Objective

To design and develop great infrastructure and enjoyable things.

Qualifications

• Programming lead on a Video Game,
• Toolchain development in C++ and Qt,
• Debugging in JavaScript, C, C++ and Assembly,
• Can be a one man army or small cog in a large machine,
• Open Source enthusiast,
• Focused on semantics over implementations.

History

• 2011–…
  Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems Inc.
  • Flash Runtime / Smart TV porting team
  • Digital Publishing / WSDK
  • Digital Publishing / Adobe Content Viewer (Windows 8)
• 2010–2011
  Lead Programmer at LineMonkey
  • Redeveloped the Public Interface and the Point-of-Sale HTML5 application.
  • Developed in Ruby, Rails, HAML, SQL, and JavaScript simultaneously.
  • Perfomed security analysis and made suggestions.
  • Solved issues with bad data in production.
  • Perfomed on-site client support.
• 2 weeks of 2009 - Tenera
  • Integration task involving a CNC Machine, the Canon Camera API, with a Qt Graphical User Interface.
  • Program took pictures at a sequence of coordinates by sending G-code to the CNC tool to move the camera and the Canon API to shoot. Automatically found focus by selecting a Z-value with the highest local contrast.
  • Working prototype delivered in 2 weeks.
  • Implemented inversion of control using win32 fibers to interface cleanly between Qt and the visual basic script in the CNC tool.
• 2006–2009
  Programmer at Santa Cruz Games
  • Shipped 7 titles, on the Nintendo DS, GBA, and Jakks Pacific custom hardware.
  • Developed stable memory architectures and loading patterns.
  • Developed localization engine.
  • Implemented Menus and in-game UI.
  • Integrated with publisher's localization pipelines.
  • Implemented hardware specific effects.
• 2005–2006
  Mathematician Intern at GizmoLabs
  • Invented a projection matrix that interpolates between perspective and orthographic display.
  • Reimplemented and extended the OpenGL graphics component of a simple woodworking CAD layout program.
• 2004–2005
  Programmer for LEEPS at UCSC
  • Developed client and server components for reasearch games.
  • Implemented java parser-evaluator for implementing game-rules.
  • Designed and developed a statemachine for managing server and client states.
• 1998–1999
  Audiovisual Consultant at Princeton Adult School
  • Delivered, cleaned up, and supported slide projectors.

Technologies

• Programming Languages
  C, C++, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Java, Bash, Batch, Objective-C, Scheme/Lisp, ML, Prolog. (Procedural, functional, and logical styles)
  Markup Languages/Encodings
  HTML, XML, TeX, CSS, JSON, CSV, HAML, Unicode
• Platforms
  Browsers: webkit (chrome, safari), gecko (firefox, netscape), trident (explorer)
  Embedded Systems: Nintedo DS, Nintendo GameBoy Advance, μ'nSP
  Operating Systems: Linux (POSIX), Mac OS9, OSX, Win2K/XP/Vista
  Hosting Services: Heroku, Github, Speedyrails
• Tools
  Version Control: Visual Source Safe, Subversion, Git
  Graphical UIs: Qt, HTML5
  IDEs: gcc+vim+make, Visual Studio, Metrowerks/Freescale, SN Systems, X-code
  Graphics: The GIMP, inkscape, UFRaw, Qtpfsgui
• Libraries/Frameworks
  Rails, jQuery, Windows API, libc, readline

Education

• BS in Computer Science, and a
• BA in Mathematics from University of California, Santa Cruz.