A note to recruiters: I get a lot of email from recruiters, so I'm trying the experiment of putting a note at the top of my resume to see what happens. I'm only interested in full-time, permanent positions in NYC or fully remote. I want to write exclusively free and open source software, meaning that I could put pretty much every line of code I write on GitHub. And I want to work on something interesting and cool.

Skills:

• Recently used programming languages: Python, C, Java, Ruby.
• Languages I've used but wouldn't say I'm great at: Scala, Go, JavaScript, C++, PHP, Perl, Intel assembly language (including SIMD instructions), JLex and CUP (Lex and YACC for Java), Visual Basic and QBasic, Pascal.
• Technologies: Git, Hadoop, Pants, Scalding, EC2, Ruby on Rails, Django, Wordpress, Pylons, SQLAlchemy, Greasemonkey, GNU/Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat), Qt and PyQt, Gtk, CGI, PostgreSQL, MySQL, HTML, Parse::RecDescent, X11, AWT
• Software licensing: Code audits, derivative works, GPL and LGPL application.
• Other skills: Technical writing and editing, lecturing and teaching.

Employment:

Twitter     New York, NY       2014-present
Senior Software Engineer:

• Optimize git for large repositories, including contributions to upstream
• Migrate large code repository to modern version of pants
• Contribute to pants, including numerous patches and code review
• Part of 24-hour on-call and support rotations

• Develop desktop software in Java
• Audit security of client and server software
• Develop App Engine web service

OpenPlans (formerly The Open Planning Project)    New York, NY       2006 - 2012
Software Engineer:

• Develop OpenTripPlanner, a multimodal trip planner
• Develop software to track New York City buses
• Develop Rails applications for paratransit
• Design and implement security strategies
• Interview developers
• Contribute to free software projects that OpenPlans depends on
• Developed web-based collaboration platform using Zope and Pylons

Free Software Foundation     Boston, MA       2001 - 2006
Free Software Licensing Guru and GPL Compliance Engineer:

• Develop licensing strategy
• Lecture about Free Software licensing
• Answer Free Software licensing questions
• Investigate Free Software licensing violations
• Write software to check copyright assignments
• Write new versions of GNU GPL and LGPL

i-site, inc     Philadelphia, PA       2000 - 2001
Programmer:

• Designed and program web applications in Perl.
• Administered servers running Red Hat Linux.
• Built dynamic web pages from designs.

Free Software Work:

• Converted NYC bus schedules to GTFS
• SQLObject committer
• Inkscape committer
• Answered licensing questions on behalf of the Free Software Foundation.
• Lectured about Free Software in seven countries.
• Contributed sprite compression code to Worldforge.
• Contributed modules to the Art Of Illusion 3d modeller and renderer.
• Wrote several WindowMaker Dock applets.
• Contributed patches and bug reports to numerous projects, including Wordpress, Gentoo, Dreamwidth, Django, and more.

Education:

• Coursera & Udacity, Machine Learning and AI classes
• Reed College, Portland, OR, Fall 1998 - Spring 2000
• Friends Select School, Philadelphia, PA, 1998

Hobbies:

Electronics, building puzzles, cooking, photography, Scrabble and other games

Press:

• Featured in Tribes, by Seth Godin
• Cameo in The Wolves of Brooklyn, by Catherynne M. Valente