User:Jonathan S. Shapiro

Jonathan S. Shapiro is a software developer and researcher who works on programming languages, operating systems, and related areas. His current work includes the Coyotos and BitC open source projects and some commercial work on static analysis. He is currently the Managing Director of The EROS Group, LLC, and holds a Research Assistant Professor appointment at Johns Hopkins University. Former research areas included configuration management tools such as OpenCM, debuggers, and incremental compilers. Dr. Shapiro is the author of A C++ Toolkit, which was the first book on reusable programming in C++.

Dr. Shapiro is also a recidivist entrepreneur. He was a founder at Hal Computer Systems, managed the spin-out of the Xanadu Operating Company (original home of Project Xanadu from Autodesk, Inc., and has been running a modestly successful start-up company for the last few years. His company is now applying a combination of programming language and operating system techniques to improve the safety and reliability of embedded systems.