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OVERVIEW

I am a Software Craftsman with experience in multiple technical stacks, languages and disciplines. My skillset covers the breadth of the development lifecycle, from conception through to launch. I am as familiar with distributed systems as I am with engaging User Experiences. I work 'in the trenches' and lead by example, building fellowship alongside our robust & maintainable technical solutions.
Strengths include;
  • Attention to quality through design principles, test coverage and documentation.
  • A consistent track record of technical leadership and peer mentoring.
  • A Product-focused perspective, balancing immediate needs with a long-term acumen.
  • Adapting complex requirements into deliverable features.
  • Championing customer and end-user needs.
  • Attentive self-management.
  • Proactive communication and negotiation.

SKILLS

  • Server-Side; JavaScript

    Node.js, Express, Socket.io, Promises, Streams, Mocha

  • Client-Side

    React, Backbone, jQuery, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, SASS

  • Cloud; AWS

    ElasticBeanstalk, SQS, EC2, DynamoDB

  • Container

    Docker, Vagrant, Ubuntu, RHEL

  • Persistence & Cache

    MongoDB 3, MySQL 5, Redis, Memcached

  • Development Tools

    Git, Chef, Gulp, Make, Bash

  • Languages

    JavaScript ES2017, Ruby 2, Java 5, Objective C

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

  • - Present Senior Software Engineer Zignal Labs; San Francisco, CA
    Technologies:
    • Node.js 8, Babel, bluebird, @std/esm, express, passport, mongoose, puppeteer, Streams
    • MongoDB 3, Redis
    • EC2, ElasticBeanstalk, SQS, DynamoDB
    • React, Redux, css-modules, Backbone, jquery
    • nginx, Socket.io, RabbitMQ
    • docker-compose, Vagrant, toxiproxy
    • CircleCI, Datadog, Apigee, Artifactory
    • Mocha, Sinon, Istanbul
    Served as the most server-focused member of the Full Stack Team. The platform performed realtime social & media ingestion and presented customers with brand-relevant data visualizations. Made contributions ranging from UX improvements to auto-scaled cloud deployments.
    Lead and implemented server-side projects;
    • Built an offline content pipeline for CSV exports, PDF screencaps, scheduled emails & in-App notifications
    • Made critical overhauls to the WebSockets server for performance, stability and clustered deployment
    • Expanded Model abstractions with schema & referential integrity, test sandboxing and reliable connectivity
    • Raised the test coverage of the core Node.js API server from nearly-zero to 90%
    Contributed to improvements throughout the platform;
    • Adopted Docker to support continuous deployment
    • Prototyped new MongoDB v3.4 ReplicaSet topology
    • Evolved a site-wide nginx authentication proxy
    • Scala changes for ElasticSearch aggregation layers
    • Stabilization and Serverless migration of a scheduler daemon
    • Command-line tooling to emulate WebSocket traffic
    • Refined, then deprecated, a Symfony PHP monolith
    As a Senior Engineer,
    • Advocated for adoption of modern JavaScript patterns.
    • Provided specifications, guidance, wisdom and ramp-ups to fellow Team Members.
    • Evangelized the Team's passion for PR feedback, consistent code styling, maintainability and test coverage.
  • - Senior Software Engineer DeNA West (formerly ngmoco); San Francisco, CA
    Technologies:
    • Node.js 0.10, Express 3, bluebird, lodash
    • Mocha, Sinon, Istanbul
    • MongoDB 2, Redis 2, PubNub, Memcached
    As a member of the "Supernova" Team, supported and enhanced a Rails-like framework for Game Server development. The Team's game-mechanic modules were woven into Server codebases via traits and hooks. Followed an Agile methodology with Git Flow, PR reviews, code style enforcement and test coverage thresholds.
    Core contributions to game framework;
    • Models abstracting MongoDB, Redis & in-memory representations
    • Schema validations, optimistic locking, batched updates, and Client sync via PATCHes
    • A realtime PVP framework with player matching, bots and resilient client messaging
    • A Node.js profiling & debugging sandbox for core dump analysis under SmartOS
