Bart Trojanowski

president of this successful consulting company specializing in Linux software design and development; has been involved in the design and implementation of a distributed file system, development and porting of several PCI device drivers, and continued development of a Linux IPSec stack; has helped clients draft the architecture for embedded platforms, designed cross-platform driver and system software, and debuged various kernel and real-time issues; has been involved with system bootstrap and x86 BIOS, the X.org system, Linux network internals, deep packet inspection, PPPoE/PPPoA server software, and security software; has contributed patches to open source software, and given lectures on the Linux kernel and Git revision control tool; as part of ongoing efforts to keep current, is passionately following various open source projects such as the Linux kernel and Google Android.

worked on debugging and extending the functionality of the FortiLog product, which was designed to collect events from other FortiNet units and generate reports; scope extended to developing software to handle various RAID configurations, detecting and acting on faults, and helping integrate code into several existing products.

designed, implemented, and responsible for a set of drivers handling telecom radio communication and configuration, via PCI bus using async DMA; the target platforms of said drivers were arm-linux and x86-linux.

designed, implemented, and responsible for maintenance of a cross platform (Linux/FreeBSD) driver and debug tools for a PCI device; helped in porting it to WinNT and Solaris; designed and implemented an automated testing environment for the PCI device; involved in porting a kernel IPSec implementation to use a hardware accelerator; wrote various kernel modules to exercise the Chrysalis-ITS hardware; also, worked on various internal tools used by the firmware developers; provided Linux tutelage to other project developers; as a background task maintained a project CVS/NFS server for various developers.

developed and maintained a Java based status & control application; researched the needed tools and support software, in part designed, and developed the majority of the firmware to drive the next generation Superflex product; firmware was written in C++, taking advantage of POSIX threads, and ran on Linux; reduced a Linux install to fit on an 8M flash disk; extensively involved in design of the firmware and control protocol specification for the new data satellite receiver; solely responsible for research of technologies and development of the firmware.

designed and implemented a Java based status and control GUI for the Superflex line of satellite receivers; helped in the effort of debugging pSOS-based firmware, written in C++, that was configured by the GUI; as a result became very comfortable with switching between Java and C++; aided in the debugging efforts of a QNX system control software used to remotely control receivers; maintained transmit-side modulator software; as a side project built and maintained a Linux router & server that ran a mail spooler, a local DNS and other services.

involved in the development of Sparrow GIS software; duties range from constructing graphing and charting facilities, to user interface design and debugging code for Sparrow, a program which visually represents geographical statistics retrieved from relational databases; involved in supervising and development of many projects including "Parks Fire Web," an Intranet & Internet solution to distributing public and internal forest fire information amongst its institutions.

participated in the development of the fire management system put in place by National Parks of Canada; duties included the design of a GUI to provide remote database access functions & greater ease of use; updating this system to current client requirements, adding functionality to the existing application.

while on the project entitled "Newspapers for the blind" assisted the visually challenged in setting up VBI equipment in order to receive an electronic news feed; participated in a team environment to develop a WWW server, for Smart Communities, that mimicked Yellow Pages but in electronic form.

briefly introduced to networking on IBM/9000, the Virtual Machine environment and UNIX architectures; tasks involved developing database entry sheets for personnel, payroll and security data on the VM; also developed helper applications using C on UNIX.