Thanks for your interest! Here's a little bit about me: I enjoy playing the guitar, tinkering with computers (hardware and software), and keeping up with what's going on in science and technology.

• Part of the front-end team, building interactive visualizations for clients using HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript.

• Member of the Payments team, providing a single API to interface with half a dozen different payment gateways.
• Build high-availability systems that handle many thousands of requests daily.
• Implemented systems to tokenize sensitive data in a secure and low-latency manner.
• Built the system that hosts and serves the secure, interactive checkout page in the VRBO.com cart flow. The page allows people to enter their payment information.

• Personally created an entirely new control type for the interface designer in the main product.
• Built a utility for validating database structure against contents.
• Fixed dozens of long-standing bugs in the code base in preparation for the next minor version of the product.
• Used Mercurial in conjunction with seven other developers.

• Wrote an emulator for the current HETDEX telescope dome control server in Python, allowing rapid development of new control system software.
• Investigated different non-relational databases for use in storing nightly logs in an easily searchable manner, and made a recommendation as to which to use (MongoDB).

• Designed and implemented a system for broadcasting high definition video over the Internet to multiple client sites.
• Built system using widely available hardware and open source software.

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• Worked on the team building Cinch, a site for reccommending diet-friendly food combinations to users while tracking their food preferences.
• Worked on a preliminary implementation of the reccommendation engine.