Karl Norby

Current

• Jr. Software Engineer at Tradelink
• System Administrator at University of Chicago CSIL

Past

• Student in ORAU HERE Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Student in ORAU HERE Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Education

• University of Chicago
• Williams College

Connections

36 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Karl Norby’s Summary

Computer Science Student at the University of Chicago, with an interest in software development. Experience with development, mostly in Python, as well as experience with system administration on most platforms, primarily *nix.

Karl Norby’s Specialties:

Python, XML, *nix system administration

Karl Norby’s Experience

• Jr. Software Engineer

  Tradelink

  (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  I was a Sysadmin until April 2009.

• System Administrator

  University of Chicago CSIL

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  Oversee and maintain services, security, and backups on the lab servers (mostly running Mac OS X Server); oversee, maintain, and develop a lab printing server and job filtering system; help maintain a laboratory software image; provide assistance to users

• Student in ORAU HERE Program

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  June 2007 — September 2007 (4 months)

  I worked on browser-based XML viewer/editor, using a rule-based approach, which allowed for the creation and dynamic application of format-specific views. I was working in the Computation Materials Science group as a student in the ORAU HERE Program.

• Student in ORAU HERE Program

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  June 2006 — September 2006 (4 months)

  I developed PyXSD (http://pyxsd.org/), a XML Schema validation and python object mapping library, l while working in the Computational Materials Science group as a student participant in the HERE program.

Karl Norby’s Education

• University of Chicago

  Computer Science 2006 — 2010 (expected)

  Activities and Societies:

  ACM, Ryerson Astronomical Society, ACLU

• Williams College

  2005 — 2006

  I took classes here while in high school

Additional Information

Karl Norby’s Interests:

Python, Javascript, XML, *nix System Administration, Open Source Software, data mining

Karl Norby’s Groups:

ACM

•    Python Community
•    PyCon 2008
•    Pumping Station: One

Karl Norby’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• new ventures
• getting back in touch