Built various new features (social, i18n, address validation, GraphQL api)Rails, GraphQL, JS
Refactored/enhanced existing features (authentication, surveys, creator tools)Rails, JS, Elasticsearch
Upgrades: managed downtime-free upgrades for various parts of the stack Rails, Ruby, Elasticsearch
Security: managed security upgrades, and setup a hosted bug bounty program to streamline our bug-reporting process
Performance: optimized GC, debugged bottlenecks in our stack
Limewire
Software Engineer
(New York, NY)
Helped build the [unlaunched] music service Grapevine HTML5, Java, JS, Scala, Python
Worked on original music service LimeWire StoreJava, Wicket
Helped build LimeCast, an open podcast directory and podcast torrent seed HTML5, Rails
Maintained and helped re-architect LimeSpot social network Rails
Chroniql
Software Engineer
(New York, NY)
Built a ‘gamified’ photo-management webapp: a REST web service that communicated with a Flash frontend Rails, S3
Helped build a messaging framework to asynchronously process tasks Ruby, EC2
Integrated Flickr & Facebook APIs
Helped build an SMS-based social network tool rmbrme.comRails
Personal Work
Contractor / Experimenter / Collaborator
(Remote)
Worked on various volunteer/contract/personal projectsRails, PHP, JS
12 Spokes LLC
Business Partner & Developer
(Salt Lake City, UT)
Co-founded a small web consultancy with three friends
Worked on several web projects: financial managment tool, baby-themed blogging engine, etc Rails
Sento Corporation
Ruby Developer
(Salt Lake City, UT)
Helped build an innovative e-commerce tool used on high-traffic sites JS, Rails, S3
Wrote a useful browser extension that greatly simplified the demo process for marketing team JS, XUL
Short stint maintaining data warehousing scripts Perl
InfoSauce
Web Developer
(Salt Lake City, UT)
Built valid, cross-browser sites & CMS's for banks, concert venues & non-profits HTML, JS, Python, Zope
Built a site, custom CMS and internal calendar for a concert promotion company Rails
Developed a custom CMS for an art gallery AJAX, MySQL, PHP
Volunteering
Dollar a Day: built a charitable giving tool that raised and distributed over $300k among 365 nonprofits. Open-sourced the code at @dollaraday/dollaraday_template (Sept 2012 ~ Sept 2015)
Reach Out and Read of Greater NY's Young Leaders Board Member: helped organize fundraisers (2008 ~ 2014)
Sundance Film Festival Volunteer: IT Dept & Theatre Dept (2003 ~ 2007)
Salt Lake Film Society Volunteer & Employee (2003 ~ 2006)
Academics
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Received B.A. in Film Studies; minored in Philosophy
Tutor: Final Cut Pro and other OSX software (Tutoring Center, 2001)
"ArtsTechnology" pilot program
Intensive language Study Abroad in Nagano, Japan (信州大学, May ~ June 2002)
More Coursework
NYU: CS Bridge Program (Fall 2017)
Coursera: Nand2Tetris Part 1 (September 2017), Programming with Google Go (Fall 2018)