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Senior Software Engineer with focus on Python, Django, Go. Technology enthusiast and IOT tinkerer. Private pilot. Amateur radio operator.
EXPERIENCE
REDLattice - Chantilly, VA — Senior Software Engineer >>> October 2023 -> Present
- Products Team
- Developed a customer portal in Python/Django with multiple supporting microservices.
- Wrote Linux bash/python scripting to automate servers.
- Created and deployed microservices using docker containers.
- Added new GraphQL endpoints to microservices to allow interservice communication.
- Automated selenium workflows with GitLab CI to reduce manual testing time.
- Created an audit logging system to provide users with increased awareness of their systems.
- Created Debian packages for system services, reduces incorrect installation procedures for deployment.
EverQuote — Boston, MA — Senior Software Engineer >>> January 2022 - June 2023
- Email Remarketing Team
- Ported a Python2.7 monolith to Python3 microservices using FastAPI, and Kafka.
- 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 and command line tools from Python 2.7 to Python 3.
- Migrated alerts system platform from PagerDuty to Opsgenie
- Consumer Engagement Team
- Launched a web service using Go and React (in TypeScript) to assist Sales Reps to provide alternative insurance company matches.
- Transitioned multiple projects from Atlassian Bamboo to GitHub Actions.
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
- Worked on many Sinatra microservices.
- 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 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 code to support front end ecommerce site, and back end inventory management system using Django, Django Rest Framework, jQuery, Bootstrap
- 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
- Created mircoservices to support 3rd party API integration
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.
CONTRACTING WORK
Benchtop Devices
- Multiple C# Desktop programs, interfacing via serial to get results about pressure tests, calculate decay rates, printing results to pdfs, label machines, and local Sqlite databases. Custom per each client.
- Clients include: Waymo, FlexFlow, Hypertherm
- Python/Django and VueJS tool to convert pressure test results from the Cincinnati Test Blackbelt Machine, to PDFs.
VOLUNTEERING
- Boston Athletic Association Amateur Radio Operator - 2019 Boston Marathon