SUMMARY:

• Creator of the (world's first?) automated Django - app-writing Django app. Avid developer with over 2 amateur and 4 years professional web development experience. Intelligent and committed to excellence. Great analytical reasoning and problem solving mind. Great at quickly learning advanced scientific concepts. Devoting time and energy to expanding skills in programming and web development, with extensive experience in the web, sysadmin scripting, and automation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: Python (scrapy, requests, lxml, PIL, Celery, RabbitMQ, South, Beautiful soup etc..) Advanced regex skills (python) Django framework (django - mptt, django rest FR, django messaging FR, etc..) Flask, Docker Postgres, MySQL, and neo4j databases light PHP and Ruby (rails) Javascript, jquery, AJAX, knockout.js, React.js CSS, Sass, Bootstrap HTML 5 xml, xpath Apache, nginx/gunicorn, and Heroku deployment CSV/PDF rendering, including Prince Extensive Python/Django/Flask/React development across Ubuntu, Fedora, and Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Fullstack developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for deploying Flask apps after writing them, using Google Container Engine and Cloud SQL
• Assisted in troubleshooting Jenkins files
• Automated deployment of Flask apps requiring a dedicated server with SSH capabilities, using bash
• Filled in the lacking role of UX developer for my local team, using knockoutjs
• Impressed management by rapidly implementing creative solutions without prompting, including creating an admin system from scratch where a tedious manual process was formerly required
• Declared “very fast” by a respectable senior coworker

Confidential

Coding bootcamp teaching assistant

Responsibilities:

• Quickly filled in as emergency replacement with minimal, in a fast-paced class covering much curriculum
• Provided expert technical guidance, troubleshooting difficult problems for languages I don’t use, where other TA’s weren’t able to help
• Became a go-to tutor for several students during project hours, being actively sought out for help building the most difficult projects

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Part-time Fullstack developer

Responsibilities:

• Jumped into a large codebase head first, being productive on day 1
• Quickly integrated postmark mailer API to send ebooks to prospective publishers
• Writing comprehensive unit tests in a codebase lacking tests
• Impressed senior dev supervisor with thoroughness of note-taking on tickets, clarity of thought, and organization of git branches

Confidential

Python/Django developer

Responsibilities:

• Learning cutting edge open source technologies like Docker, Fabric, Puppet, Python, and Django
• Manage and update Dockerfile and Docker settings for my local machine
• Have gone through the Docker tutorial twice
• Writing unit tests with speed and accuracy that leave the VP of software engineering speechless
• Building new and integrating existing API endpoints using Django rest framework
• Automated entire python developer local deployment setup, turning a 3 hour process into 10 minutes anytime a new employee joins of a coworker wants to use a new machine
• Solving abstruse problems with a poorly built legacy Perl codebase
• Specializing in Python unittest coverage

Confidential

Python/Django developer

Responsibilities:

• Using Python/Django, HTML, CSS, Sass, Javascript, SQL, and Postgresql, maintaining and adding software features that get a “good job” from upper management that almost never give out compliments
• Built two medium sections of the internal EMR system and public facing website, adding a variable (0 to infinity) amount of buttons for categories, and calling a django REST framework API built by a coworker
• Built the foundation of a large unittest framework, successfully faking 183 Django models, and writing unittests to check the accuracy of our data
• Maintaining strict version control using Git, with an understanding of what tasks require branching and which can be done in dev
• Automated a large portion of my job by writing a little code to write a huge amount of code, also writing scripts to do my work for me on one screen, as I continued working on the other screen
• Started learning to implement an agile system for a small, flexible team

Confidential

Python/Django developer

Responsibilities:

• Saved the company $250,000+ per year (according to my supervisor) by finishing a solo automation project in Django well ahead of schedule, using Postgres, Python, Django, HTML, CSS, and XML, using several 3rd party APIs
• Worked independently with minimal supervision in my first professional Django role
• Saved ~2 hours per day * 44 sales reps with my automated e-contract program, also saving plenty of iffy deals from unsure customers (gaining copious love from sales reps)
• Used version control through BitBucket, learned the Git command line, and learned Linux
• Deployed my new app using Apache2 and mod wsgi through Ubuntu

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Pharmaceutical Chemist (contractor)

Responsibilities:

• Produced 3000+ vials of a precious bone marrow cancer drug hands on in an extremely strict class 100 lab environment
• Maintained perfect cleanliness/purity of all handled equipment, raw materials, and machinery
• Was a key factor in producing more product than expected, ending the project early and saving a startup company a large amount of resources

QA/Algorithmic math programmer/web developer

Responsibilities:

• Created interactive math problems in webpage form using an in-house interface, HTML, and an in-house TBern language
• After being asked to learn the TBern language without the usual 2 week program because the project is far behind schedule, I worked 55-60 hour weeks and finished in the top 4 in productivity (45-69 problems per week) out of more than 60 co-workers for the vital 3 weeks before the deadline
• Constantly taught new employees and other co-workers syntax and tricks in TBern to help the team
• Created original feedback for solutions that are unique to each problem, learning to write creatively as an essential job skill
• Helped troubleshoot coding problems with teammates, showing great Confidential ce and consideration for my team