Jay S. Doane - Résumé


Contact Information:

Jay S. Doane
604 Vermont Street #5
San Francisco, CA 94107-2660

Phone: 415-206-1703
Email: res@almery.com
URL: http://almery.com/~jay/resume/


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
    
    
    SoftwareDeveloper
    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
    

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