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Palo Alto, CA, US

Working in the Storage and Availability group.

Bellevue, WA, US

I help improve Riak, a highly scalable NoSQL distributed database. The work requires knowledge of distributed systems theory, database internals, networking, low level concurrency and performance optimization. We use a combination of Erlang and C/C++. I have helped in a number of areas:- Testing infrastructure.- Core key/value engine, especially startup.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Worked in the Contacts team maintaining a Java web service with a Django/Python/Backbone frontend, and the analytics pipeline behind it running on Hadoop, Hive and HBase.

Worked on a video game for children inspired by my daughter’s favorite game and character designs using Unity3D and Blender. Made a mobile optimized 4-inline multi-player game using HTML5, WebSockets, jQueryMobile and Erlang in the back end. Worked on a video game commissioned by the Department of Transportation in Puerto Rico.

Boston, MA, US

Helped maintain and improve one of the largest Lucene deployments in the world. Crimson Hexagon has stored more than 100 billion social media posts from a variety of sources (Twitter, facebook, Internet forums, etc). The work involved improvements to the web application used by customers to analyze the vast data set and extract meaning from it, and also.

I was the software monkey for a group of MIT materials scientists. Streamlined and automated data processing in their HPC cluster. Implemented and optimized material properties computation algorithms to run incrementally, concurrently and efficiently. Improved performance of the Postgresql database by up to 2 orders of magnitude. Built automated daily.

Boston, MA, US

Helping out my old employer with some challenging data processing projects for big customers (Echostar and EBay), tuning a 40h data crunching process to run in under 5h. This was a temporary, part-time position working remotely.

Studied game development, modern graphics programming, game AI, 3D modeling and audio programming. I worked on my own open source Ogre3D C++ based game project http://hunter.sf.net and contributed to the indie game Aztaka.

Boston, MA, US

As one of the first developers to join the company, I worked on many projects and demos involving complex and ever-changing customized recommendation algorithms for big name customers on extremely tight schedules. Our architecture included a core C++ multi-threaded recommendation engine back end, Java web applications and offline user data processing. I.

Arlington, VA, US

Worked on the display component of the STARS Air Traffic Control system fixing bugs and implementing the main toolbar UI. Coding was done in C, X11 and Motif. Also worked creating Java Swing based screens for a Navy terminal project.