Jay S. Doane

604 Vermont Street #5
San Francisco, CA 94107-2660

Email: cv[at]almery.com
URL: http://almery.com/~jay/resume/

Overview

Experienced developer seeks engaging, remote-friendly projects. I have built: concurrent distributed systems, provisioning tools, automation, web sites & services, geo-aware applications, recommendation systems, social networks, instant messengers.

Software Development

Languages: Erlang, Elixir, Python, Bash, Javascript/JSON, Elisp, HTML, CSS, Java, SQL, Regex, C, C++, XML.

Web: Curl, (Geo)Django, Nginx, Mochiweb, Nitrogen, Apache, Memcached, Twisted, JQuery, Greasemonkey.

Database: Postgres/PostGIS, MySQL, Riak, Mnesia, CouchDB, Berkeley DB.

Devtools: Emacs, Git(hub), Hg, Jenkins, Mock, xUnit, Firebug, Subversion, Selenium.

Protocols: HTTP/S, SSH, SMTP, IRC, DNS, DHCP/BOOTP/PXE, TCP/IP, AMQP(RabbitMQ).

Methodologies: Open Source, Test Driven Development, Scrum.

Operations

Tools: Fabric, Tmux, Screen, Virtualenv, VirtualBox, VMWare, Supervisor, Iptables/ufw, Zenoss, Nagios, Hyperic, Vagrant.

Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS), MacOS X.

Employment History

Erlang Developer
IBM (San Francisco, CA)
June 2015-Present

  • Cloudant DB Core development

    • Software Developer
    Upstart Mobile (Redwood City, CA)
    May 2012-Present

  • Maintained and enhanced distributed Erlang hailing system for flywheel.com (formerly cabulous.com)

    • Software Developer
    genForma (Sunnyvale, CA)
    April 2010-April 2013

  • Created Python provision library for customized node deployment in the cloud https://github.com/genforma/provision

    • Software Developer
    Blipboard (San Francisco, CA)
    April 2009-April 2010

  • Created geolocating mashup using Google Maps, Twitter Search & JQuery
  • Prototyped distributed key-value data storage layer using Riak

    • Software Developer
    Independent (San Francisco, CA)
    July 2008-April 2009

  • Created m82.com: a free anti-spam service running Nitrogen on Erlang/OTP and Postfix, with a RESTful interface and Greasemonkey script; source at http://github.com/jaydoane/subdomain

    • Operations Engineer
    Loomia (San Francisco, CA)
    May 2006-July 2008

  • Managed data center of rapidly scaling web services startup
  • Wrote configuration and release automation tools
  • Optimized schemata to improve performance and enable MySQL dual-master replication
  • Automated service monitoring and developed algorithms to selectively throttle destabilizing traffic

    • Senior Software Engineer
    Tribe Networks (San Francisco, CA)
    March 2005-April 2006

  • Created contact importer tool
  • Implemented content tagging & flagging feature
  • Wrote high-throughput, caching email digest system

    • Bioinformatics Developer
    The Molecular Sciences Institute (Berkeley, CA)
    March 2003-October 2004

    Maintained & enhanced Monod, a Java based, open source, collaborative, molecular biology model building tool

    Software Developer
    Freelance (San Francisco, CA)
    September 2001-December 2002

  • Wrote C++/STL generic correlation detector for PlanetQuest open source extrasolar planet discovery application
  • Built multithreaded Python data collector and state controller for solar power system

    • Software Architect
    Modulant Solutions (San Francisco, CA)
    February 2001-September 2001

  • Designed inversion-of-control architecture for schema mapping and data transformation components
  • Implemented benchmarks, identified and solved performance bottlenecks

    • Principal Engineer
    vivid studios/Modem Media (San Francisco, CA)
    March 1999-February 2001

  • Scoped, wrote proposals, pitched, specified requirements, documented technical design, implemented, and developed maintenance plans for 3-tier web applications, primarily using Java/J2EE

    • Software Engineer
    THEM Productions/Online Partners (San Francisco, CA)
    February 1995-July 1998

  • Developed web based instant messaging application with a Java client and IRC-based C server interfaced to Postgres
  • Decreased server downtimes by writing server supervisor Perl script with X10 interface
  • Built multimedia script editing tool with Delphi for Windows
  • Developed the PC version of the Electronic Arts game Psychic Detective in C++

    • Education

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