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vline Bryan Costales
Author • Programmer • Visionary

Resumé and Work History
  • Author of books on sendmail, anti-spam, C language and Unix.
  • Experienced OpenSSL, TLS, public/private keys, Certificates.
  • Expert with Unix (Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, OS-X), DNS and routing.
  • Master programmer (C, Pthreads), script writer (sh, bash, csh), autoconf              
  • Web designer/programmer (html, php, mysql, css, rss, xml).
  • Capable manager of personnel and a team leader.
  • Inspiring technology advocate, experienced with the IETF.
  • Three issued and two pending patent, wrote/argued all but claims.

To download the full resumé in PDF format click here.
Last Updated: 2011-12-14

Cover Letter

I love to tenaciously solve unsolvable problems in an efficient, detail oriented, repeatable, and reliable manner. I believe that bugs, when found by QA, always improve code. Assumptions should be avoided at all costs, but when necessary must be clearly documented. And naturally everything designed and coded must reflect the core values of the organization.

I place security first, reliable bug-free operation second, and raw speed last. I am experienced with the HTTP, XHTTP, SSL, CSS, RSS, XML, DNS, SMTP, and TCP/IP protocols, the DKIM, SPF, DMARC, and ADSP standards, Bourne shell and C-shell scripting, and the PHP and C languages. Have written daemons to receive and verify signed SMTP email, to deliver images to a web server, to parse ARF messages, and to summarize the click-throughs created by a commercial web site, all able to handle millions of transactions per hour.

My specialization is in the C-language, p-threaded, multi-threaded, configurable daemon/servers. I am experienced with MySQL and have dabbled with Oracle.

I have been called, "an incredibly talented, master level C programmer," yet remain humbled by all there remains for me to learn.

I am equally comfortable in a leadership role or as a team member.

As for a few of my accomplishments:

Eight technical books, ranging from the "sendmail" book for O'Reilly Media, to "C From A To Z" for Prentice Hall, as well as over 100 short stories, all writen using Adobe Framemaker. View my publications on amazon.com

Dozens of web sites using CSS3 and XHTML and one using a propriatary, self-written, C-language replacement for Cassandra based on Berkeley DB.

Pertinacious photographer and videographer. Please visit my other web site to witness that aspect of me.

Specialties

C-language, gcc, p-threads, multi-threading, worker threads, PHP, PHP web design, HTTPS, SSL, SMTP, ESMTP, DNS and asynchronous DNS, Secure DNS, System administration, system manager, Solaris, OS-X, Linux.


Why the C Language? See The TIOBE Programming Community Index to understand why C still rivals Java.

To view samples of open-source software I have written, please click here.