John Chaney Email & Phone Number

Waltham, MA, US

Bartow, Florida, US

• Laid architecture and solely led development of a new, public-facing Bondsman Registry webapp
• Created a deployment pipeline to publish code updates to in-house test and production servers
• Migrated legacy.NET Framework 4, VB, and WCF code to a modern.NET (Core) 6 app that would be used as a template for all new development going forward
• Added 5+ features to an existing webapp, increased usability, and improved page loading performance by over 50%
• Diagnosed and troubleshooted a TCP/SSL protocol issue on the main server, patching a major security hole

• Built a fintech exchange platform from scratch with a small startup
• Responsible for shipping a comprehensive backend wrapper to consume 17 major exchanges’ API’s
• Optimized database call overhead by over 10x, to pull market data/orderbooks/assets from 14 exchanges each second
• Saved 100’s of manual work hours by writing a web scraping script to automate adding individual withdrawal addresses to Huobi

Charleston, WV, US

• Trained towards the Salesforce Developer I certification
• Collaborated with a development team to design Lightning Web Components with Javascript/Apex

Laurel, Maryland, US

• Performed full-stack development on a small Agile team for a custom in-house CRM system to be used company-wide (8 US offices)
• Rewrote React frontend from using inheritance to a compositional pattern, increasing maintainability and ensuring best practices
• Built 10+ custom React components, integrated data exchange with backend API, and performed unit testing
• Switched backend from a PHP base to ASP.NET Core in order to fit more closely with team’s experience

Santa Monica, CA, US

• Built a cryptocurrency trading bot in Python + Qt5: github.com/jdnixx/deribit-simple-gui
• Constructed a GUI with detailed data analysis-focused UX (e.g. dynamic gain/loss % calculation)
• Connects to Deribit (bitcoin derivatives exchange)’s REST API/Websockets for low latency and asynchronous messaging
• Wrote and tested proprietary trading algorithms, optimized for concurrency (threading/asyncio)
• Generated ~100% lifetime account profit (~2x original cumulative deposit amount)
• Created and deployed a custom ERC20 token contract on the Ethereum blockchain

Germantown, MD, US

• Assembled SDR/software-defined radios (the “DRTBox”) used by law enforcement
• Repaired warranty units; troubleshot failing circuit boards
• Performed hardware, software and environmental testing on units

Morgantown, West Virginia, US

• Worked under Dr. Xin Li, researching novel computer vision (anti-spoofing) algorithms, e.g. SIFT
• Specific research area: reliable and automatic detection of copy-paste forgery attacks in images
• Drafted a technical report comparing utility of all feature detection algos (SIFT, RIFT and SURF)
• Ported a legacy SIFT binary executable, built for Unix, to be Windows-compatible in MATLAB
• Wrote a script to batch-process folders of.jpg images and extract their keypoints

Plano, Texas, US

• Handled electronic part selection and ordering for company’s KVM switch product line
• Created circuit schematics in LTSpice; laid out PCBs with Eagle software
• Performed iterative testing of supply chain manufacturers’ products to check that they metin-house design requirements, and compiled documentation of results

St Louis, MO, US

Reston, Virginia, US

• Completed IR&D project for the Federal DoD ABIS (Automated Biometric Identification System)
• Researched biometric modalities; open-source commercial algorithms (Iris ID; John Daugman’sIrisCode) and evaluated for speed, robustness, and ease-of-use in military applications
• Helped the IT administrator maintain servers and ensure the integrity of the office LAN
• Obtained an Interim Secret security clearance

Hyattsville, Maryland, US

• Scan and bag customers’ groceries while finishing orders in a timely and efficient manner
• Converse with each person and inform them of store programs and offers, such as the Shell Gas Rewards program
• Responsible for upwards of over $9000 in revenue during an average 4.5-hour shift
• Sympathize with upset customers and show an eagerness to assist with their problems, while also standing firm on company policies
• Always provide quality customer service, assisting them to locate items, or answer questions about our products and services
• Be knowledgeable about procedures for WIC and check processing, produce codes, and other cashiering protocols, as well as important information about our company services and policies

Bachelor’S Degree, Biometric Systems & Electrical Engineering

Education record