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Erlangen, BY, DE

I help reason about code, organizations, and build GT, the Glamorous Toolkit, one of the most exciting pieces of technology I know about.

Berlin Und Umgebung, Deutschland

I help companies figure out what they need and how they can build it. I also help some old friends from my time at Port Zero, through Port Zero, though independently.In this time, I’ve cosplayed as an independent technologist, research engineer, and interim CEO and CTO.

Berlin Und Umgebung, Deutschland

All of the work that I did as a senior software engineer, plus the pleasure and privilege of working with a diverse team of skilled engineers, taking responsibility for all of our work.- Wrote a portfolio management system in Pharo Smalltalk for a Global 500 company that is able to visualize thousands of projects and tens of thousands of people working on.

Berlin Und Umgebung, Deutschland

• Building software for a diverse set of clients, including Internet Service Providers, startups, and Global 500 companies.
• Wrote an API for BIRD, an internet routing daemon, in Go, with microsecond latency and high configurability. It is currently being used by a variety of Internet Service Providers.
• Audited software systems written in Java and Python for faults and helped find security holes. This included communicating these issues to the teams in a blameless and constructive way.
• Built internal and Open Source tooling using Python and Django; C; and JavaScript for the company to help track clients and projects. This freed up time otherwise spent on synchronization between departments.
• Built Customer and Operations portals and help desks using Javascript and React; Python and Django; and Go that helped speed customer onboarding up from days to hours.
• Worked with Python and NumPy to speed core sections of a client’s code base used for calculating resource availabilities up by a factor of 5-7.

Großraum New York City Und Umgebung

Researched and explored personal projects during a self-directed 3-month programming retreat. Work included reinventing language features using Lisp macros; building compilers and virtual machines in Rust and OCaml; and producing digital generative art using shaders and P5.js.

Berlin Und Umgebung, Deutschland

• Collaborated with a wide variety of clients in the Berlin area, mostly on web-based systems of various kinds. Developed, audited, and migrated systems while learning to remain calm under pressure.
• Maintained and extended customer-facing websites written in JavaScript and Angular. Split up applications into modules, drastically reducing onboarding time of other maintainers.
• Helped mitigate a DoS attack on a client’s infrastructure while it happened. Moved integral and parts of the system into the AWS cloud for better load balancing and uptime while the system was running.

Berlin Und Umgebung, Deutschland

Developed the backend of Bright’s products, written in Python using Flask through several iterations. Brought it from a Minimum Viable Product to a set of maintainable services that helped artists monetize their art. Took care of code reviews across projects on Github and kept track of the code climate through Continuous Integration and Deployment. Was.

Berlin Und Umgebung, Deutschland

Developed an open source Big Data Visualization tool for non-programmers. Researched on and prototyped realtime audio streaming technology and built information systems and multimedia applications for the Konzerthaus and Märkisches Museum Berlin.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Angewandte Informatik

Psychology

Dropped out of the degree to pursue a degree in Computer Science instead; still learned a ton about human nature and learned to love.