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New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

● Contract programmer for various companies.● Contract teacher for professional programmers; helping software engineers with their CS fundamentals.● Developed two formal semantics compiler prototypes based on previous Ph.D. work; one compiling from semantics meta-language to C using Go, another to F # .● Implemented probabilistic context-free grammar parser, returning space-efficient parse forests.● Worked on design and implementation of various video games.Prototyped website helping people explore the reasons supporting the beliefs they hold.● Creator of TheBetterMeta, an aggregate stats website and Discord bot for Hi-Rez’s game Paladins – Developed neural net to predict the outcome of matches, in real time, based on player skill. – Developed and optimized 2.5 bil. row database used to track player performance.

New York, New York, United States

Consulted about optimizing PostgreSQL database and queries. I helped them reduce their storage needs while improving speed.

New York, New York, United States

Designed, developed, and taught an introductory Python programming class to NYC high school students.

New York, New York, United States

Designed and implemented new matchmaking system to quickly group millions of game players of different skill levels into fair matches.

New York, New York, United States

● Developed algorithm and implemented system returning correlated interests to a user's interests. ● Developed pluggable system to easily evaluate AB testing for website● Designed and implemented new search system for making recommendations based on users' previous actions● Developed techniques to analyze and evaluate site health● Worked on bot/spam detection, analyzing both metadata and message content.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

● Led studio component of a programming studio course (CS242) for five semesters. Taught programming hygiene, structure, and engineering tradeoffs in small sessions.● TAed Software Engineering (CS427) for one semester● Named on university's "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent" three times and received departmental teaching award once.

California, United States

● Developed tools to optimize loading data and to discover relationships between data in multi-TB manufacturing databases.● Helped design and implement a horizontally scalable system for managing massive amounts of data; co-wrote and published paper about system (https://doi.org/10.1109/SNAPI.2007.16).● Received highest reviews last 3 years.

Winston Salem, Nc

● Helped out in math classes (set theory and combinatorics).● Outside of class, individually responsible for the safety and well-being of thirty students.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science

I focused on programming language semantics and semantic frameworks for defining programming languages. My dissertation included the first.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

My master's thesis showed how programming language semantics and definitions of their corresponding type systems can both be written.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science, 4.0 Gpa

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mathematics, 4.0 Gpa

Minor, Cognitive Science