FOSDEM 2007.