Nick D. Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Working on the Earth Science Data and Information Systems (ESDIS) project to ensure NASA's earth science data is available and usable to the community at large.

Washington, DC, US

• Working as a fullstack engineer on the TED team (Technology-Education-Data) team, as part of the education vertical. The education team works on gathering data and producing education-related products, such as Best.
• Developed in-house tool for updating tens of thousands of school contacts using React/Redux, reducing team involvement by 90%
• Worked on ETL pipelines for 4 different education products
• Lead engineer of Best Online Programs, Community Colleges
• Assist in architecting future of data management for Education dept
• Agile Kanban framework, daily scrum, weekly backlog grooming

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Performed consulting services to NGA to build and support big data analytical pipeline managing 100+ million data points
• Performed deep-dive on NGA software to maintain and develop new features
• Built Bayesian network analytic and integrated component into existing software for evidence based-analysis
• Assisted in architecting pipeline for communication of different parts of network probability model
• Mentored junior developers in core programming concepts and tools
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), 2 month program increments, bi-weekly sprints/backlog grooming/retrospectives, daily scrum

US

• Worked alongside data scientists to develop analytics to determine anomalies in network (IP) traffic
• Analytics involved machine-learning techniques including k-means clustering, k-nearest neighbor, z-score calculations
• Transforming analytics written in Python/R to Java/Scala running in Apache Spark/Hadoop, designed for analyzing big data sets (100bn+ rows, GB to PB range)
• Agile Kanban framework, weekly status meetings with clientAs of June 2016, Caerus Associates is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cybraics.

Falls Church, VA, US

• On-site lead for team of 5 software developers
• Development work focused on weather tool used to track flight patterns/METARs/TAFs for all branches of the armed forces
• Completed bug-fixes and developed new features in weather tool using ActionScript, Robotlegs
• Lead engineer for space weather product development - from raw data ingest to visual display
• Agile Scrum framework, bi-weekly A/B sprint plan with monthly demos to client - bi-weekly backlog grooming/retrospectives, daily scrum

Lincoln, NE, US

• Worked as an intern during the school year, then briefly full-time after graduating.
• Worked on the St. Baldrick's Foundation (SBF) team, which maintained the website for SBF.
• Work involved making small changes to their API (built in Ruby), including a new rewrite, as well as updates to the user facing systems using HTML, CSS and JS.