Niall O'Higgins

Current

• Co-founder at P2P Research Institute
• Software Engineer at Metaweb, Inc.
• Software Developer at OpenBSD Project

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Past

• Intern at Nimblefish Technologies

Education

• University College Dublin

Recommended

3 people have recommended Niall

Connections

177 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• niallohiggins.com
• p2presearch.com
• pywebsf.org

Niall O'Higgins’s Summary

Distributed, fault-tolerant, high-performance systems
Peer-to-Peer technology
Efficient UNIX network applications
Fast HTTP caches
Web clients powered by REST-ful HTTP APIs
Scalable databases
Replicating key/value stores
Configuration languages
Build systems
Deployment infrastructure
Kernel drivers
Systems-level debugging

Niall O'Higgins’s Specialties:

P2P, BitTorrent, Distributed Systems, Web Applications, C, Python, Build/Configuration/Deployment Systems, Security, Correctness, Performance.

Niall O'Higgins’s Experience

• Co-founder

  P2P Research Institute

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

• Software Engineer

  Metaweb, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

• Software Developer

  OpenBSD Project

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)

  Focus mostly on OpenCVS and OpenRCS version control systems.
  Also work on 802.11 wireless device drivers, application ports, auditing, adding large file support to ext2fs, ARM kernel code.

• Intern

  Nimblefish Technologies

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

Niall O'Higgins’s Education

• University College Dublin

  Computer Science , Computer Science, French , September 2001 — June 2006

  Executive Officer and Head Systems Administrator of Internet Society, responsible for organising large events with international speakers and ultimately responsible for maintaining 24/7/365 service (web, email, database, shell, more) to hundreds of users across multiple hardware and software platforms including Sun Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

  Activities and Societies:

  Internet Society, French Society

Additional Information

Niall O'Higgins’s Websites:

• niallohiggins.com
• p2presearch.com
• pywebsf.org

Niall O'Higgins’s Interests:

distributed systems, p2p, bittorrent, network security, systems programming, secure programming techniques, static verification, automatic software testing, web applications, databases, version control systems, OpenBSD, OpenCVS, device drivers, wireless networks, crossfit, krav maga, boxing, bicycling, jazz.

Niall O'Higgins’s Groups:

OpenBSD, UCD Internet Society, P2P Research Institute, Py Web SF

•    Python Community
•    Irish Network San Francisco
•    BSD UNIX
•    Freebase.com
•    Py Web SF

Niall O'Higgins’s Honors:

IBM Open Source award, 2006
UCD French scholarship for top performance, 2005
UCD Computer Science scholarship for top performance, 2002
Young Musician of the Year award, New School of Music, 2001
Young Guitarist of the Year award, New School of Music, 2000

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