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- 1. brandon black Software Engineer 22343rd St #E511 San Francisco, CA 94107 p. (650) 257-0111 e. brandonmblack@gmail.com Summary I am a senior-level software engineer with an excellent palette of knowledge and experience. I’m seeking a challenging opportunity to work with other equally passionate individuals in an environment where my skills can make a considerable impact. I possess excellent communication skills both written and verbal, and I am very enthusiastic and supportive about open-source software and the open-source community. Experience 10gen, Inc. Palo Alta, CA (September 2012 to Present) Software Engineer • Asked to join 10gen, the makers of MongoDB, as a member of the ruby driver team where my primary responsibility was to maintain the official ruby client for MongoDB. The ruby team itself is small, but part of a larger driver team composed of technology experts and major open-source contributors from all over the world, representing nearly every major language and technology. • In addition to my code contributions, my duties and accomplishments included helping organize and lead the team, mentoring more junior members of the team, design and implementation of an all new ruby driver, planning our release roadmap and improving our release cycle, test coverage and overall productivity. • A key part of the role also involved working closely and collaborating with other members of the MongoDB ruby community external from 10gen (e.g. Mongoid, MongoMapper). In some cases I worked with these project owners as direct members of my team and in other cases it was a much more loosely defined collaboration. Contributing to the open-source community in both code and support was a large part of my responsibility and strongly encouraged by the leadership at 10gen. • Along side my primary role as a key maintainer for the ruby driver, my role was also that of a developer advocate to help further the open-source community around MongoDB as well as the ruby community in general. My contributions here included organizing local meetups, blogging on MongoDB’s official blog and numerous conference talks (RailsConf, LA Dev Week, MongoDB Developer Days). • I also regularly assisted with on-site customer consults and support engagements, led public and non-public MongoDB training sessions, helped construct MongoDB educational materials and helped provide technical reviews and content updates for MongoDB related books and publications. Related Links: http://www.10gen.com http://www.mongodb.org
- 2. Facebook Menlo Park, CA(April 2011 to September 2012) Software Engineer • Brought on-board to lead a small group of developers and help spin up a team to build mobile and Ruby-based internal tools for Facebook. These tools were designed to service both employee and business needs. However, my day-to-day development involved many technologies including: Java, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby and Python. • Released several high profile projects within the company and held regular tech talks with my team to help advance their knowledge of Ruby and mobile application development. These included HR, finance, and several highly visible direct-to-employee projects. • Helped establish a number of processes and guidelines for this new development team including development and deployment workflows, best practices for authentication and security, and our own mini-web framework designed to take care of boilerplate code for our internal applications. • Single-handedly designed and implemented an HTML 5 based, data-driven campus mapping system which pulled its data directly from a variety of data sources through a deep integration with AutoCAD, Microsoft Exchange, ActiveDirectory, Facebook’s Graph API and a system of motion sensors throughout the campus. This system served as a vital campus service for finding people and meeting spaces and received much acclaim. • Designed and implemented an HTTP-based, REST API back-end that enabled dozens of systems and tools to interact with our meeting and map related data. This API served as a central authority for managing over a thousand room resources, it helped streamline personnel moves, and gave us unprecedented insight into how best to optimize the usage of many high-demand campus resources. • Designed and maintained a system of touchscreen kiosks and digital signage for the mapping system that were installed all throughout Facebook’s 11-building Menlo Park campus and many of the international campuses. In additional to configuring and assembling the hardware systems on-site, I developed a series of internal tools and automated processes to aid in monitoring and administration of the entire system. Related Links: http://www.facebook.com MeLLmo, Inc. Del Mar, CA (October 2009 to April 2011) Senior Software Developer • Acted as the primary engineer leading all phases of several key strategic projects including our subscription based eCommerce integration with Reg.net for payment processing and our product licensing API, implementation of Google’s OpenID single sign-on and Google Docs API, integration with Google Marketplace and the Google Licensing API, and also Roambi’s integration with the Endeca data engine. • Assisted in the construction of our own internally built Ruby-based web framework using Sinatra, JRuby, Erubis, and JQuery. Championed an effort to modernize the Flash/Flex data visualizations using cutting edge web technologies.
- 3. • Key ina company effort to build out a front-end team by assisting in educating several of our in-house graphics designers on the use of HTML5, CSS3, and JQuery and assisted in the construction and maintenance of the CSS framework that the design team would later be responsible for. • Implemented the mobile, web-based login UI as well as an OAuth (and later OAuth 2.0) API for Roambi’s mobile clients to use in order to handle user authentication with Roambi server on the device and provide means to easily and remotely revoke access for lost or stolen devices. • Worked very closely with the mobile client teams to develop an entirely new stealthy, yet-to-be-released product for the company that makes heavy use of semantic HTML5 markup. I served in an advisory/mentor role for the other members of the team the team, and also built out a Ruby-based API for the server component of the project. • Daily duties consist of core product work in Ruby/JRuby, however I also played a key role in production support for our cloud-hosted offering on Amazon EC2 with a MySQL database backend. In that role I helped train the other members of the IT team and taught them how to migrate their maintenance, backup, and deployment scripts from bash to Ruby. • I was also responsible for the development of several internal web-based tools used by the finance and customer support teams to process payments, make user account changes, and perform basic system administration. Related Links: http://www.roambi.com MySpace.com, Inc. Beverly Hills, CA (December 2007 to October 2009) Senior Software Developer • A lead member of several critical teams and MySpace initiatives including a core role on the MySpace Developer Platform. Instrumental in the delivery and upkeep of several major products including MySpace’s many open standards initiatives such as the OpenSocial application platform, OAuth implementation, and RESTful APIs. • Served as both a team-lead and SCRUM Master for several teams concurrently while working at MySpace. It was part of my regular duties to lead daily stand-ups and planning meetings, and to help resolve impediments for my teammates to keep them working and trouble free. These teams were considered to be the best of the best at MySpace and were very influential throughout MySpace’s entire engineering team. • As team lead, I also had a very close working relationship with the MySpace Developer Platform’s business development team. My attendance was regularly required at director-level meetings as well as meetings with strategic external partners for the platform. • I was also key in product planning meetings and was regularly asked to attend and assist in breaking down product tasks into engineering tasks and provide work estimates for my teams. • Personally responsible for the development of several key components of the MySpace Developer Platform including portions of the user home page, user profile page, user privacy-settings and application permissions, and the MySpace login page.
