Quentin Smith
quentin@mit.edu
qsmith@gmail.com
86 Plymouth St #2
Cambridge, MA 02141
Phone: (617) 229-7724
Work Experience
- US Citizen
- Google, Inc (Cambridge, MA)
- 2017—Present - Software Engineer, working on Google Cloud Monitoring.
- 2016—2017 - Software Engineer, working on the Go programming language.
- 2011—2016 - Software Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer, working on Google Flight Search.
- Summer 2006 - Internship as Software Engineer in Test. Developed test software for Google Book Search.
- MIT (Cambridge, MA)
- Fall 2010 - Teaching Assistant, 6.004 - Computation Structures
- May 2007—June 2010 - Residential Computing Consultant, MIT Information Services & Technology.
- June 2009—August 2009 - Undergraduate Researcher, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
- December 2006—June 2010 - Teaching Assistant, New Media Center.
- LiquidPixels (Bedford, MA)
- Summer 2008, 2010 - Software Engineer. Developed and maintained dynamic imaging framework and hosted service.
- Akamai Technologies (Cambridge, MA)
- Summer 2007 - Internship in Distributed Data Collection. Developed software for log processing and billing system.
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. BS received in June 2010 in VI-II, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. On leave from MEng program, concentrating in Systems.
- High School: Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA. Graduated June 2006. U.S. Presidential Scholar, Rensselaer Medalist, National Merit Finalist.
- Research Science Institute (RSI) Summer 2005 - 6-week program for high school students held at MIT. Performed research on JCilk, a programming language for parallel processing, under the mentorship of Prof. Charles Leiserson, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Technical Skills
Affiliations/Presentations
- Mentor – 2012—Present – MIT 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems. I mentor approximately 4 students per semester in software engineering.
- Member – 2009—Present – MIT Campus Emergency Response Team.
- Executive Committee Member – 2009—2011 – Student Information Processing Board (SIPB), student computing group at MIT.
- Advisory Board Member – The Tech, MIT's student
newspaper and the first newspaper on the web.
- Chief of Information Technology – 2010 – MIT Undergraduate Association, the
student government of MIT. I was responsible for maintaining the UA's
website and servers, as well as advocate on behalf of students for
IT-related policy changes at MIT.
- I teach a two-week class entitled “Programming in Perl” during MIT's annual Independent Activities Period (IAP), 2007-2015.
- I presented SIPB cluedumps entitled “Technical Overview of scripts.mit.edu” in October 2007, 2008, and 2019.
- "YouTomb—a Free Culture Hack", presented at the Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference, July 20, 2008, New York, NY (with Oliver Day, Dean Jansen, and Christina Xu).
Programming Languages
AppleScript, Bash, C/C++, Microchip C18/PIC-C, Go, (X)HTML, Java, JavaScript, Mathematica, Matlab, Objective C, Perl, PHP, Python 2, Python 3, Rust, and Scheme
Operating Systems
Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Linux, Mac OS X, various embedded operating systems.
Network/Admin Experience
- I maintained the build infrastructure for the Go programming language project.
- I was the team leader of scripts.mit.edu from 2007-2010, the only dynamic web hosting system for general use at MIT. scripts.mit.edu currently has ~8000 registered "content providers" (individuals and organizations).
- I administer several other SIPB services, including a virtual machine hosting service, OpenAFS file hosting service, and a Voice over IP application hosting service.
- I maintained the Library Access to Music Project, a SIPB/MIT iCampus project to exploit the "analog hole" to deliver music to dorm residents.
Notable Projects I Have Worked on
- I was a member of the core Go programming language team, triaging
bug reports, implementing fixes and features for the standard library,
and improving release engineering tools.
- I am one of the authors of Mosh, a
remote terminal application that improves greatly on SSH's performance
in poor network environments. (C++)
- I was one of the developers of the 2018 MIT Mystery
Hunt. (Go, Python, JavaScript)
- I am the author of go-pvaccess,
a Go library for interacting with the Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System. (Go)
- I am one of the maintainers of MacAthena
- I developed the DHCP and VNC servers for Invirt, a virtual machine hosting
system that SIPB built for the MIT community. (Python, Perl, Java)
- I was one of the lead developers of YouTomb, a project of MIT Free
Culture. YouTomb scanned YouTube and collects information about videos
that have been taken down due to claimed copyright infringement. http://youtomb.mit.edu/. (Python,
Perl)
- I wrote the software for theremin modules developed by Dropout Design, LLC to
produce theremin-like sounds. (C)
- I developed the hardware and software for a digitally-controlled
waterfall that can display images and text. (PIC-C, Python)
Other Interests/Activities
- Governor – 2008—2011 – Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC). MIT's
TMRC is widely regarded as the birthplace of "hacking" culture, as
described in Steven Levy's book Hackers, Heroes of the
Computer Revolution.
- Music and Theater – Asst. Technical Director for the
Musical Theater Guild (MTG)'s
Fall 2006 production, Children of Eden. Member of the Board, MTG. Member, Techiya a cappella group,
2006-2008.
- Radio – I am a licensed
amateur radio operator (Amateur Extra class; call sign AB1IZ). I have been
actively involved in my high school's Low Power FM radio station
(WRLA 89.3FM Groton, MA) as its Station Manager.
- Robotics
- FIRST robotics (2004-2006). I was the lead for both
the programming and electronics teams. The FIRST microcontroller is an
embedded PIC microcontroller programmed in C.
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