Senior Software Developer

Gist (acquired by Research In Motion in 2011)

Employee #4 at Gist, a next-generation contact manager that tracks information about everyone in your inbox -- automatically. Full-stack developer using HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby, Java, MySQL, and Cassandra, responsible for many pieces of Gist architecture. Designed system for efficient synchronization of public profile data between users’ accounts. Developed algorithms for automatically merging contact data from different sources into a unified address book. Integrated Gist with IMAP servers, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Facebook Messages, and many other services. Designed and built systems for aggregating community input about the quality of the data that Gist finds for users’ contacts.

After Research In Motion acquired Gist in February 2011, I worked to scale up Gist's cloud services to handle millions of users for RIM. I was responsible for the architecture of the Contacts database and infrastructure in the BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 release. I split my time between QNX-based mobile development in Python, and SQLite, and Linux-based server-side development in Ruby/JRuby, Java, and Cassandra.

Software Engineer, Lead Software Engineer

Jobster

I led a small team of software engineers making it possible for Jobster's social recruiting platform to power social networking and job board sites for other organizations. The platform was based on Ruby on Rails, utilizing REST-oriented web services built in both Ruby and Java.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon.com, Ordering and Monitoring Teams

Designed information visualization tools for automatically discovered relationships between software and hardware components, integrated with both high-level and detailed visual displays of the “health” of all hardware and software components. This tool used AJAX to provide fast access to more detailed drill-down graphs and data from the server on demand and allow the user to explore the distributed software network. Responsible for development of many features in the Your Account section of the customer-facing Amazon website, including past order history and password recovery.

Software Engineer

Terra Lycos, Mountain View Office

Implemented a fault-tolerant service for handling customer-purchased add-on features in Lycos Mail using Java, XML, JDBC, and TIBCO Rendezvous. Built an internationalized web development environment that allowed non-programmers to build the interface for software that was implemented and translated independently. Designed and developed a single-sign-on and registration service for integrating login for applications built on different technology platforms by companies inside and outside of the Lycos Network.

Associate Professor

University of San Francisco, Dept. of Computer Science

Designed and taught one- and two-unit classes about Unix and Perl over 3 semesters, including general usage, system administration, TCP/IP networking, and security concerns.