# Aaron Swartz

349 Marshman  
Highland Park, IL 60035  
<me@aaronsw.com> / <http://www.aaronsw.com/>

## Professional Employment

### The Internet Archive

Tech Lead, pharos group  
February 2007 - present

Leading a team of six to develop a new web-based application and underlying database infrastructure.

### Wired Digital

Senior Programmer, reddit.com  
November 2006 - January 2007

Maintained and helped integrate reddit.com offerings into other Wired projects after reddit's acquisition.

### reddit

Founder and Programmer  
June 2005 - November 2006

Created, promoted, and supported a popular website whose traffic doubled four times over the final year, eventually reaching millions of unique visitors a month.

### Creative Commons

Metadata Advisor  
January 2002 - ongoing

## Education

### Stanford University

Undergraduate, sociology  
August 2004 - June 2005

## Additional Work

2001: RDF Core Working Group, member  
2001: DCMI Architecture Working Group, member  
2001: Semantic Web Agreement Group, founder  
2000: RSS 1.0 Working Group, member and spec co-author

## Free Software Projects

2006: web.py  
2004: Markdown  
2004: rss2email
2003: xmltramp  
2003: html2text  

## Honors and Awards

2006: Time Magazine's Person of the Year  
2005: Technorati Developers Contest  
2001: Apple WWDC Student Scholarship  
2000: ArsDigita Prize

## Publications

Aaron Swartz, "MusicBrainz: A Semantic Web Service", IEEE Intelligent Systems, Jan/Feb 2002, pp. 76-77. (PDF, old HTML)

Swartz, A. and Hendler, J. "The Semantic Web: A Network of Content for the Digital City", Proceedings Second Annual Digital Cities Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, October, 2001. (HTML, based on The Semantic Web in Breadth)

Lerone D. Wilson, Aarvark'd: 12 Weeks With Geeks (Boondoggle Films, 2005) [screenshot]

Tara Calishan & Rael Dornfest, Google Hacks (O'Reilly, 2ed, 2004)

Joel Spolsky (ed.), The Best Software Writing I (Apress, 2005) (working title: //comment)