John Kern Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, Us

AccuraGen develops a sensitive, accurate, scalable, and flexible next-generation sequencing-based cancer-mutation detection system. A skilled and motivated developer who enhances and deploys our bioinformatics pipeline.Ported secondary analysis pipeline to AWS. Process data received from the sequencer. Tools: Python, SGE, AWS, Boto, Ansible.Wrote web apps in support of secondary analysis pipeline and LIMS. Tools: Python, Django, JavaScript, MySQL.

Contributor to bcbio-nextgen ( https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbio-nextgen ), “python toolkit providing best-practice pipelines for fully automated high throughput sequencing analysis”. Main tools: Python, AWS, Ansible, Elasticluster. Built a web application dedicated to help people find jobs.Tools: Python, Django, PostgreSQL,South for schema migration and hosted via heroku. Contributed to the edX ( http://code.edx.org/ ), a next-generation learning platfrom. Wrote documentation for developers using Discern, a web service which grades student essays using machine learning. Fixed a refresh bug in the frontend UI. Main tools: Python, Django, Javascript, etc.Investigated how advances in educational software may impact post secondary educational institutions. Used data from the US department to Education to map all registered educational institutions via Google Maps. Tools: Java, Spring, Spring Data, Mongo, Google Geocoding API, Google Maps API, Javascript, jQuery.In collaboration with Street Smart Brazil, I developed a Portuguese Flashcard app for Android (http://lnkd.in/SJAg4a). I ported this app to the web with Java Spring and deployed via Cloud Foundry.Wrote a Symbian based client in C++, Qt and QML for near2there, a location based reminder service.

London, Gb

Solving developers’ technical problems quickly, educating the community on technical issues, and championing the current needs of the developer community within the Symbian Foundation.Helping the developer community to come up to speed on new technologies via presentations, demos and documentation. This year the focus has been on Qt. Routinely collaborated with the Tools Group. Established nightly builds for Eclipse based IDE with Hudson. Provided technical project management for QEMU at a critical time.

Taking a short sabbatical to learn everything I can about GIS. Studying at SFSU and UCB. Exploring how to apply GIS and related technologies to facilitate the adoption of renewable energy and the associated infrastructure.

Wrote an IVR using Dialogic's Switch Kit library. It allows users to record their voice. Integration with the company's web assets allows Razz to add user generated content to their web experience. A Web API provided access to this functionality to third parties. Wrote a seperate server called Harbinger monitored the IVRs and provided an on-demand status report.Took over development of the Symbian application. Established a light weight software development process. Enhanced it. Ported it to S60 3rd edition. Developed a mechanism to customize it for branding and localization.Built a wrapper around WURFL to allow the website to recognize and adapt to phones. Wrote a comment engine for Facebook. Did initial due diligence on Open Social.

Software Developer writing programs for Symbian OS. Helping companies to exploit opportunities identified by their business development group. Do you have a strong server side story and an idea to extend it to the handset? I can build the client. Do you have existing PDA applications which you'd like to port to Symbian? I can get you there. Presenter on technical topics to professional organizations and started a Symbian programming SIG (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SVS_SIG/) in Silicon Valley.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Member of the CATS development team responsible for porting and file I/O subsystem.

Ported products between Windows NT and various UNIX platforms (i.e., Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX). C/C++ issues included: Shared Libraries, 64-bit architectures, IEEE floating point and Large File Support.Established nightly builds for all products. Wrote a common UNIX installer for all products. Established a startup contract between the startup script and the applications. Eliminated a lag of about 3 months between Solaris and the Windows NT releases. Established and promoted best practices with respect to porting, integration and process.Rewrote make system to simplify and add flexibility to it. Migrated source base from Source Safe to CVS. Taught short course on CVS and the make system.Developed a web based change management system. This allowed one to systematically define what to extract from CVS and then build on all desired platforms at once. Jobs were distributed via either LSF or Unix rsh(1).

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

On the core development team for Java WorkShop. It was a integrated development environment for Java written in Java.

Netanya, Il

Quality Assurance for Common LISP. Developed and executed test plans. Sole responsibility for determining product readiness for release.

Certificate, Gis

Non-Matriculating Workshops, Gis, Gps And Remote Sensing

Bs, Ms, Computer Science