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Work Projects

• Social Media Analytics (2021–2022)
  • Built web application dashboard used internally for sales pitches to customers
  • Built and optimized analytics ETL pipelines
  • Built with Typescript, Vue 3, Firebase, GCP Cloud Functions, MariaDB


• Call Center App For Loan Origination (2019)
  • Worked on a call / sms Twilio plugin to be integrated into Salesforce


• Hiring / Recruitment App (2018–2019)
  • Architected a web application for a startup in the hiring/recruitment space. Built a development roadmap and provided general consultation on the software development process and external API integration.


• Irish Dance Competition App (2017–2018)
  • Built features to enable competition organizers to efficiently administer competitions and dancers. The mobile-friendly web app ran on iPads during competitions to greatly reduce the amount of paperwork required. Paperwork that was necessary was printed from the app.
  • Built with AngularJS, React/Redux (via ng-redux), AngularJS Material, Node, Express, and Neo4j


• Film Industry Analytics (2016–2017)
  • Created D3 data visualizations to enable studios, producers, and financers to quickly understand and plan the financial aspects of producing a movie.
  • Built with D3, jQuery, Bootstrap, and Django


• Delmondo (2016) – Social Media Analytics
  • Implemented the backend API for exporting analytics reports as PDFs using PhantomJS, and added an Angular PDF export directive to allow reuse across the frontend.
  • Built with AngularJS, Node.js, PhantomJS, Express, and Jade


• Zedi (2016) – Oil Pipeline Technology
  • Built a server that receives, processes, and stores data transmitted from Canusa-CPS's IntelliCOAT® system. This system controls the application of heat shrinkable sleeves for the anti-corrosion protection of pipeline field joints (video).
  • Built the corresponding web application that visualizes the data and generates PDF reports
  • Built with Node.js/Koa, ArangoDB, C3.js, Handlebars, jQuery, and Joi. Tested with Mocha. Used Materialize as the CSS framework.


• Real Estate ETL (2015–2016)
  • Loaded real estate CSV data (in REISource and CoreLogic formats) from Amazon S3
  • Performed data transformation with Pandas, loaded the data into an AWS RDS MySQL database, and created dependent tables with JOINs.
  • Built with Python, Pandas, Luigi, Boto


• VoloMetrix (2014–2015) – Enterprise People Analytics Platform
  • Acquired by Microsoft and integrated into Microsoft Viva
  • Built report and dashboard frontends for customers like Boeing, Facebook, and Genentech.
  • Responsible for the frontend codebase.
  • Worked on the analytics backend in F# (OCaml on .NET) and contributed to the REST API and ETL tools in C#.
  • Optimized web application to load 10x faster in Chrome and 100x faster in Internet Explorer for one of our clients.
  • Frontend built with: jQuery, Highcharts, D3, Handlebars, Bootstrap 3.


• SecureWallet (2013) – Money Transfer Web App
  • Service that transfers money with low fees and no chargebacks. Emphasis on privacy and control over your data.
  • Built with: Python with Flask and uWSGI, PostgreSQL, jQuery, nginx, various financial APIs, Bootstrap 3, AWS


• Advanced Internal Medicine (2013) – Medical office website
  • Contains staff bios, reviews, new patient forms, hours, location, and services offered
  • Static site served from nginx on a DigitalOcean droplet (previously, an EC2 instance) with a Makefile for asset pipelining and deployment
  • Built with: CoffeeScript, Jade, Stylus, and Bootstrap 3


• HDRT Enhancer (2012) – Integrated Internal IT Support Tools Into Help Desk Ticketing Website
  • Enhanced usability of the help desk support ticket website by adding "smartlinks", LDAP account lookups, inline commenting, and support queue highlighting directly into the page with cross-site AJAX
  • Deployed via Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey browser extensions to the department

Team Projects

• Gemini Connect (Nov 2013) – Mobile App for Booking Vacation Packages
  • I wrote the majority of the RESTful API backend and did some of the conversion from Bootstrap 2 to 3
  • Built with: MEAN (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js) stack


• Timebanks of Puget Sound (Oct 2013) – Administrative Email Dashboard (for a nonprofit)
  • I wrote the AngularJS frontend except for the login page, set up Node.js on AWS and Heroku to serve the content and accept file uploads, and wrote a wrapper around the backend processing tool to integrate it with the Node server


