Daniel Quinlan

Current

• Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems
• Developer and Project Management Committee member at Apache SpamAssassin

Past

• Anti-Spam Architect at IronPort Systems
• 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

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Education

• Bucknell University

Connections

125 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Daniel Quinlan’s Summary

Technical leader, software developer, with strong open source experience. Current focus on security technology, past focus on Linux. Always interested in complex problems.

Daniel Quinlan’s Specialties:

software architecture, technical leadership, open source software

Daniel Quinlan’s Experience

• Principal Engineer

  Cisco Systems

  (Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

• Developer and Project Management Committee member

  Apache SpamAssassin

  (Non-Profit; Computer & Network Security industry)

  May 2002 — Present (7 years 7 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.

• Anti-Spam Architect

  IronPort Systems

  (Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

  May 2004 — June 2007 (3 years 2 months)

• V.P., Apache SpamAssassin

  Apache Software Foundation

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — July 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 2002 — May 2004 (1 year 11 months)

• Founder and Chairperson

  Free Standards Group

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

  May 2000 — January 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 1996 — July 2002 (5 years 11 months)

Additional Information

Daniel Quinlan’s Websites:

• My Website

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