Developer Advocate: Performing evangelism and support for Google App Engine. Using Python and App Engine to build internal tools. Resolve user issues, communicate between the global developer community, product management, site reliability, and core engineering teams, organize developer events (meetups, user groups, hackathons, sprints, etc.), help answer questions on online forums as well as during talks with potential partners. Travel worldwide to promote Google and App Engine and deliver Python and App Engine talks and tutorials. Tweet, create/edit blog posts, and technical writing/editing: books, articles, etc.
Principal: Founder and principal resource of technical consulting agency specializing in Python software engineering and corporate training, including public instruction and short-term contracts. All Python-related books, articles, and general technical writing and editing is performed here as well.
Architect: Responsible for some of the logging and reporting for various online Facebook and destination site applications as well as some lower-level middleware and backend infrastructure. Advocating agile development, longer and more thorough design processes vs. hacking systems together that are thrown away, trying to bring some stability to a hectic startup environment. Serving as an in-house Python consultant, assisting others with questions, tasks, etc.; also writing up a occasional column for the team giving insight, describing useful modules, suggested tools, and best practices. TOOLS: Python, SQL, git
Senior Engineer: Building applications for optimizing localized retail shopping for consumers who research and shop online but prefer to buy offline. Built an SMS/text messaging service allowing mobile phone users to access the company's product search engine. Also developed the in-house customer reservation tool on top of an open source issue-tracking system. Have a patent pending on a search engine operating within the bounds of a well-defined geographic location. TOOLS: Python, SVN, XML, JSON, SQL.
Software Engineer: Architected the server-side Virus Outbreak Filters® (temporarily quarantine suspicious messages) for email security applicances. Also developed message-tracking and report generator. TOOLS: Python, CVS, Unix shell, SQL
Senior Software Developer: Lead engineer for clinical trials medical imaging application allowing radiologists and trained technicians to perform vertebral identification in a digital domain and score spine radiographs (X-rays) for vertebral fracture analysis and assessment. TOOLS: Python, Tk (Tkinter and Pmw), SQL, RCS
Technical Yahoo!: Lead engineer managing one junior engineer for Yahoo! People Search, an online white pages directory service. Ported original Four11 service code to Yahoo! platform and built APIs for 3rd-parties to integrate into the service. Responsibilities included development, sustaining engineering, internationalization, automating nightly updates, 24x7 support, and interfacing to other Yahoo! products. Performed the graphical and engineering redesign of the RocketMail/Yahoo!Mail Address Book and Spell Checker. TOOLS: Python, C/C++, Apache, Unix shell, RCS
Software Engineer: Helped build the Yahoo!Mail system (originally called RocketMail). Rearchitected the original spellchecker and built its address book. Also built an unreleased groups service and various text processing for RocketMail. TOOLS: Python, C++, RCS, Unix shell
Member of Technical Staff: Developed networking software for Solaris in the Name Services Group. Improved password coordination between NIS/YP and NIS+ name servers, managed the product source gate/tree, automated nightly builds, tested and integrated bug fixes and enhancements. TOOLS: C, SCCS, Unix shell
CTIS Part-Time Instructor: Deliver an intermediate Python course (CIS 68L) once every other year at Foothill College.
Principal: Founder of technical consulting agency performing private technical corporate training as well as public instruction. Current courses include an intensive "(Comprehensive) Intro+Intermediate Python" and "Advanced Python". Previous courses: "C Language Programming" and "Introduction to Unix".
Course Instructor: Designing and teaching engineering courses for working professionals, primarily Python Programming and Python Programming II. Other courses include: Introduction to UNIX and C Language Programming. Practicing and developing interpersonal skills and strategies while working with a variety of students of differing aptitudes and backgrounds.
Master of Science, Computer Science (emphasis: Distributed Systems)
Artium Baccalaureus, Applied Mathematics (emphasis: Computer Science)
Certificate of Minor Program, Music (emphasis: Classical Piano)
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• Gadfly dbapi20.py (patch 1468968)
• Python bltinmodule.c (patch 1460496)
• pyPgSQL PgSQLTestCases.py (patch 942643)
• Python CGIHTTPServer.py v1.21 (patch 511380)
• GNU a2ps HTML style sheet v1.1
• http://linkedin.com/pub/1/4a3/2b (non-member)
• https://www.linkedin.com/e/fps/4193891 (member)