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OVERVIEW

I am a Software Craftsman with proven 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.
My 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
    As the most server-focused member of the Frontend Team, I made contributions throughout our full stack, ranging from UX to auto-scaled cloud deployments. The company's platform performed realtime social & media ingestion and presented customers with brand-relevant data visualizations.
    My time on the server-side allowed me to;
    • Build an offline content pipeline for CSV exports, PDF screencaps, scheduled emails & in-App notifications
    • Make critical overhauls to our WebSockets server for performance, stability and clustered deployment
    • Expand our Model abstractions with schema & referential integrity, test sandboxing and reliable connectivity
    • Raise the test coverage of our core Node.js API server from nearly-zero to 90%
    I contributed to improvements throughout the platform:
    • Docker adoption to support continuous deployment
    • Prototyping our MongoDB v3.4 ReplicaSet topology
    • Evolving our nginx authentication proxy
    • Scala changes for our ElasticSearch aggregation layer
    • Stabilization and Serverless migration of our scheduler daemon
    • Command-line tooling to emulate WebSocket traffic
    • Refinement and deprecation of our Symfony PHP monolith
    In my role as Senior Engineer,
    • I advocated for adoption of modern JavaScript patterns.
    • I provided specifications, guidance, wisdom and ramp-ups to fellow team members.
    • I evangelized our team 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, I supported and enhanced a Rails-like framework for Game Server development in Node.js. Our game-mechanic modules were woven into a Server codebase via traits and hooks. The team followed an Agile methodology with Git Flow, PR reviews, code style enforcement and test coverage thresholds.
    To support Game development efforts, I implemented:
    • Models to abstract 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
    I also 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
    I was hired as a full-stack developer for a crowdsourcing platform. I championed all client-side efforts, mentored my peers on JavaScript techniques, and was a frequent contributor to our distributed architecture.
    Specific projects included:
    • The complete relaunch of our 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
    I was the company's first technical hire. Our focus was on social gaming for Facebook and the iPhone. We executed rapid feature launches and continuously refined our usage & engagement metrics through A/B testing.
    Games that I built included:
    • "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
    I was hired as the Team Lead for Vending and Payment Systems. I 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
    I joined a small start-up team and developed web application & render pipeline features 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, I was the Lead Architect for a website focused on product customization. I also served 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
    In my role as Web Product Development Lead, I was responsible for the implementation of intranet web systems built with ASP, HTML and JavaScript. I 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