Tieg Zaharia

Work Experience

❧ Tidelift

Staff Engineer

• Customer tooling: built mutual TLS reverse proxy w/JWT support, built REST and GraphQL APIsGo, Rails, GraphQL
• Maintenance: legacy database schema migrations, Ruby & Rails upgrades, regular legacy code refactoringPostgres, Rails
• Data: built and maintained a concurrent OSS metadata ingestion serviceGo

❧ Tidelift

Senior Engineer

• Data: expanded and improved ingestion tooling for OSS package managers
• Customer tooling: helped build CLI product, Artifactory integration, and the core Catalogs productGo, Gradle, Rails
• Prototyping: prototyped an OSS licensing report tool, and a VSCode plugin
• UI: Developed frontend tooling for OSS maintainers and customersRails, Vue.js, Typescript
• Turned day-to-day research into company blog posts

❧ Kickstarter

Staff Engineer

• Led API Team as we implemented OAuth 2.0, established patterns for our GraphQL API, and provided API support Ruby, GraphQL
• Helped launch subscriptions platform d.ripRails, GraphQL, React/Redux/TypeScript

❧ Kickstarter

Developer

• 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

❧ Dollar a Day

Developer (Volunteer)

• Built a nonprofit-giving tool that raised and distributed over $300k among 365 nonprofitsRails, JS, SOAP, AWS, Mailgun
• Wrote payments system using NetworkForGood's API, and then migrated it to Stripe
• Wound down service after 1 year and open-sourced the Rails app at @dollaraday/dollaraday_template

❧ Limewire

Developer

• 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

Ruby Developer

• 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.com Rails

❧ Personal Work

Contractor / Experimenter / Collaborator

• Worked on various volunteer/contract/personal projectsRails, PHP, JS

❧ 12 Spokes LLC

Business Partner & Developer

• 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

• 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

• 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

Other Adventures

• 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

• 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shin州shu大dai学gaku, May ~ June 2002)

❧ More Coursework

• NYU: CS Bridge Program (Fall 2017)
• Coursera: Nand2Tetris Part 1 (September 2017), Programming with Google Go (Fall 2018)
• Recurse Center Mini Batch 2 (Feb 2019)

Skill Set

Operating Systems

OSX, Linux, WinXP/2000, Solaris

Languages/Tools

HTML5/CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, Go, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, ASP, XUL, Scala, Typescript, React/Redux

SCM

git, Subversion, VSS

Databases/stores

PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MSSQL, redis, ElasticSearch