Jay S. Doane - Résumé


Contact Information:

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
    TheMolecular 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:

    Certificate in Web Programming with Erlang
    Erlang University
    
    Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    
    B.A. in Physics
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    

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