Python with Steven K.

Lawrence Technological University

Website administration, web development, and software development for the Robofest program at LTU. Wrote custom software for the generation of all printed materials needed across 40 different competition sites (certificates, signage, badges, and more).

Dropbox

Worked as a Software Engineer for two years on Desktop Platform (infrastructure for Dropbox's Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop app), then worked as a Site Reliability Engineer on Magic Pocket (Dropbox's exabyte scale block storage system).

CommandIQ

Migrated data processing / ETLs from AWS Data Pipeline to a simpler Python + RQ system (reduced complexity, easier maintenance, better monitoring). Replaced email-based alerting system with an error aggregation service. Technologies used: Python, Postgres, redis, RQ, AWS (EC2, Redshift, SQS, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, boto).

Lumosity

Handled operations at every level of the stack as Lumosity.com grew from 20 million to 60+ million users. Scaling, security, performance & profiling, monitoring, automation, configuration management, being on-call & performing maintenance. Technologies used: sharded MySQL, sharded Redis, HAProxy, Chef, Ruby, Rails, Python, Nginx, memcached, Graphite, Nagios. Hosted on SoftLayer (bare metal) and AWS.

Lolapps

Maintained and helped build out infrastructure of 200+ dedicated servers. Migrated internal Subversion repos to Git & Github. Set up automated testing & CI system using Jenkins. Rewrote bash deploy scripts in Python + Fabric.

ePrize

Built online promotions for top brands (Xbox, Disney, Gap, Condé Nast, Dell, Coca-Cola). Developed Facebook applications; integrated with Twitter search and Facebook Connect for social programs.

Lawrence Technological University

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