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Eugene, Or, Us

I build cool stuff -> https://engine.arcology.garden https://cce.whatthefuck.computer https://arcology.garden

Eugene

Bookkeeping and reporting to the board for a small non-profit spiritual organization

Developed a novel web protocol for exchanging legal data rights requests between agent applications like Consumer Reports Permission Slip and Incogni, and businesses with user data and companies like OneTrust which they contract data rights services to.Consulted with developers at these companies to develop a web request standard and data schemas to encode data rights requests so that agent applications could seamlessly submit data rights requests on behalf of their users.Developed a suite of automated testing applications and an open source reference implementation of the protocol in an open source collaboration with other engineers in the Consumer Reports Innovation Lab.Present this work at USENIX PEPR 2023

Greater Seattle Area

Privacy Engineer, focused on user data portability and GDPR compliance.- Development of "Download your Data" backend tool which collates user data through Hadoop data warehouse and direct RPC integrations with services that are not warehousing their data.- Directly worked with Privacy Legal team to define and scope data sets for GDPR compliance, identify data sets to be deleted or anonymized and drove this to completion.- Privacy Impact Assessment and consultation with engineering teams within Uber.

San Francisco Bay Area

Previously a reliability Engineer embedded on the Payments teams.- Architecture and implementation of PCI DSS 3.0 secure storage environment built on top of Amazon Web Services, using standard open source tooling, Terraform, Ansible, Packer. Met with internal and external PCI QSAs weekly during planning and implementation phases to ensure compliance and security posture of sensitive data.- Responsible for defining SLAs for services, and working with engineering teams on defining projects to increase reliability of their services towards the goal of meeting these SLAs.- Biweekly eng-wide training sessions for oncall tooling and best-practices to ensure developers are ready to support their services- Worked with payments engineering team to improve reliability of integrations between Uber and 3rd-party payment service providers through custom monitoring solutions, architectural input, and training

San Francisco Bay Area

Previously, I was System Operations for the Realtime Infrastructure team; the team was responsible for upkeep and development of systems used to power the core trip experience in the Uber app. - Responsible for On Call best practices and training for over 100 engineers on the Realtime Infrastructure team, including alerting, incident response and metrics-driven engineering approaches. - Responsible for front-line provisioning of four datacenter's hardware as well as service standup for the core trip services in those four datacenters- Outage investigation, mitigation and resolution, including log and data analysis- Developed unique datacenter failover strategy, allowing for push-button datacenter failover with no user-facing degredation, and no data loss on a dateset with a rate of change nearing 200MB/sec

Worked to package and release software in a timely fashion to meet 6 month release schedules. Helped to promote both the KDE desktop and the Fedora project as a whole by working on the Fedora Weekly News writing the KDE beat, working to improve upon the KDE Desktop Edition of Fedora, among other duties. Engaged in activities of promoting Fedora desktop through ambassador program and marketing team. Co-lead project to develop an application to give new users an introduction to Fedora desktop, software and the Fedora community.I am currently not involved in the Fedora Project directly.

As organisation administrator, I manage Fedora's mentors and students and act as liason between Google and the Fedora Project.

San Francisco Bay Area

At Storehouse I acted as backend engineer, designing and implementing early versions of the client API as well as architecting a scalable, continuously delivered stack built on top of Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL 9.3, ElasticSearch, Ansible and AWS. We built a fault-tolerant application which performed tremendously while surviving datacenter downtimes and network partitions. I ensured customers always had access to the best possible versions of Storehouse, managing a deploy pipeline that ensured near-daily deployment to production using a robust deployment model handled by Ansible and Jenkins.* Designed and implemented JSON Client API consumed by iOS client using Ruby on Rails 4 and scaled it to handle traffic of a wildly successful iOS app launch* Created a deployment pipeline built around Ansible, Jenkins and EC2's AutoScaling Groups* Forged company culture at a new startup* Storehouse won an Apple Design Award in 2014 thanks to the work of the entire team.

Oakland, Ca

As part of the team launching MadeSolid, I've built a full stack web-frontend application allowing people to upload preview and purchase models through our services. We are also leading design on a custom messaging bus which our printers, web front ends and support softwares which will communicate on to allow for seamless integration of disparate technologies and application stacks.While building this platform, we are also building and sourcing parts for low-cost and easy to assemble 3D printers which power our infrastructure, and tuning and customizing the existing machines. As such, I have an intimate knowledge of tuning and operating 3D printers at a large scale.

Mesa, Arizona

Managed day to day operations of Non-profit hackerspace, including but not limited to:* IT* Visitor Tours* Devops* CleaningInvolved in various projects including 3D printing using industry standard tools and software, as well as microcontroller development using MSP430 and Arduino.

Mesa Az

Just your average Ruby on Rails developer, with a bit of hardware hackery, mobile development and community building thrown in.

Worked with fellow college level project members to implement a custom version of the Fedora Linux operating system targeting Netbook devices. As mentor, I was responsible for making sure my students were succesful in their project by encouraging communication and transparency.Google: Summer of Code

Worked to further Free software in the Phoenix Area by promoting a Free software conference. Worked to coordinate releases of press information, coordinated presentation schedule, worked to attract 'big names' in the Free Software world to present. Worked to promote the conference through word of mouth, social networks, email, clothing and mailing lists, while also presenting twice at the event..

Worked in integrating new Microsoft .NET technologies into existing systems, provided testing and bug fix support and generated administration and maintenance screens for products.