Daniel Quinlan

Software Architect and Technical Leader

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Technical Leader at Cisco Systems
  • Anti-Spam Architect at IronPort Systems
  • Developer and Project Management Committee member at Apache SpamAssassin
Past
  • V.P., Apache SpamAssassin at Apache Software Foundation
  • Anti-spam Development and Consulting at IronPort, Stata Laboratories, Habeas
  • Founder and Chairperson at Free Standards Group
  • Member of Technical Staff at Transmeta Corporation
Education
  • Bucknell University
Connections
102 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Daniel Quinlan’s Summary

Technical leader, software developer, with strong open source experience. Current focus on anti-spam and related messaging security problems, past focus on Linux. Always interested in complex problems.

Daniel Quinlan’s Specialties:

software architecture, technical leadership, open source software


Daniel Quinlan’s Experience

  • Technical Leader

    Cisco Systems

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

    June 2007Present (1 year 2 months)

  • Anti-Spam Architect

    IronPort Systems

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

    May 2004Present (4 years 3 months)

  • Developer and Project Management Committee member

    Apache SpamAssassin

    (Non-Profit; Computer & Network Security industry)

    May 2002Present (6 years 3 months)

    SpamAssassin joined the ASF in June 2004. Prior to that, SpamAssassin was an informal project hosted at SourceForge. The PMC determines the direction of the open source Apache SpamAssassin Project.

  • V.P., Apache SpamAssassin

    Apache Software Foundation

    (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

    June 2004July 2006 (2 years 2 months)

    Chairman of the Apache SpamAssassin Project Management Committee; led effort to bring SpamAssassin into the ASF; major SpamAssassin versions 3.0 and 3.1 were released.

  • Anti-spam Development and Consulting

    IronPort, Stata Laboratories, Habeas

    (Computer Software industry)

    July 2002May 2004 (1 year 11 months)

  • Founder and Chairperson

    Free Standards Group

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 2000January 2004 (3 years 9 months)

    Founded open source standards non-profit (now merged with ODSL to form the Linux Foundation). Elected to second term by individual membership, successfully led search committee to hire new Executive Director (former V.P. Marketing of Covalent) in 2004 who now leads the Linux Foundation.

  • Member of Technical Staff

    Transmeta Corporation

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; TMTA; Semiconductors industry)

    September 1996July 2002 (5 years 11 months)


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