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Working on online services, game client integration, internal LiveOps tooling, and a smidge of console porting and netcode for Glowmade's title King of Meat

Seattle, WA, US

I worked on a competitive multiplayer game where I primarily contributed to systems that bridged the game client to the online services. Along with the technical work, I helped players through play tests, and contributed design feedback during weekly tests.All of the systems has been alpha tested by players, and mostly stressed tested in a controlled.

I'm studying different computing problems, primarily game development, language design, and lower-level programming. You can take a look at my progress here https://www.williamhammond.me/portfolio and here https://github.com/williamhammond/

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Embedded as an individual contributor on the Application Platform team. The App Platform team is responsible for the the core Users service, Portals service, supporting jobs and metadata for the those services, and some auth infrastructure including authorization filters and scopes.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

I led a small (2-4) person team to enforce automated financial compliance using automation and tooling built on internal user feedbackBeam: A distributed financial logging tool that consolidated financially impactful logs from dozens of services to S3 to query using Athena. Beam ingests millions of logs per day while providing near real-time access. The.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Billing Security and Compliance

New York, NY, US

Core Infrastructure:LDAP: I developed tooling to improve LDAP and aided in the architecture of LDAP.URL Shortener: Developed an internal URL shortener used throughout the company.DNS: Migrated environments off of Bind DNS to Power DNS.Security: I identified and solved a bug that caused internal credentials to be indexed in an Elasticsearch instance.Data.

Rochester, NY, US

Graded and tutored students in a Data Mining course that covered advanced statistics, agglomerative and hierarchical clustering, basic machine learning, data cleaning, data ethics, feature reduction and linear regression.

Rochester, NY, US

Computational Biomedicine LaboratoryApply statistical methods to better understand the electrophysiology of arrhythmic hearts. Wrote and maintain computational models of the heart. Primary Technologies: R, C++, Fortran, Matlab

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Worked on the Data Infrastructure team focusing primarily on Apache Kafka by writing tools to automate operational tasks, patching and developing in-house Kafka build, and doing ad-hoc operational tasks.KafkaTasks: A service that safely automated tasks like rolling restarts by using Monit to make API calls to instances while considering performance.

Nashville, TN, US

Built data visualization of voter campaign finance data to help voter better understand where candidates funding comes from. I took data from its raw form, cleaned it, transformed it and then visualized it. Other duties include writing scripts that are used to ingest voter file data into databases.Primary Technologies: Javascript, D3.js, Angular.js, R.

Rochester, NY, US

Worked March 2014 - May 2014Maintained Linux systems used for researching the streaming of high resolution video in a research environment.Primary Technologies: Bash, Python

Victor, NY, US

Designed and developed in-house framework used for automated web GUI and web service testing. Logged application bugs and solved framework bugsPrimary Technologies: C#,.NET