My name is Muhammad Muquit. I'm originally from Bangladesh and I work as a Senior Software Engineer at British Telecommunications plc (BT).

Before that I was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Alcatel-Lucent. It was the most techincally challenged and wonderful ten years in my entire career.

Before joining Lucent, I worked as a senior programmer/analyst with Research Computing Services Department of the Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC) in Philadelphia. In my wonderful four years in FCCC, I wrote lots of lots of cool software and above all made some cool friends!

And before that, I was one of the programmers of the Software Development Group of SEMCOR Inc. (It's part of some big defense contractor now) at Warminster Engineering Center located at Warminster, PA. At SEMCOR, I got the opportunity to develop lots of cool software (I think). I also made some great friends.

I hold a BS in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh and an MS in Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro. MS Thesis: "Generating Alternatives for Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Systems". Shoou-Yuh Chang and Muhammad A Muquit. Journal of Nuclear Materials Management. Volume XXIV, Number I, Fall 1995. It was about mathematical modeling to generate alternatives for Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Systems using Bounded Implicit Enumeration (BIE) Technique.

I love to design and develop software. Areas of expertise: Crypto stuff (I love to design/implement crypto software and study crypto algorithms but I'm not a cryptographer) ASN.1 (in binary protocol design and implementation), TCP/IP client-server protocol design and implementation, digital image (2D) processing and visualization, Graphical User Interface in X/ Motif, Win32, fltk and Qt. (Well I dumped Motif in favor of Qt) Relational databases, LDAP architecture, integration and development, general Unix host and network security, and of course the World Wide Web My main languages (to get things done) are C, Perl and Java. I'm not one of those guys who thinks only one language can solve everything. I absolutely love programming in Ruby, I hardly touch Perl now a days (update: Nov-24-2010 ) I play seriously with C++ (for fltk, Qt, and KDE - Qt is my personal favorite). I never liked programming in Tcl but use tkdiff all the time. I did not become a fan of Python because of it's syntax, I understand the philosophy behind it however.

Most of my time passes writing software (I use vim text editor in ANSI xterm). Mozilla Firefox is my web browser and mutt and Open Webmail are my mail readers. I don't know how people can live without Mouse Gestures. My favorite FireFox extensions are (not in any particular order): Google Notebook FlashBlock. In Windows I use cygwin and cygwin XFree86 (to use KDE 3.x from a remote Linux box). I decided to run X in Windows and access Linux from it, because this way I can develop software for both systems without pain. If I use Linux as my main desktop, I end up only using Linux. I use samba to access Unix filesystem from Windows and vice versa. Even in Windows I write Windows software with cygwin vim running in ANSI xterm. To create beautiful documents I use GNU Troff (groff). (I use mm macros). Wow! you reached that far!! Thank you.

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