Andrew E. Bruno is a software developer and GNU/Linux enthusiast based in Buffalo, NY. His interests include web development, high performance computing, and data visualization. Andrew graduated magna cum laude from the University at Buffalo with a degree in Computer Science.

Andrew currently works as a Senior Programmer Analyst at the Center for Computational Research at the University at Buffalo. He writes software to help support a large high performance computing facility and develops web based applications in areas such as healthcare, bioinformatics, and distributed computing. As part of the admin team he helps to administer CCR's computing infrastructure which includes a 2,112 processor Linux cluster. In an effort to better understand how resources at CCR were being utilized, Andrew lead the development of UBMoD, an open source data warehouse and web portal for mining statistical data from resource managers (such as TORQUE and Open PBS).

Previously, Andrew worked as a Software Engineer for O'Reilly Media developing web applications and data visualization tools. At O'Reilly, he was lead developer for SafariU, an innovative custom publishing platform and architect of the O'Reilly Research Portal, a system for visualizing book sales and technology trends using Treemaps. Before leaving O'Reilly, Andrew pioneered the development of a content repository for remixing O'Reilly's digital content built using Mark Logic and the Atom Publishing Protocol. He's also a contributor to Word Hacks.

Andrew is a contributor to Mark Logic's developer network and author of cqsh, an XQuery command line shell and mlxcc, a C API enabling access to Mark Logic from Perl, Ruby, PHP, and Python. Andrew was invited to speak at the 2nd (2005) and 3rd (2006) annual Mark Logic User conferences in which he co-presented cqsh, mlxcc, and projects from O'Reilly Labs.

In his spare time, Andrew does freelance consulting work specializing in custom web development and e-commerce solutions. When he's not hacking, Andrew loves cooking and playing the guitar. He's still mourning the loss of his 1972 VW Westfalia camper bus named stella and hopes to one day be a proud VW bus owner again.

You can contact him by email at aeb@qnot.org