SKILLS:

• Python
• TypeScript
• Linux
• AWS
• SQL (MySQL)
• REST microservices
• Test-driven development (TDD)
• Mentoring
• C++

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Senior Developer | Deliverr/Shopify | May 2022 - May 2023
  • Business: helping merchants move stock to customers
  • Role: backend engineer on the crossdock team.
  • Techs: TypeScript, MySQL, AWS, Metabase/Snowflake
  • Some projects: design of integration with external API; design of scheduling measurement taking to better judge accuracy of our product information; design and implemention of allocation for branded products; new defect codes in database reports; endpoints and errors for better reliability of our in-warehouse audits.
  • Reason for leaving: Shopify bought Deliverr, Shopify sold Deliverr 10 months later with a 20% layoff.
• Senior Software Engineer | Yepchat | Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
  • Business: providing automated phone menus for restaurants.
  • Second engineer hired, in a back-end role. AWS Lambda serverless environment.
  • Techs: Python, MySQL, Twilio.
  • Various cost-saving projects, improving automation and integration of company processes, e.g. Google TTS, email processing, client scheduling, phone number search.
  • Reason for leaving: mass layoff due to financial constraints.
• Software Engineer | Kinnami Software Corporation | March 2017 - February 2020
  • Business: providing trusted timestamping at a large scale.
  • Roles included Dev, QA, Sysadmin, and Ops, in a 3-person startup.
  • Back-end Python development, on Linux; MySQL; wsgi REST microservices and standalone programs; Amazon EC2 and S3.
    • Had main responsibility for 20-30K lines of Python code.
    • Introduced pervasive logging.
    • Developed new REST services and APIs as needed.
    • Researched and implemented publication via Solidity contract to the Ethereum blockchain.
  • Testing and QA of all code; volunteer proofreading of website text.
  • Deployment and monitoring on AWS. System administration of development and production Linux machines.
    • Wrote automation shell scripts for cluster tasks: machine maintenance, code deployment, code monitoring.
  • Assisted other developers with dev tools such as Linux, vim, shell, and git, including mentoring an intern.
  • Some exploration of marketing via Google Adwords.
  • Reason for leaving: total layoff due to financial constraints.
• N/A | Tutor | February 2011 - March 2017
  • Part-time tutoring in math and programming.
  • C consulting for an early startup, reviewing robotics code for quality.
• Indiana University Bloomington | Teaching Assistant | August 2002 - June 2010
  • TAed classes in assembly language and computer architecture, where the students programmed turtle robots.
  • Private math tutoring.
• Mindstalk Consulting | Software Engineer | September 2001 - August 2002
  • Self-employed software contracting, Java and C++.
• Cogit Corporation | Software Engineer | July 1998 - September 2001
  • Reverse engineered an undocumented suite of Perl/CGI scripts acting as an internal GUI.
  • Debugged and enhanced components of the company C++ machine learning programs.
  • Acted as a 'fireman' solving other people's urgent problems.
  • Wrote a networked service dispatcher in C++ with dynamically loaded plug-in modules, which was the middle tier of the company's three-tiered web services product, and designed the interfaces and configuration for the dispatcher and modules.
  • Participated in intermittent pair programming and peer review, trained junior developers, helped supervise the automated build and test system, and helped guide the company Unix sysadmin.
  • Advocated for peer review and open source tools.
• Caltech Seismo Lab | Software Engineer | June 1993 - June 1998
  • Various summer and part-time jobs, condensed:
  • Data wrangling and processing
  • AVS animation of the Northridge Earthquake, used for public information.
  • Created oraphics for the "Earthquakes in Southern Calfornia" page
  • Webmastering, and running early forum software
  • (separate job) Using Visual C++ to capture and display movement data from a body suit.
• Corboy and Demetrio | Database Manager | June 1992 - September 1992
  Learned and wrote queries for a law firm's database.
• Loyola University of Chicago| Teaching Assistant| June 1991 - August 1991
  • Advanced Placement Computer Science (in Pascal) Teaching Assistant.

FORMAL EDUCATION:

• Master of Science in Computer Science | Indiana University Bloomington | 2010
  • Part of a comp sci/cognitive science PhD program from 2002 to 2010, studying models of analogy making under Douglas Hofstadter.
  • Some of my graduate school courses: computer theory (automata, computability, complexity); analysis of algorithms; computer graphics; operating systems; scientific computing; Bayesian analysis; group theory visualization; quantum computing; mind and evolution; fundamentals of computer languages; agent-based simulation; concepts and categories.
• Bachelor of Science in Planetary Science | California Institute of Technology | 1997

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