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Bill Bereza

Vice President, Co-founder
I’ve been programming for fun since 1989 when I learned BASIC on a 10 year old TRS-80. At various times over the years certain organizations have even been willing to pay for my recreation.

I graduated from Grand Valley State University in 1996. While there I presented a paper at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research based on work in Distributed Genetic Objects. I also created a motion detection and tracking system on a NextStep system using Objective-C.

I joined the National Security Agency in 1998 as a Computer Scientist, working at Fort Meade, MD.

In early 2000 I joined Carl to work for a small startup, deltamode, Inc. While at deltamode, I created a variety of Java SOAP services, including directory, identification, and security management. I implemented an X.509 PKI using Java JCE and JSSE, and designed a remote certification generation scheme for authenticated, distributed nodes in the system. I also created an automatic firewall tunneling and redirection service which allowed a distributed system to operate transparently and securely across heterogeneous networks.

deltamode ran out of money in 2001. Carl and I started Atomic Object that Fall.

My role at Atomic Object today is as a Molecule Lead. That’s our designation for a senior developer whose job, in addition to day-to-day programming, is to also manage a set of customers and their projects.

Some of the interesting things I’ve worked on at AO:

  • Applying Agile practices to embedded development. This spawned the Unity and CMock projects (a tiny embeddable unit test library for C, and a mock generator for C).
  • Creating a nice burndown Numbers file for project management which has been very helpful for estimating and tracking projects.

Some of the conference I’ve presented at:

Selected (personal) software projects:

  • JBooks – Java-SQL based personal finance application.
  • btty – software Baudot TDD/TTY modem
  • dict – URL protocol handler for Java
  • Phone Machine – Java voicemail/fax GUI frontend to vgetty
  • docgen – Objective-C source code documentation generator
  • Dog Daze – side scrolling jumping game for TRS-80 Level II Basic
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