NOTE:

   I like my current job, and I *am not* looking for a job right now.  
   When that changes, I'll change this resume.

   If you email me with a job offer based on having read this resume,
   I will assume you are not a very careful recruiter.

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NICHOLAS A. MATHEWSON

                                     Email: nickm at alum.mit.edu
                                     Web: http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/
                              
Objective
   A long-term position in software engineering.

Education
   Massachusetts Institute of Technology                  Sep 1995-Jun 2002
     - Received BS/MEng degrees in Computer Science, with minor in Linguistics.
     - Undergraduate GPA: 5.0/5.0.  Graduate GPA: 4.7/5.0.
     - Relevant courses included:
        Multithreaded Parallelism               Computer Systems Engineering
        Computer Language Engineering           Machine Learning
           (Compiler development)               Network and Computer Security
        Theory of Programming Languages
     - Masters thesis focused on automatic verification of information-hiding
       properties in Java bytecode.

Employment History
   CertCo                                       Cambridge, MA
   Contractor					June 1999-Aug 1999
     - Helped develop security/PKI software on Windows NT.
     - Worked with a small team to extend code in a large (200+ kloc)
       certificate distribution system.
     - Duties focused on developing user interface, database interface,
       and automatic code generation.

   MIT Computer Science Department              Cambridge, MA
   Teacher's Assistant                          Jan 1999-May 1999
     - Taught software engineering principles and techniques to a class of 
       20 students.
     - Designed and maintained course software (8 kloc) and web pages.

   MIT Laboratory for Computer Science          Cambridge, MA
   Research Assistant, Programmer		May 1997-June 2000
     - As an undergraduate, developed PolyJ, a compiler to add parameterized 
       types to Java. (35 kloc)
     - As a graduate student, researched thesis on privacy enforcement in Java
       bytecode through information flow control.  (Part of the Jif system.)

   Reputation Technologies                      Somerville, MA
   Chief Architect                              June 2000-Jan 2003
     - Designed and developed a data collection, analysis, and visualization 
       tool for use by purchasing managers in large corporations.
     - Served as technical lead for small team of engineers with varying
       degrees of expertise, to coordinate standards and practices to write
       software in Java; deliver on Linux, Windows, and Solaris; run on Oracle
       and SQLServer databases; and deploy on the JBoss and Weblogic J2EE 
       application servers.
     - Investigated, designed, and implemented analytic tools to run on large
       data sets, including Support Vector Machines, statistical
       classification, and various other machine learning techniques.

   Onion Routing Project                        Cambridge, MA
   Subcontractor                                Apr 2003-present
     - Subcontracted to develop an anonymous communications network
       for a research project at the US Naval Research Laboratory.
     - Focused on optimizing a tightly written C network application,
       while improving software quality and developing new features,
       including location-hidden servers.
     - Co-drafted technical specification of anonymity protocol.

Open source projects
   Mixminion                                    http://www.mixminion.net
   Principal developer                          May 2002-present
     - Helped design a next-generation secure anonymous communications
       protocol to address flaws in current Type I ("Cypherpunks") and Type II
       ("Mixmaster") designs.
     - Created a reference implementation for Type III anonymous remailers in
       a mixture of C and Python (31 kloc).
     - Worked with server operators to deploy a testing network, currently in
       operation.

Publications
   Nick Mathewson, Roger Dingledine. Practical Traffic Analysis: Extending
    and Resisting Statistical Disclosure. Submitted.
   Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, Paul Syverson. Tor: The Second-Generation
     Onion Router. Submitted.
   Nick Mathewson, Roger Dingledine. Mixminion: Strong Anonymity for Financial
     Cryptography. Financial Cryptography, Feb 2004.
   Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, Paul Syverson. "Reputation in Privacy
     Enhancing Technologies." Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, Apr 2002.
   George Danezis, Roger Dingledine, and Nick Mathewson.
     "Mixminion: Design of a Type III Anonymous Remailer Protocol."  IEEE
     Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2003.
   Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, Paul Syverson. "Reputation in P2P
     Anonymity Systems." Workshop on Economics of P2P systems, June 2003.

Skills
   Programming Languages
     - Strong experience in C, C++, Java, Perl, and Python.  Fair
       experience with many other languages.
   Operating Systems
     - Strong experience in Linux/Unix use, programming, and internals.
       Some experience with Windows development.
   Tools and Technologies
     - Strong knowledge of compiler frontends, Unix networking, Unix GUI
       development tools, network security, and CGI.  Working knowledge of
       CORBA, XML, Gnome, X Window system, OS security, IPC, Matlab, SQL, and
       Docbook, interface design.
   Human Languages
     - Functional in Spanish

Awards
   Anna Pogosyants UROP Award                   1998
     - Won annual undergraduate research award for work on PolyJ compiler.

Hobbies
   International cooking, Tae Kwon Do, science fiction, film appreciation,
   photography, swing dance, and Joycean studies.
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