- 4. • Key partof the launch of MySpaceID, which is MySpace’s OpenID implementation paired with OAuth APIs for accessing user data. My responsibilities included API development and maintenance and contributing to the MySpaceID SDKs across a number of different languages including PHP, Ruby, Java and C#. • I had a significant role in the development of the MySpaceID JavaScript SDK, which included portions of the login flow, and functionality that allowed developers to post user activities into MySpace using only client script. • Other duties at MySpace included partner and developer community support, design and documentation, and production support. I was a regular initial go-to for our network operations team whenever there was trouble with the platform in production. • I became passionate about working in Ruby in January of 2009 while still at MySpace and I led efforts to bring more Ruby into the engineering team there. I was able to contribute to the MySpaceID SDK in Ruby some, but eventually left the company voluntarily in the fall of 2009 to pursue a full-time work in Ruby. Related Links: http://www.myspace.com http://developer.myspace.com DoctorDirectory.com, Inc. Asheville, NC (Spring 2005 to December 2007) Software Developer/Database Analyst • Lead software developer in a fast moving company with a focus on a team environment. • Responsibilities included full life-cycle development, design and implementation of Web- based Applications, Desktop Applications, Web Services and Distributed Applications using C# and .NET 2.0 and 3.0. • Was key in the design and implementation of many of the company’s top priority projects and programs including a rich and interactive web based eLearning platform for physicians as well as an online eSample platform. • Daily duties included quickly transforming internal and client application requirements into robust, scalable solutions with a strong emphasis on object oriented design (OOD), loosely coupled systems of software and data, and best practices for database and software design and implementation. • Other duties included: Help desk & technical support, network and server administration (SQL Server, Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server), database design and analysis, and legacy application support. Related Links: http://www.doctordirectory.com http://www.increaserx.com LeTourneau University (Biomedical Engineering Team) Longview, TX (Spring 2004 to Spring 2005) Research Lab Technical Support/Software Developer • Worked full-time with the biomedical research team at LeTourneau University as they performed grant funded research with a focus on the use of robotics for limb replacement.
- 5. • Required tobe on call at all times and responsible for the maintaining the integrity of the team’s weekly data backups as well as the lab equipment and any other technical issues the team came across. • Provided general help desk and technical support, troubleshooting hardware and software systems, maintaining lab computers and equipment, and maintaining network support for the team. • Responsible for launching and maintaining a web-based platform that allowed the researchers to capture their findings and log their results in a collaborative manner. Diamond Brand Outdoors Arden, NC (July 1997 to December 2004) Information Technology/Database Analyst • Worked both full-time and seasonally under contract with a prominent outdoor retail store and manufacturing plant in Western North Carolina. • Responsible for general customer service, help desk and technical support, network maintenance and administration, computer hardware and software repair, computer training for other employees, web store maintenance and administration, and graphical design. • Responsible for maintaining databases for customer and vendor information and inventory management for both the retail store and the manufacturing plant. Related Links: http://www.diamondbrand.com LeTourneau University (Student Services/Career Services) Longview, TX (Fall 2001 to Spring 2005) Web Design/Technical Support • Provided web development and general technical support to the Career Services and Student Services departments at LeTourneau University. • Duties included preparing local campus announcements, web development and maintenance, and general computer support for the department staff • Provided technical support and consultation at various events such as campus career fairs and on-campus employer interviews. Education Computer Science and Information Systems, B.S. LeTourneau University Longview, TX Educational Highlights - Biomedical Engineering Team, Phoenix Project (Unmanned Arial Vehicle), HPV Team (Human Powered Vehicle), Longview Blitz Community Service Work.
- 6. Skills Languages C#, Ruby/JRuby, JavaScript,HTML/CSS, Java, C, PHP, C/C++, Go, Rust Frameworks Rails, Sinatra, Cucumber, RSpec, Jasmine, Capybara, Node.js, JQuery, Modernizer, Paper.js, Selenium Web-Driver, Celluloid, Sidekiq Software Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, Sublime Text, TextMate, JEdit, IIS 5/6/7, Nginx, Apache, Tomcat 6/7, Glassfish, SQL Server, Passenger, Puma, MySQL, Postgres, SQLLite, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon EC3, Amazon S3, Git, Subversion, Mercurial, Jenkins Platforms, Standards, Environments & Other Technologies OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID, RESTful Web Services, Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/Win 7/2003/2008, Mac OS X, iPhone SDK 2.0/3.0/4.0, MSDOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, .NET Framework (2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0), LINQ, ADO .NET, SQL Reporting Services, Crystal Reports Current Interests Ruby/JRuby, Rails, Sinatra, MongoDB, HTML5, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, Go-lang, Scala References Available upon request and on LinkedIn.