Jay S. Doane - Résumé

Overview

Experienced developer and open source contributor with background building: web sites & services, geo-aware applications, social networks, instant messengers, recommendation systems, automation, etc., seeks engaging projects.

Software Development

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

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

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

Tools: Emacs, Git/hub, Hg, Subversion, xUnit, Buildbot, Hudson, Firebug, Selenium, Trac, IntelliJ, OmniGraffle.

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

Methodologies: Open Source, Test Driven Development, Scrum.

Operations

Tools: VMWare, Screen, Supervisor, Capistrano, Iptables/ufw, ZXTM, Nagios, Hyperic.

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

Employment History

Software Developer
genForma (Mountain View, CA)
April 2010-Present

Developed Hudson/libcloud based continuous integration node deployment tool

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

Created geolocating mashup using Google Maps v3, Twitter Search & JQuery

Prototyped distributed key-value data storage layer using Riak

Implemented real time web notifier with Orbited/Stomp, Django & Nginx

Software Developer
Freelance (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 for 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 code

Optimized MySQL 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

Built Ajax contact importer

Implemented content tagging & flagging

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 talking 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