Running a bootstrapped SaaS company on the Shopify platform

Getting an inside look into an early stage hardware startup

- Used Django and SQL to model hardcoded customer data and place it into the database.- Used Clojure to build a backend for ingesting content from various sources: RSS, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram and others.- Developed a throttling system to maximize throughput while staying under third-party rate limits.- Developed a pipeline for transforming and feeding content to the company's browser-based application.

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- Hired by founders as first programmer to turn a prototype into a minimum viable product- Constructed a Cordova-based build system targeting web, iOS and Android- Integrated many native app features such as push notification and local file access

- Used Python and JavaScript to work on a Django-backend, Backbone-frontend web application.Implemented internal REST APIs using a Django-based library as well a library of own making, Cosmic.- Developed a highly space-efficient module for tracking email links.- Organizational work: automated deployment, centralized configuration management, containerization with Docker.

Used JavaScript, jQuery and PHP to help build a highly dynamic news aggregation website.

- Used supervised machine learning to build a system for normalizing data from radiology results.- Researched and implemented solutions from academic papers.- Used Java, MongoDB NoSQL database and Neo4J graph database. Worked with medical ontologies.