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2022 Resume

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Senior Software Engineer with focus on Python, Django, Go. Technology enthusiast and IOT tinkerer. Private pilot. Amateur radio operator.

EXPERIENCE

EverQuote — Boston, MA — Senior Software Engineer >>> January 2022 -

  • Ported a Python2.7 monolith to Python3 microservices.
  • Automated a daily task for two analysts to be able to be run in only a few moments which saves 18 hours per week of analyst time.
  • Built a UI for manipulating database settings to aid in automating work for analysts.
  • Migrated a handful of repositories from CircleCI testing to GitHub Actions.
  • Ported multiple long running scripts from Python2.7 to Python3.
  • Migrated some command line tools from Python2.7 to Python3.
  • Migrated alerts system platform from PagerDuty to Opsgenie.
  • Launched a webservice using Go to assist Sales Reps to provide alternative Insurance company matches.
  • SOX Compliance training.

Tidelift — Boston, MA — Software Engineer III >>> April 2018 - December 2021

  • Command Line Interface
    • Developed binary CI/CD tool in Go to analyze software dependencies for security/licensing problems
    • Added ability to create users and manage repositories from the command line
    • Expanded personal project into company product
  • Tidelift core redesign and pivot
  • Pivoted from solely a vulnerability scanner to supporting a catalog of open source dependencies
  • Part of small team developing Tidelift 2.0/3.0
  • Developed front end Vue, and back end Ruby on Rails
  • Expanded open source code under https://libraries.io to support more languages.
  • Added new languages manifests support
  • Programmed in multiple projects with code all available as open source on github
    • Bibliothecary: Added ability to detect dependencies in manifests for Poetry, pip-compile, pipfile,
  • Conda
    • Conda Parser: Developed ingestor of Conda environment files, parsing environment.yml files
    • Conda API: Programmed web scraping of Anaconda to detect new packages, and REST API endpoints for packages

Addgene — Cambridge, MA — Software Engineer >>> March 2015 - March 2018

  • Wrote Django REST Framework API server behind a token-authenticated NGINX server
  • Rewrote file storage backend to keep on Amazon S3 instead of local in-house file system
    • Released my own custom Django module as a result
  • Trained non-developers in Python
  • Helped start and expand a "non-developer developer" club

Akamai — Cambridge, MA — Sr. Software Engineer >>> July 2014 - March 2015

  • Wrote an API with Python/Flask that the front end could communicate with
    • Checked if email was a valid user in Salesforce, then sent the user an email from a template
  • Rewrote the backend for an internal dashboard to load data in 0.1 second, down from 10 seconds

Propel Marketing — Quincy, MA — Software Engineer >>> September 2012 - July 2014

  • Built CMS to host and build hundreds of customer websites using Django, jQuery, Bootstrap
  • Created custom widgets, custom styling, custom templates, and more

Appropriate Solutions Inc — Peterborough, NH — Software Developer >>> July 2010 - September 2012

  • Built multiple client websites in Django, jQuery, Bootstrap.

SKILLS

  • Python, Go, Django, Flask, Linux, Docker, Git, Mercurial Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, Amazon AWS (S3 mostly) Google Cloud Storage, REST APIs Kafka, Redis, memcached, Sidekiq, RabbitMQ, Eclipse Mosquitto

EDUCATION

  • Keene State College - B.S. Applied Computer Science (Honors Society), Minor in Mathematics (Honors Society), Dean's List

PERSONAL PROJECTS

  • Django DBFileStorage Goal: to continue running CI tests on a remote storage when working on moving file storage to S3 without incurring additional AWS charges.

VOLUNTEERING

  • Boston Athletic Association Amateur Radio Operator - 2019 Boston Marathon

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