• Crowdlit (Aug 2013) – Windows Phone App to Report Seattle Streetlight Outages
  • I wrote the RESTful API backend in Python and deployed it to both AWS and Heroku.
  • My API validated user input and submitted outages to the city government. I used the Twilio API to allow submissions via SMS. I also implemented basic user sessions, history of submitted lights, and displaying a map with markers at all locations where broken streetlights were submitted


• Magneeto (Jun 2013) – Portable Magnetic Rep Counter and Exercise Tracker
  • Won 1st place at Startup Weekend – HackThings article, GeekWire article
  • I wrote C code for the Arduino microcontroller that sent the rep count to the server


• IDAPI (Jun 2013) – SaaS Background Check Service
  • I wrote the command line Python tool that scraped public datasets such as the Missouri sex offender database and arrest information for 237 counties. Then, I loaded these datasets as fixtures in Django and helped set up the ORM code for them

Personal Projects

• Facebook Event Exporter Userscript
  • Export full text of individual Facebook events (including ones that you're not "Interested" in or invited to) to Google Calendar.
• Meetup Better Event Exporter Userscript
  • Export full Meetup event description to Google calendar
• validator.js – Data/Type Validation Library
  • Lightweight extensible module for validating JSON responses, internal data models, and function arguments. It can also be used for form validation. Written in Javascript.
• btc – Realtime BTC Exchange Rate Ticker
  • Allows bitcoin purchases via Coinbase API as well. Written in Python.
• squats – Workout Generator and Tracker
  • For Powerlifting and Olympic Weightlifting style workouts. Written in Python.

Open Source Contributions

• oh-my-fish/plugin-foreign-env – Plugin to capture exported environmental variables in foreign bash scripts
  • 1 pull request accepted
  • fixed bug for equal sign not being encoded properly
• donpark/html2jade (npm) – CoffeeScript tool that converts HTML into Jade
  • 2 pull requests accepted
  • added options for not html encoding text and for indenting with tabs
• github/linguist – 1 pull request

Professional Development

• Stanford's Machine Learning course (current)
  • Covers regression, classification, neural networks, SVM
  • Programming coursework done in MATLAB
• IEEE Rockstars of Cybersecurity conference (Sep 2016)
• Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell (Apr 2016–May 2016)
• Application Security Conference by Arxan/Cigital (Oct 2013)
• Stanford's Startup Engineering course (Sep 2013) – earned 99.8%
  • Technologies: NodeJS, Express, PostgreSQL, AWS, Heroku, Bootstrap
• Travis Oliphant on the Role of NumPy/SciPy/PyData in Big Data (Sep 2013)
• Mobile App Development by Apigee (July 2013)
  • Learned HTML5 Phonegap development using Javascript and jQuery Mobile with an Apigee backend

Other interests

• Powerlifting
• Squatted 474lb (215kg) and deadlifted 419lb (190kg) in a USAPL competition
• Benched 5x255lb (116kg) in training


• Search and Rescue
• In-field team member since 2018
• Missions include wilderness searches/rescues, evidence searches, body recoveries, and urban searches.
• Communications operator (in-town) since 2019
• Certified in:
• First Aid / CPR / AED
• Wilderness First Aid
• Avalanche I
• Basic Snow
• FEMA ICS 100 / 700
• Additional volunteer contributions to the team:
• Document Drafting Committee - discuss and draft rules for the Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest, Violations Review documents (2019-2020)
• Training Improvement Committee (2018-2019)
• Basic training staff member (2018)
• I have also taken Stop The Bleed medical training independently of SAR


• Politics
• Ran for state legislature as an Independent. Received 3.5% of the vote in a 3-way jungle primary against the 20+ year incumbent and a major-party challenger
• Researched voter base and crafted campaign messaging to target the segments of voters most likely to support me
• Managed multiple social media accounts, scheduled posts, and tracked social media analytics
• Set up email hosting with Zoho and a campaign phone number with text and call forwarding using Twilio
• Used image editing tools to create campaign materials
• Ran Facebook ads
• Attended endorsement interview with a major regional newspaper