Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Developer Partner Manager for Open Source at Equinix. Equinix acquired Packet in 2020…

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Experience

  • Equinix Graphic

    Equinix

    Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

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    Ann Arbor, MI

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    Ann Arbor, Michigan

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    Ann Arbor, MI

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    Ann Arbor, MI

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    Ann Arbor, MI

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    Ann Arbor, MI

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    Ann Arbor, MI

Education

  • University of Michigan Graphic

    University of Michigan

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    Activities and Societies: University of Michigan Men's Glee Club, Student Conferencing Project, Slater Scholar, Branstrom Book Prize Award, James B. Angell Scholar, Inter-Cooperative Council, College Bowl

    It took six years to get a four year degree, and I had a year's head start. I paid my own way with scholarships and by working at the Computing Center.

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    I took mathematics classes (3 semesters of calculus and linear algebra) while I was in high school, and had 2 credits of Latin over a summer.

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    Activities and Societies: High School Bowl, Redman Chorale, Michigan Math Prize Competition

    While in high school I competed at the state and national level in mathematics and at the state level in a televised quiz program, "High School Bowl". The musical ensemble I was part of, the "Redman Chorale", won multiple state-wide awards.

Licenses & Certifications

Publications

  • Perils and pitfalls of practical Internet commerce: the lessons of First Virtual's first year

    Readings in electronic commerce

    Unlike many would-be players in the field of Internet commerce, First Virtual (tm)1 chose to announce its payment system only after it was fully operational, and to operate it initially with relatively little publicity hype, while learning from the experience of its use. In its first year of operation, it has experienced exponential growth, and the company has gained substantial experience with and insight into the nature of Internet Commerce. In this paper, the First Virtual team discusses the…

    Unlike many would-be players in the field of Internet commerce, First Virtual (tm)1 chose to announce its payment system only after it was fully operational, and to operate it initially with relatively little publicity hype, while learning from the experience of its use. In its first year of operation, it has experienced exponential growth, and the company has gained substantial experience with and insight into the nature of Internet Commerce. In this paper, the First Virtual team discusses the lessons we have learned from a year’s experience with the actual operation of an Internet commerce system, and the prospects for the future.

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Courses

  • Computers and Linguistics (with John Lawler)

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  • Independent Study, Idea Processors (with Bill Doster and Karl Zinn)

    BAD:IDEA

  • Independent Study, Software Distribution Networks (with Hal Varian)

    PC1:!CONF

  • User Interface Design and Analysis (with David Kieras)

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Projects

  • Online Career Center

    MSEN designed and implemented a jobs database for the Online Career Center, a non-profit association of employers led by Bill Warren.

    We used the then-current Gopher protocol with custom full-text search software to build a database of over 8000 open positions, providing a friendly and quick way to search for jobs on the newly commercializing Internet.

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  • Incident response for the Morris Internet Worm

    In November 1988, a fast-moving computer worm infected computing systems connected to the Internet around the globe. I was part of a team that did incident response at the University of Michigan and was on operations duty monitoring the campus electronic mail system when the worm hit.

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Honors & Awards

  • Rockstar programmer

    Dylan Beattie

    Rockstar is a dynamically-typed Turing-complete programming language.

    Rockstar is designed for creating computer programs that are also song lyrics, and is heavily influenced by the lyrical conventions of 1980s hard rock and power ballads.

    I am a Rockstar programmer, per the language inventor, Dylan Beattie.

    https://twitter.com/dylanbeattie/status/1020992485663956993

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • German

    Limited working proficiency

  • Latin

    Elementary proficiency

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