Tom Schirmer Email & Phone Number

Dublin, Ca, Us

Dublin, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Senior Frontend engineer at Microsoft, working on Yammer, an enterprise social networking service.- Primary responsibilities include maintenance of the legacy Yammer web application, as well as contributing to the development of ground-up rewrite of the web application- The legacy application is a mix of React and Backbone components, with a homegrown data layer- The new application is written in TypeScript, React, and Redux, using GraphQL.- Other responsibilities include some page and email templates in Ruby on Rails, as well as an embedded version of Yammer and an Electron-wrapped desktop client- Lead numerous feature projects- Worked on Yammer's GDPR compliance, client-side authorization using O365 tokens, and moving Yammer's data store to the Outlook Substrate- Familiar with concepts of accessibility and security - JavaScript (React, TypeScript, Backbone), occasional Ruby On Rails - Work was performed on OSX

Full stack developer at a start-up developing assessment and planning software for use by K-12 educators.• Developed code to import third party assessment questions using the IMS QTI format (an XML standard for assessment items) into our tool, using Nokogiri.• Built model and UI for rubrics-based (non-multiple-choice) assessment items.• Improved UI for item searching and assessment construction.• Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (including jQuery), MySQL, SVN, Thinking Sphinx• Work was performed on PCs running Ubuntu

San Francisco, California, Us

Full stack developer at an Internet start-up. Worked on two projects: YieldBuild, a website advertisement placement engine that dynamically optimizes ad layouts (approximately summer ’07 to September ’09), and HubPages, an Internet self-publishing website. Hubpages:• Projects included user signup flow, Facebook Connect authorization, user help flow, various image enhancements (slide shows, image resizing, drag-and-drop reordering), and a nightly script to detect inactive users.• UI maintenance tasks included modifying and extending form validation JavaScript, improving JavaScript drag and drop library, porting older Prototype modules to jQuery, and implementing a lightbox class for displaying additional data or forms overlaid above the main page.• PHP, JavaScript (Prototype, jQuery), SVN, Git, MySQL YieldBuild:• Projects included a configuration wizard to walk clients through the provisioning process, a variety of scrapers to collect report data from ad service partners, and code to detect when a client had churned. • Ruby On Rails, JavaScript (Prototype), SVN, TDD

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Interactive University Project. Software developer on the Scholars Box, a desktop application to allow students, teachers, and researchers to collect and organize materials collected on the Internet. The application provided a common interface for search a variety of online data sources, as well as understanding several standard search protocols and metadata formats. Code was written in Python and wxPython, as well as some FireFox plugins and GreaseMonkey scripts.

Worked as a member of the UI team at an enterprise software start-up designing web site deployment software. Projects included a deployment configuration tool (desktop app, written in Java Swing) and an XML-based configurable demo tool for prototyping of concepts and demos. Code was written in Java.

Worked as a senior programmer at an Internet music start-up. Projects included an artist recommendation engine (using data accrued from web crawling, licensed data and collaborative filtering), a prototype for extracting song features from MIDI files, a personalized playlist generator (based on user’s download history), and a web-based playlist manager. Code was written in Python and JavaScript.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Worked as a software developer on the Digital Libraries Project, a DARPA/NSF/NASA-funded research project investigating methods for accessing heterogeneous, widely distributed information sources, as well as its follow-up project, the Digital Libraries Project II. DL1 Projects included integrating various Internet services into our testbed (which used ILU, a CORBA implementation), implementing a queryable collection for storing retrieved information, writing a proxy for Z39.50 information sources, and building infrastructure for the translation of metadata between various sources. DL2 Projects included working on a simplified version of the interoperation protocol developed in the first phase of the DL project, integrating DL services from the original phase into the new infrastructure, and developing a client application to allow querying of our sources on a Palm Pilot.Code was written in Python, Java, and C++.

Worked as a software engineer at a defense contractor, working on mission planning software. Work involved both maintenance of a legacy mainframe codebase and the migration of some of that system’s functionality to a workstation-based system. Code was written in C, FORTRAN, COBOL/2, and TSO CLISTS. Work required a Top Secret government clearance.