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Bill Bereza

Co-founder

Update: Bill left Atomic Object in 2009 to follow his passion for law. While pursuing his law degree in 2010, Bill has taken the opportunity to study abroad in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. We continue to stay in touch with Bill and wish him the best in his new career path.
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:

  • iPhone application development. The first iPhone application I worked on is now available in the iTunes store.
  • 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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