Open Source

Rubygems
• Flamethrower: IRC to Campfire Eventmachine based chat gateway
• Skeeter: Non-blocking web application that converts images to ASCII art with ZeroMQ
• Rubycue: Pure Ruby cuesheet parser

Other
• Metra Schedule: A Ruby schedule scraper and object library for the Chicago Metra train system
• djmpc: ncurses client for Music Player Daemon in Python
• libtwit: Built a Twitter library in C based on libxml and libcurl

Past Projects

Work

• Groupon web and API
• WOPR: Internal project tracking system (Ruby on Rails)
• OpenExchange: Investor relations video chatting portal (Ruby on Rails)
• RapidReporting Platform/Revere: Mortgage reporting application (Ruby on Rails)

Personal

• iPhone Metra: mobile iPhone application for Chicago Metra train schedules (Ruby on Rails)
• Lake Zurich Revitalization: City of Lake Zurich reconstruction website (Django)
• An-Ya Official: Pop artist An-Ya official website (PHP)
• Purdue Skydiving: Purdue Sport Parachute Club website (Django)

Practices

• Agile Development
• Test Driven Development
• Pair Programming

Work Experience

Software Engineer
Groupon - (Summer 2010 - Present)

• Build the public API consumed by all official mobile applications as well as affiliate partners
• Add scalability and caching strategies for high API throughput
• Build and integrate with Urbanairship for iPhone push notifications
• Took our batch ordering system and made it support < 5 second SLA for Groupon NOW realtime credit card processing
• Increase background job processing throughput with Resque and Redis
• Give Brown Bag presentation on Groupon API usage, Mongrel web server internals, and ZeroMQ

Software Developer
NVISIA, Chicago, IL - (Fall 2009 - Summer 2010)

• Build call center prototype (Spring/Jquery)
• Implement Java web applications on Tomcat and Jboss

Software Developer
Pathfinder Development, Chicago, IL - (Summer 2009 - Fall 2009)

• Give Brown Bag presentation on using Git and common workflows and common pitfalls
• Pair programming on all applications
• Test Driven Development, including: Cucumber, RSpec, Shoulda, BlueRidge
• Assist in iPhone initiative. Cocoa/iPhone application development
• Raise test coverage on older rescue projects
• Setup continuous integration build server for Rails projects
• Spearhead upgrading projects to new versions of Rails
• Old code review: Fix dead code and obsolete tests

Java Tutor
Self Employed, West Lafayette, IN - (Winter 2009 - Spring 2009)

• Teach fundamental computer science theory
• Emphasize object oriented design and good coding practice
• Teach flow control and logic skills

Technical Skills

• Unix/Linux
• MySQL/Postgres
• Redis/Resque
• Python/Django
• Ruby/Ruby on Rails
• Java
• Javascript (JQuery, Prototype)
• C
• Flash/Flex/ActionScript
• PHP

Education

• Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
• Bachelor of Science, Management, May 2009
• Major: Business Management
• Minors: Management of Information Systems, Information Technology