    • A scriptable load-testing platform
    Played a leadership role in ongoing Team efforts;
    • Design & Technical specifications
    • Stringent code reviews
    • Mentoring of new developers
    • Promoting JavaScript ES5 & Node.js best practices
    • Establishing a gold standard for documentation
  • - Principal Software Engineer Servio (formerly CloudCrowd); San Francisco, CA
    Technologies:
    • Rails 3, Sinatra, Node.js 0.8
    • Unicorn, EventMachine, nginx
    • Twitter Bootstrap, SASS
    • jQuery 1.8, RequireJS, Facebook SDK
    • MySQL 5, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ
    • Cucumber, RSpec, Mocha
    • Capistrano
    Hired as a full-stack developer for a crowdsourcing platform focused on content generation. Championed all client-side efforts, mentored peers on JavaScript techniques, and was a frequent contributor to the distributed architecture.
    Specific projects included;
    • Complete relaunch of the Worker platform using Twitter Bootstrap & Rails asset pipeline
    • Worker activity 'achievements' posted through Facebook OpenGraph
    • A full-text search and storage solution for reconciliation of translated documents
    • A machine translation daemon backed by Google APIs
    • Client library test automation via Node.js & Mocha & Chai
  • - Senior Software Engineer Aftershock Innovations; San Francisco, CA
    Technologies:
    • Rails 2, Prototype, RJS
    • Flex 3, Flash 3
    • MySQL 5, Redis, Memcached
    • Objective-C
    Hired as first technical employee for a platform focused on social gaming for Facebook and the iPhone. Executed rapid feature launches and continuously refined usage & engagement metrics through A/B testing.
    Built numerous games, including;
    • "Texas Hold'em", with realtime multi-player cash & tournament mechanics, plus live chat
    • Multiple iterations of Buy-Grow-Sell / Investment mechanics (a'la "Farmville")
    • A re-themeable platform for Growth-Expansion-Fight mechanics (a'la "Mafia Wars")
  • - Senior Software Engineer MobiTV; Emeryville, CA
    Technologies:
    • Spring 2 & MVC, JSP 2, Hibernate 3
    • JAX/RS, JAXB 2, RSS, JMX
    • MySQL 5, Oracle 9i
    • Java 5, Ruby, Groovy
    Hired as Lead of the new Vending and Payment Systems Team. Designed and implemented a platform to deliver streaming video Apps onto feature phones.
  • - Senior Software Engineer SnapJot, Inc; San Francisco, CA
    Technologies:
    • Dojo, DWR
    • ImageMagick, Batik, SVG
    • Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, JOTM
    • Struts, Tiles, JSP
    • Apache 2, Tomcat 5
    Joined a small start-up Team developing a web application & document rendering pipeline for online collaborative authoring.
  • - Lead Software Engineer Reflect.com LLC; San Francisco, CA
    Technologies:
    • Java Servlet, Applet
    • JavaScript, CSS, HTML
    • Struts, Tiles, JSP
    • Apache, Tomcat
    • Perl, C++
    Hired as the first in-house Developer. Served as Lead Architect for a website focused on product customization. Acted as mentor and consultant to a small Team of junior co-workers.
  • - Senior Software Engineer Concur Technologies; Redmond, WA
    Technologies:
    • ASP & IIS
    • JavaScript & CSS & HTML
    • Java Applet
    • C++ COM
    Served as Web Product Development Lead. Designed and implemented intranet web systems built with ASP, HTML and JavaScript. Contributed in both a hands-on and leadership capacity.
  • Additional Employment History is available upon request
  • 1995 - Present Architect & Designer Sleepbot.com; Personal Website
    Technologies:
    • AWS, DigitalOcean, Ubuntu, VirtualBox, Chef
    • Node.js 6, Promises, Express, EJS
    • Jekyll, HTML5, SASS
    • Rails, Bundler, Pry
    • Spring Web, Hibernate, JSP, DWR
    • MySQL 5, MongoDB 3
    • nginx, Shoutcast
    • Gulp 4, Grunt, Thor, Capistrano
    Hosting 20+ years of web and client-server projects, the site may be viewed -- warts and all -- at http://sleepbot.com.

EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts; Lowell, MA BS in Computer Science

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email

dan@cantremember.com

Cell

+1.415.845.6548

Mail

1032 Irving St, Box 318; San Francisco, CA 94122-2216