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* Degen score: 630

Anchorage & Remote

Brooklyn NY

• Freelance with agile consultancy Stride NYC and work at NBC Universal on internal tools team responsible for splitting a monolithic application into microservices.
• Work with software agency HFC as lead developer to create mic.com/marriott-travel-quiz and as an Android developer on Brooklyn Museum port of their IOS app.
• Contract with creative agency Mayday.is as lead developer to rebuild nescafe.com.
• Technologies: Node.js, Angular.js, Android, Backbone.js, Tumblr API

New York City

• Increased new users by building web signup flow with ability to connect: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Swarm, and Dropbox
• Optimized a 20x speed increase to sharpen and create thumbnails for hundreds of millions of photos
• Grew engagement via an intricate email product with individualized metrics which a large percent of daily actives started using
• Transitioning front end from Rails to a new AngularJS stack as a separate service.
• Working as part of a distributed 8 person engineering team
• Technologies: Rails, Angular, Node.js, MongoDB, Heroku/AWS, TDD

Greater New York City Area

• Created an Android SDK for showing a custom interstitial ad in third party Android apps
• Wrote a framework for retrieving ad bids from advertiser networks and updating those bids on our ad server (AppNexus)
• Made ad layouts more responsive resulting in increased tablet CTR of ~2.5%.Technologies: Android, Ruby, Javascript

San Francisco, CA

• Ported IOS Birthdays+ application to Android
• Built from 0 to 37 million uniques as primary engineer of daily content Facebook apps. Same code powers 300+ different apps in 14 languages
• Refactored disjoint Facebook wallpost code to track generation and delivery metrics across all apps in a uniform way
• Developed code for queueing system which increased scalability and reliability of wallpost delivery
• Worked as part of a 5 person engineering team on front end, back end, dev opsTechnologies: Django, Javascript, FB APIs, AWS (EC2,S3,Dynamo), git

Sunnyvale, CA

• Localized core business, client ­facing billing and bidding web management platform for Japan
• Added features to advertising reports: date range options, export to CSV, sort by column.
• Implemented SEO targeted enhancements and layout tweaks across many domains.
• As part of ~50 person engineering department my focus was on front end work. Was selected to work onsite in Japan and Germany for localization effortsTechnologies: Java, Spring, XSLT, JSTL, Javascript (YUI, JQuery).

Des Moines, Iowa

• Create custom CMS applications for clients
• Create forms and reports for online purchasing, event registration, inventory management
• Slicing.PSDs into HTML/CSS templates
• Employee #3, focused on front end developmentTechnologies: Coldfusion, Javascript, MS­SQL, IIS, Sourcevault

Ames, IA

• Supported hardware and (non­commercial) software in mixed Linux and Windows environment
• Diagnosed compilation from source code issues and maintained shell scripted backups

Bachelor, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon Iowa State Computer Science Honor Society Semester abroad at Vrije Universiteit in.

Education record

Study abroad as exchange student.