Jorge A. Arellano Cid
E-mail: jcid@dillo.org
E-mail: jcid@softhome.net

Objective State my professional skills to those interested in them.
Experience Dec. 1999 to present
The Dillo web browser project:

Project Maintainer

  • Founded, lead and maintained it since the start.
  • Coordinated all the development effort.
  • Worked with people from several different countries.
  • Designed the browser structure, abstraction layers and coding directives.
  • Designed a parallel Input/Output engine.
  • Designed a multithreaded DNS resolving scheme.
  • Created the "Concomitant Control Chain" theory, and based Dillo on it (the CCC is a new model for handling parallelism).
  • Designed the framework for extending Dillo with plugins (dpi).
  • Designed a quick and fast bug-track engine.
  • Quality assurance and patch integration.
  • Web site construction.
Full details can be found at the web site...
Other projects:
  • A text editor.
  • A spanish spell-checker.
  • An educational text adventure game.
Leadership Skills
  • Founded and lead the dillo project for three and a half years.
  • President of the Tennis branch at the UTFSM (two years).
Special Skills
  • Ability to work smoothly with unfamiliar people.
  • Some knowledge of Cognitive Psychology (Piaget), and Infusing thinking.
  • Almost pro level in tennis!
Technical Highlights C/C++, Unix, GTK+, HTML, HTTP, CGI, CVS, glibc, glib, gdk, gdb, threads, bash, python.
Publications SCCC 2000 event:
  • Paper and presentation at the international event (in english).
  • Paper and presentation for the workshop on parallelism (in english).
Others:
  • Article for LinuxDevices magazine (online here)
  • Dillo project's web site.
Languages
Spanish very good
English very good
Portuguese fair
Education Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile.
Informatics Civil Engineer.
Minor: Systems Theory.

Note: In Chile, the system is: 6 years + thesis + practical.
Thesis: How to provide dynamic information through Internet using CGI.
Current job I'm working at the European Southern Observatory (ESO; La Silla, Paranal). Unix area for the telescope servers (since Dec 2006).
Nationality Chilean.