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Oakland, California, US

> Lead development on Python / Django and Vue JavaScript LMS for massive online course, featuring integrated calendar, in-platform chat and video conferencing, curriculum access, quizzes, and more> Lead product management and development on server side rendered JAMStack courseware> Pre-recorded 75+ hrs of HD expert lectures on topics in software.

Oakland, California, US

> “Oakland Link” Workforce Development Program | Team Lead> Funded by the City of Oakland, and the Greenlining Institute, a racial justice research & advocacy 501c3> Oversaw creation of Python-based data dashboard to show impact to Town Link nonprofit partner> Developed program structure, assembled engineering mentorship system, and planned scholarship

Oakland, California, US

> Cofounded and grew start-up into a sustainable ~$250k/yr revenue small business> Hired 6 developers for learning software development and trainee mentorship> Lead development of LMS software, using Python / Django, Node.js, and Postgres SQL, to integrate event scheduling, attendance and performance tracking, admissions, and content management> Created CI.

Berkeley, CA, US

> Launching instructor at the UC-Berkeley Ext. Coding Bootcamp, quickly their most prolific program> Lead team of 2-4 TAs in a series of 6 month cohorts, delivering lectures to classrooms of 25 - 50+> As the first instructor, worked closely with Student Success and Career Services to supplement and improve pre-purchased Trilogy curriculum to enhance.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Developed the full stack of a Django and React based web dashboard for management building and utility data budgeting data. Designed and implemented a sophisticated and extremely versatile spreadsheet-like interface that allowed for precise editing and computation of energy budgeting along with a variety of predictive systems, to support a variety of.

Wrocław, Województwo Dolnośląskie, PL

Lead development and maintained a variety of sophisticated Django and node.js applications. This includes an advanced real time video debate platform built for a high profile client in education. Features include structured webcam video exchanges, realtime text chat, push / live refresh across entire platform, real-time competition and practice modes, and.

Wrote "Download Your Data" photo downloading feature, supporting threaded downloads using internally developed Tornado async framework. Added Git support to free software project Make Open Easy, a Facebook and Google joint project in Java to assist companies to release internal tools under free licenses. As a member of the open source team, worked on tools.

Redmond, Washington, US

As a member of MSDN team, designed and developed applications for the (at the time, unreleased) Windows Phone 7. Wrote applications to expose media content and coding news for Microsoft's newest entry into the mobile space. Utilized what was to become the "Metro" interface guidelines, using the MVVM paradigm.

Houston, Texas, US

Developed Python, Bash, and Perl utilities for internal tooling. Created git-hooks to adhere to uniquely strict requirements of audit trails. Designed and implemented company-wide migration strategies to switch to modern version control systems.

Madison, WI, US

Developer on the Condor High Throughput Computing research project. Designed a flexible, INI-like syntax for sophisticated default configuration systems, and implemented it using Perl and C++ to write a recursive descent parser. Worked on Perl-based website to house documentation and generate configuration help.

Verona, WI, US

Developed full-stack AJAX-based web applications for querying and browsing system data for hospital servers, using JavaScript and the proprietary backend language Cache ObjectScript. Wrote Perl-based Unix cronjobs for gathering system performance data and securely emailing them for analysis to our support teams.

Verona, WI, US

Designed intelligent algorithms for early detection of performance issues. Wrote statistical algorithms implementation using time-delta buckets in Perl and PHP. This was to identify performance issues in Epic Systems Healthcare IT system, based on data harvested in Unix servers and sent over via a secure Email system that I later developed in the next.

Web design freelancing and software customization for a variety of projects, from band pages to local gyms. Designed and customized sites based on Wordpress, OSCommerce, and a variety of other free software PHP content management systems. During this time developed my own flat-file based PHP CMS to use with my clients.