Roberto Soto Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, CA, US

Back-end development primarily in Node.js and TypeScript for the DNAnexus cloud platform- Contribution to fault-tolerant distributed system capable of managing >10k EC2 instances- Use of AWS services and APIs (EC2, SQS, RDS)- Development of multi-container Docker services- Experience with microservice architecture- Experience working remote

Cambridge, MA, US

- Helped organize fully student-run class held during MIT’s one-month Independent Activities Period.- Helped design, test, and grade problem sets.- Assisted students in office hours.

Mountain View, CA, US

Back-end development in Node.js and Python for the DNAnexus cloud platform.- Enabled distributed collection and computation of real-time statistics across arbitrary numbers of cloud instances.- Enabled transfer of sensitive information (e.g. billing information) between accounts for user-developed apps running on the platform while maintaining internal.

- Served as a technical mentor / consultant to project teams for programming related topics. - Served as a technical mentor and teacher during programming workshops.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Google Glass Development.- Developed a blink-detection algorithm for use on Glass devices.- Contributed to redesign and refactoring of Brain Power app suite to launch from a menu-like entry point.

Cambridge, MA, US

- Helped organize fully student-run class held during MIT’s one-month Independent Activities Period.- Designed and graded problem sets.- Assisted students in office hours.

Bedford, Massachusetts, US

Worked on a cloud-based robot management system for iRobot’s telepresence robots, primarily in Java and also in JavaScript and Python. Expanded functionality, fixed bugs, and developed testingframeworks.- Expanded functionality of robot "simulator", used for testing, to enable support of iRobot’s nextgeneration of telepresence robots while maintaining.

- Developed a prototype web app to allow teachers to easily share and piece together material from various sources in order to tailor documents (worksheets, lessons, etc.) to the needs of their classroom.

Cambridge, MA, US

- Developed a Meteor web app to allow professors to instantly launch questions to students’ computers and see an immediate, responsive visualization of students’ answer distribution. Now used during lectures in multiple classes of over 100 students.- Built a prototype Chrome extension to overlay learning exercises (e.g. flashcards, fill-in-the-blanks.