Jon Williams

Current

• Developer at Limewire

Past

• Web Programmer at New York University
• Web Developer at University of Rochester
• Application Developer at Montegonet Solutions

• Intern at Collegelink

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Education

• University of Rochester

Connections

89 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• Me on Github
• My Website

Jon Williams’s Summary

Software engineer developing dynamic web applications for 7+ years.

notable open source contributions: BitTorrent tracker implementation in Symfony (sfLimeTracker), patches to Symfony PHP web framework, port of C-language Kerberos module from PHP 4 to 5, patches to parallel port scanner drivers in Linux kernel (C), patches to File_Bittorrent2 PHP library

Jon Williams’s Specialties:

PHP, Symfony, Ajax, Javascript, HTML, CSS, XML, XHTML, RSS, SOAP, REST, JSON, MySQL, Perl, Linux, UNIX, Git, Subversion, Java, C, C++, C#, Pthreads, MPI, PD, MAX/MSP, P2P, BitTorrent, RSS/Atom, podcasts, usability, Microformats, Model View Controller design pattern, software project planning, Nmap, Tcpdump, OpenBSD, ipfw

Jon Williams’s Experience

• Developer

  Limewire

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Right now I'm (primarily) working on a BitTorrent tracker in the Symfony PHP framework destined to be part of this LimeCast thing -- http://limecast.com/

• Web Programmer

  New York University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  February 2006 — May 2008 (2 years 4 months)

  Planning, design and development of rich web applications on LAMP platform. Advisory role to deans and marketing on web marketing initiatives and technology decisions. Internal advocate for web technologies in the school.
  
  Work on various open source projects including Symfony PHP web framework, port of KerberosV bindings to php5

• Web Developer

  University of Rochester

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years)

  Web development in LAMP environment; projects of note included web-based frontend to ssh that served a glorified FTP client with the ability to audit content.

• Application Developer

  Montegonet Solutions

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

  Kiosk/web application development; Linux systems administration of email servers.

• Intern

  Collegelink

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

  Web development in ASP.

Jon Williams’s Education

• University of Rochester

  BS , Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Media Studies , 2000 — 2005

  My BS in computer science took the systems track, with a particular interest in parallel and distributed systems.

Additional Information

Jon Williams’s Websites:

• My Company
• Me on Github
• My Website

Jon Williams’s Interests:

video art, djing, bicycling

Jon Williams’s Groups:

•    symfony

Jon Williams’s Contact Settings

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