Resume
22 Years of Experience
Experience
2015 - 2021
Ran Davis Software / Realtime Music SolutionsFully Remote Lead Software Engineer
Developed front-end code in jQuery, Vue.js, Bootstrap. Designed and created back-end in Python/Django. Created and maintained development tools in Python and Node. Built and maintained scalable platform using AWS: S3, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, and RDS. Responsible for assigning tasks, reviewing code, coordinating testing and ensuring requirements were met on time. Key Achievement: Developed fully in-browser music app with REST API backend, JavaScript front-end, customer portal for purchasing content and subscriptions, sharing.
2015 - 2020
PlanetStrike: ArcadeUnity Game Developer
Design and development of 3D on-rails space shooter in Unity. Development in C# of game mechanics, player and enemy movement, power ups, special effects, menu logic, and procedurally generated content. Leverage free and commercial assets to accelerate game development. Craft game rules and balancing damage, health, speed to optimize difficulty curve. Ensure stability and performance on mobile and other platforms.
2015 - 2020
Trism2, DemiforceLead Python Full Stack Developer
Developed game back-end in Python/Tornado. Assisted with game front-end in Objective C. Worked directly with the project's founder and technical director. Suggested and implemented changes allowing the game to become scalable using AWS, Python Serverless, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFormation. Key Achievement: Improving the game's server architecture from prototype to full-featured scalable infrastructure.
2008 - 2011
Yale School Of Medicine, Cell BiologyLead Programmer, Bioinformatics Specialist
Developed a high performance computational Bioinformatics app in Python, SQL to guide scientists towards discoveries. Designed custom graph search to find and score all possible connections between two proteins in a cell, outputting the most probable path. Data mined information on 21,000 known human genes (at that time) with regular updates and processing. Studied and implemented code from research papers. Implemented and managed fiber optic SAN capable of storing terabytes of data from continuous automated experiments. Key Achievement: Assisting my team to discover valid scientific data with my code.
2011 - 2015
MediaPen, LLCLead Python Developer
Developed web applications using Python, Django, MySQL MongoDB, Bootstrap, CSS. Developed prototype web application for search and alerting on municipality documents. Wrote custom data mining scripts to scrape the City of San Diego municipality documents. Set up and maintained Amazon AWS infrastructure; EC2, CloudFront, ELB, S3, SES and SNS. Provided consulting on migration of IT infrastructure to Amazon AWS to clients. Managed clients' private electronic distribution for online purchases of digital content.