Develop back-end, front-end, and embedded systems.

Develop embedded and back-end software for battery-powered devices to be deployed at sea. Interface with various sensors, cellular and satellite modems.

Developed firmware and back-end software for several IoT projects such as indoor air quality monitoring and a smart water heater device. We Initially used LoRa for communication and then NB-IoT when it was launched in Norway. For firmware we first used Apache MyNewt and then Zephyr RTOS. In the back-end we used the Go programming language running on AWS. For hardware we mostly used boards from Nordic Semiconductors (the nRF52 and nRF91), also some Arduino and Raspberry Pi. The team built a self service platform component with easy to use UI and APIs to manage and communicate with IoT devices.

Built an analytics system for whereby.com videoconferencing (back when they were known as appear.in). This system collected WebRTC browser statistics such as data rates, latency, jitter, and audio/video codecs, sent them to a back end server to be stored in a SQL database, and presented them in a React UI. Developers would use the results to address user feedback and improve their system.

Developed Flux (https://github.com/gordonklaus/flux), an experimental structured graphical environment for writing Go programs, including • an OpenGL GUI for editing types represented as tree structures and functions represented as data-flow graphs overlaid upon control-flow trees; • automatic visual lay-out of said data-flow graphs using a force-directed model, parallellized recursively over the control-flow tree; • generation of Go code from the Flux representation, and translation of a subset of Go code into the Flux representation; • support for nearly all features of the Go programming language.

Researched evolutionary robotics. Programmed large scale distributed simulations of robot locomotion. Developed methods for tuning physics simulators to more closely approximate reality. Published results. Helped teach courses in machine learning and biologically-inspired optimization.

I came to Microsoft via its acquisition of aQuantive.

Modified and extended legacy C/C++ back-end ad-serving services running on Windows. Wrote acceptance tests in C# .NET using the NUnit framework. Set up and maintained an automated build & test system. Worked on a team of ten developers using the methodologies of Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development, and Scrum.

Wrote C# .NET applications to automate the building, installing, and testing of applications within the company, to aid in their Continuous Integration. Worked on a team of 4 developers using the methodologies of Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development, and Scrum.

Developed a health care software system throughout multiple development cycles. Focused on data synchronization issues of a distributed relational database management system.Additional projects included: • Making the application skinnable - that is, allowing end users to customize GUI forms by maintaining XML customization files and supplying custom images; • Testing and debugging an open-source replacement to the previous, proprietary toolbar control; • Designing and developing an authentication protocol for initiating communications between two instances of the same application running on different computers on a Citrix network; • Testing the integration of a speech recognition engine into the software.