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Austin, Texas, Us

Built and QAed a streaming live baseball bet proposal importer from the ground up using Kafka, Postgres and Django.Architected the database, kafka live streaming, importing of bet proposals in our legacy system and syncing team and event information daily.Created a mass storage system to save all data for resolution in case something goes wrong with a live money bet.Built monitoring solutions that report if bet proposals are not being imported.Teaching developers unfamiliar with legacy code how to work in this kind of environment.Advising on approaches to write clean code to improve developer cadence.

Boston, Ma, Us

Scoping a system design based on requirements given and building a KYC (know your customer) compliant digital banking system with anti-money laundering technology from the ground up.Collaborating closely with banking, KYC (Know your customer) and geolocation (user tracking) vendors on a regular basis.Working on a distributed microservices architecture with a team. Every feature requires a buy-in process including a proposal so everyone is on board.Reviewing other engineer's github pull requests and providing helpful feedback to grow the team.Creating accurate time estimates for project needs and meeting those demands.Wearing multiple hats including as a QA engineer. This involves testing for stability and any potential bugs, as well as any edge cases not mentioned in the requirements but expected to work by end-users.Working directly with internal traders to develop market making strategies such as IPO shorting, increasing the number of shares users can buy and elevating revenue. This involves creating deliberate, thought through, aircraft-grade software that must work efficiently the first time in production because this software is built on market making exchanges, similar to a stock exchange. Precision is the utmost importance.Close collaboration and quick prototyping of ideas such as ETL scripts to gather sports statistics to build pricing models.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

Report directly to the C-Suite executivesBuilds ground up architecture and restructures existing codebase into a high performance professional systemCore contributor to managing full software development cycles Overseeing junior software engineers and assisting with problem solving when neededDesigned, developed and implemented a real-time alert system to track changes to court casesCreated a high security-tolerant rule based firewall to secure IP and allow SEOBuilt an API to aggregate cases from thousands of court sites into one placeImplemented and architected payment handling including subscription flow, upgrades, pausing, credits, billing, receipts and account mgmtScaled response times on search pages to Google down from 2-3 seconds to 500 ms

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Provided vision and technical leadership to the team in order to build a BI dashboard that gives food manufacturers data driven assurances that their food is meeting FDA standardsMade 10X speed improvements by porting javascript code into SQLAccelerated existing query runtime 500 fold on 7.8 million data pointsCreated an ETL pipeline with a dashboard for food manufacturers to upload test results and see their results in real-timeDemonstrated and taught best practices in software craftsmanship to junior engineers to promote long term maintainability of technical debt in the codebaseAssumed DBA responsibilities with full production access to real world dataMost active contributor by Github metrics

Chicago, Il, Us

Built a learning management system from scratch to bring financial professionals up to date with the regulations in the banking industryArchitected and built educational web portal frontend for teachers to create courses and grade students by writing angular code to interface with APIsCreated interface to load SCORM based educational content and execute it within the browserDevised a tree-based course navigation system and created search capabilities allowing management of courses consisting of thousands of lessons and sub-lessonsCreated a secure authentication system and user admin interface that scales to organizations with hundreds of thousands of usersBuilt pixel-perfect pages using best practices in CSS/HTML code organization

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Founded the company and grew it to a profitable peak revenue of 300k/yearCreated a software company that transformed the desired specifications from a customer into an MVP within two weeks to one month on averageBuilt Wordpress, Django, Moodle, Android, iOS apps for up to 5 different clients simultaneously per monthHired 10 employees, provided healthcare and managed personnel while still actively coding on a day to day basisOpened a physical retail storefront in Chicago for selling websites to as a marketing experiment to drive salesAnalyzed software Unicorn IPO prices over time to unveil market trends in our customer base and predict downturnsThe company still exists and has narrowed focus to Wordpress sites

Built a data warehouse to track marketing leads, inbound customer phone calls, trades, user signups and mobile app downloads in real-time for FINRA and C-Level reporting, enabling better insight into the sales funnel and future revenue growthSupported and maintained batch systems for processing trades, margin calls, accounting rules, stock and option downloads, symbols and news reports across multiple development environments by providing 24/7 on call support to developers and maintaining software knowledge of the entire systemScripted a Clojure mail listener to ease maintenance burden and restart UC4 jobs remotely via emailReverse engineered stock quote apis and built a simple trading machine to provide alerts for when the system goes downHelped stop money laundering by reporting hacked accounts and ip addresses to FINRA

Chicago, Il, Us

I studied Computer Science with a concentration in Software Engineering.I built a program which scraped every single game review from Gamespot (2 million pages). It was a distributed Clojure web scraper with a MySQL backend that ran across my colleague's computers and the University network.I created Djangology which increases the speed at which NLP researchers can annotate text. I also published a paper about it in the LREC journal.http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/summaries/543.html

Chicago, Il, Us

Learned and used Clojure to re-scrape all of Gamespot's updated contentUsed functional programming techniques to minimize amount of code writtenBuilt a distributed system to reduce the time required to scrape millions of Gamespot pages.

Chicago, Il, Us

Research Assistant to Associate Professor Noriko TomuroBuilt a system in Python to annotate game titles, characters, game concepts etc. in Gamespot reviewsBuilt a plugin for Djangology to import and export annotations in a special IOB formatBuilt a Java system to extract Biomedical annotations from MetaMap as accurately as possible

Chicago, Il, Us

Research Assistant to Ph. D. Student Emilia ApostolovaHelped build an open source Django annotator and annotation comparison tool called DjangologyLearned techniques for testing and collaborating with other programmers over the InternetSoftware published in a paper to LREC 2010 conference in Malta

Founded an organization dedicated to the study of computer scienceGrew organization from two to 30 members in one yearProvided a place for academic thought and debate about the art and craftsmanship of software

Built automated marketing report generation system in PHP that enabled Metrist Partners to save over 20 hours of data analysis per client per monthBuilt Javascript website user tracking software that enabled Metrist Partners to provide more marketing insights to their clientsBuilt quick python scripts that rapidly inserted tracking software into websites with hundreds of pages.Helped triple productivity by finding two new employees.

Bs, Computer Science

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