Employment |
Software Engineer / Tech Lead TripAdvisor, Newton, MA | January 2014 - Present |
- Provide technical leadership for between 1 and 3 other engineers on consumer facing restaurants products
- Develop commerce integration with partners such as OpenTable, GrubHub, and LaFourchette
- Develop consumer facing restaurants products including UI/UX improvements as well as data and infrastructural driven projects
- Work on optimizing the restaurant booking process
- Redesign and rewrite the photo lightbox experience
- Work on and maintain media on a large scale
- Work on generally improving the site experience
- Work on internal tools to help optimize development for other engineers
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Engineering Intern TripAdvisor, Newton, MA | May 2012 - August 2013 |
- Work on interfacing with Facebook's Graph API
- Work on storage of social data and providing data to Facebook
- Work on webpage CSS and JavaScript modification
- Work on back end Java servlets
- Fix bugs on social media pages
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Flight Software Intern Skybox Imaging, Mountain View, CA | May 2011 - August 2011 |
- Create a C++ library to interface with LabView and ActiveMQ to display satelite telemetry
- Create displays using LabView to display satelite telemetry
- Create development tools using Python to scan and report on problems with the satelite code
- Set up Hudson (Jenkins) project and write GDB scripts to automate nightly builds and run and report unit tests
- Write AceUnit Unit tests for satelite code
- Update documentation based on satelite code
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Undergraduate Tutor RPI Computer Science Department, Troy, NY | September 2010 - May 2012 |
- Create a C++ library to interface with LabView and ActiveMQ to display satelite telemetry
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Education |
Master of Science Information Technology and Web Science RPI | December 2013 |
Bachelor of Science Computer Science RPI | May 2013 |
Relevant Coursework |
Network Programming - Knowladge of HTTP and socket programming and JavaScript and HTML 5 |
Software Design and Documentation - Knowledge of deign patterns and documentation |
Data Structures - Knowledge of the creation of data structures and their implementation |
Introduction to Algorithms - Creating efficient algorithms and analyzing the efficiency of algorithms |
Computer Organization - Introduciton to computer organization, assembler language, and operating systems |
Programming in Java - Class declarations and definitions, graphics, threads, exceptions, and writing Web Applets |
Parallel Programming - Techniques and meathods for parallel programming including parallel algorithms |
Operating Systems - Computer operating systems including design and implementation |
Machine Learning - Implement and critique basic models of learning from data |
Data Mining - Data mining and knowledge discovery in databases |
Database Systems - Database design, database system architecture, SQL, normalization techniques |
Programming Languages - Language syntax and semantics, types and parameter passing, and programming paradigms |
Software Skills |
- Languages: Java, C, C++, Python, MPI, GDB Scripting, x86, MIPS, Basic, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and XML
- Proficency with the use of Linux and Unix based systems
- Proficency with version control (Git and Subversion)
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Achievements |
- RPI Founders Award of Excellence 2011
- Hollingsworth Prize
- Dean's list (every semester)
- Rensselaer Leadership Award
- TripAdvisor standup comedy competition finalist
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Computer Science Academic Experience |
- UPE Vice President (Computer Science Honor Society)
- Computer Science Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Student Representitive (fall 2011 - spring 2012)
- Mentor for Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software
- Computer Science Undergraduate Tutor and Mentor
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