Brian D. Carlstrom

Engineering software

Member of the Transactional Coherence and Consistency project researching hardware supported transactional memory models. Research focused on parallel programming with transactional memory. Built upon IBM's Jikes Research Virtual Machine to evaluate programming models, benchmarks, and new programming language features. Significant C++ development on our architecture simulator, including moving from PowerPC-only to include support for x86.

CS315a Parallel Architecture and Programming

Part-time advisory role during my time as a Stanford graduate student.

As architect for Buyer 8.0 release was involved in content definition, planning, feature design reviews, and operational execution. Evolved development process through component ownership practices. Consulted on refactoring to create application platform, the core of new Ariba products. Drove code cleanliness projects to remove JDK 1.1 limitations and supportability issues. Worked with legal, documentation, and engineering on many third party licensing issues. Drove technical leader review process, identifying future candidates, and worked with managers on the candidate's career development.

Led Buyer 7.0 Server team projects which involved design reviews, schedule tracking, and issue resolution. Delivered refactoring of server technologies such as object-relational mapping, RPC, and utility libraries for use by other products. Ariba Analysis was built from scratch on this platform and existing applications have begun adoption. Converted from RSA to Entrust crytography to reduce cost of goods sold, at the same time enhancing our security API. Created first unit test infrastructure and unit tests, now integrated with JUnit. Created 8.0 requirements and initial designs for database archiving and data migration. As acting manager, heavily involved in recruiting including college hiring. As acting director, coordinated office move.

Member of original team that designed and implemented the Ariba Buyer product. Drove engineering closure on first product spec. Created the Approvable document architecture, the user permissions model, and a Scheme interpreter for business rules. Implemented SMTP client and server for notification. Responsible for HTTP server used for printing and attachments and later converted it to the servlet API. Created Inspector tool for runtime debugging. Created command line monitoring tools to automate operations. Removed explicit locking from object model to simplify API. Converted RPC from using a thread per client to worker queues to improve scalability. Created javadoc doclet to allow fine grain control over published API. Assisted globalization by removing deprecated JDK 1.0 APIs. Converted all production batch and shell scripts to Perl for portability. Created and maintained development web site, mailing lists, and Emacs development environment.

Operating resource management system
Norman Adams, Marc Brown, Brian Carlstrom, Brian Elkin, Paul Hegarty, Guy Haskin, Boris Putanec

Developer for OM-Express, a browser accelerator for Windows. Performed memory analysis prior to 1.0 release. Analyzed networking performance for various TCP/IP stacks. Reimplemented core URL technology to be RFC compliant.

Developed Java Virtual Machine for Magic Cap devices. Used this VM in new implementation of MagicScript authoring language. Worked on port of the Telescript language interpreter to Win32. Ported Telescript Access Service to Windows 3.1 and Win32 to enable Visual Basic interfaces to Telescript services.

Co-author of the open source project Scsh, the Scheme Shell. Scsh is a POSIX environment based on the Scheme dialect of the Lisp programming language. Involved in all aspects of the system including design, implementation, documentation, testing, and release. Scsh is used for CGI scripts, network applications, and general purpose shell scripts. Used Scsh to develop several applications including a mobile web browser for the Apple Newton and a web server that is extensible in Scsh and CGI.

Developed sequential to parallel research compiler for the Scheme dialect of Lisp. Implemented C Language back-end for modified Gambit Scheme compiler. Implemented runtime system for workstation simulation and for execution on the Thinking Machines CM-5.

Implemented airline schedule optimizer for NASA and McDonnell-Douglas. Integrated optimizer with a graphical schedule editor and assisted in product delivery including installation and user training. Set up and administered lab of Sun and Apollo workstations.

Graduate work in programming languages and computer architecture.
Thesis on Programming with Transactional Memory.
Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellow 2005-2007.
Stanford School of Engineering Graduate Council 2005.
Stanford Computer Science Department Student Services Award 2004-2005.
Stanford Computer Science Department Ph.D. Program Commitee 2003-2007.

Thesis on Embedding Scheme in Java.

Minor in Science, Technology, and Society. Undergraduate project on a P2P messaging system.