Hyrum K. Wright

Objective

Contribute solutions to interesting problems. I work best in a fun, fast-paced environment, where my skills and abilities can be used to solve real problems. I am particularly interested in developing great software, and "building cool stuff".

Experience

January 2010-Present | WANdisco, Inc. | Director of Open Source

• Managed team of open source developers working on a number of projects.
• Directed company open source initiatives and strategy.

Dec. 2006-Present | Subversion Open Source Project | Full Committer, Release Manager

• Funded during the summer of 2007, through Google Summer of Code to develop some of the merge tracking auditing features.
• Worked on Subversion-related contract and consulting projects.
• Current release manager.
• Current president of the Subversion Corporation.

May 2007-Present | University of Texas at Austin | Research Assistant

• Helped develop and test wireless network prototyping environment.
• Ran experiments to test various MAC and physical layer protocol capabilities.

Dec. 2008-Dec. 2009 | PrO Unlimited | Subversion Contractor

• Contractor assigned to Juniper Networks to assist with CVS-to-Subversion migration.
• Helped design and implement new working copy metadata management library for Subversion.

May 2008-August 2008 | VMware, Inc. | Technical Staff Intern

• Responsible for design and development of Linux guest-based tools notification feature.

Sept. 2006-May 2008 | University of Texas at Austin | Teaching Assistant

• Head TA for graduate Engineering Programming Languages course.
• TA for Java-based Data Structures course.
• One of several TAs for entry-level Intro to Programming course.

April 2002-August 2006 | Brigham Young University, Office of Information Technology | Software Engineer

• While an undergraduate student, helped build and maintain the University's academic web applications, including registration and grading.
• For the last year of my time, I was the lead engineer in developing a new student planning product, assisting with the design of the system, and supervising implementation.

January 2005-January 2006 | BYU Ares Project | Avionics Team Leader (Member, Jan. 2004-Jan.2006)

• Directed the design and construction of the flight electronics responsible for controlling a 20-foot hybrid rocket.

Education

2006-Present | University of Texas at Austin

• Doctoral student in Computer Engineering
• Research interests: software engineering, release process management, open source software development

2006-2008 | University of Texas at Austin

• M. S. in Engineering, Computer Engineering
• Research area: Software Engineering, Wireless Networking

2002-2006 | Brigham Young University

• B.S. in Computer Engineering
• Minor in Mathematics

Courses of interest include:

Wireless Communication, Advanced Operating Systems, Computer Networking, Embedded Systems, Real-Time Operating Systems, Verification & Validation, Statistical Methods, Requirements Engineering, Compilers, Collaborative Development

Publications

• H. Wright, Release Engineering Processes, Models, and Metrics, Doctoral Symposium, ESEC/FSE 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 25, 2009. [PDF] [BibTeX]
• H. Wright and D. Perry, Subversion 1.5: A Case Study in Open Source Release Mismanagement, 2nd Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, May 18, 2009. [PDF] [BibTeX]
• W. Kim, M. Khan, K. Truong, S. Choi, R. Grant, H. Wright, K. Mandke, R. Daniels, R. Heath, Jr., S. Nettles, An Experimental Evaluation of Rate Adaptation for Multi-Antenna Systems, INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 20-25, 2009. [PDF] [BibTeX]
• W. Kim, H. Wright, and S. Nettles, Improving the Performance of Multi-hop Wireless Networks using Frame Aggregation and Broadcast for TCP ACKs, ACM CoNEXT 2008, Madrid, Spain, December 9-12, 2008. [PDF] [BibTeX]

Presentations

• H. Wright, WC-NG: Subversion's New Working Copy Management Library, SubConf & CMConf 2009, Munich, Germany, October 27-29, 2009.
• S. Sperling, H. Wright, Subversion's Release Process, SubConf & CMConf 2009, Munich, Germany, October 27-29, 2009.
• H. Wright, Release Mismanagement: How to Alienate Users and Frustrate Developers, OSCON 2009, San Jose, California, July 20-24, 2009.
• H. Wright, What's New in Subversion 1.6, Southern California Linux Expo 7x, Los Angeles, California, February 20, 2009.
• R. Grant and H. Wright, Hydra: A Wireless Multi-hop Wireless Testbed, OSCON 2008, Portland, Oregon, July 21-25, 2008.

Skills

Programming Languages

• Fluent: C, Python, HTML, SQL
• Comfortable: C++, Java, XML
• Previously used: XSLT, Ruby

Awards/Honors

EDGE Center Scholar, 2006-2007

BYU University Academic Scholarship, 2002-2006

Dean's List, 2002-2003, 2003-2004

Eagle Scout, 1995

Memberships

Apache Software Foundation

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Graduate Student Member

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Graduate Student Member

Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society

The Subversion Corporation, President 2009-Present

Miscellany

Volunteer missionary, 2000-2002

Spent two years as a volunteer missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Los Angeles, California. Responsibilities included directing daily proselyting activities, and managing groups of 6-8 other missionaries in the same.

Amatuer Radio Operator, Extra Class. Callsign: N7YM