I am a software engineer passionate about crafting high-quality solutions that fulfill customer requirements. My forte is server-side development, but I am comfortable on the front end as well. The field is continually evolving, which dovetails nicely with my enjoyment of life-long learning.
In my spare time, I enjoy working on personal coding projects, a few of which I have open sourced. Reading, computer games and dabbling with electronics also find their way into the mix.
A cross-platform, pre-alpha nuget package to parse git-like command-line options. Works reasonably well, especially when using an IoC container. Needs a few bugfixes and improved help pages before it could be taken out of pre-alpha.
A static web-site generator, ala Jekyll, Pelican, etc. The goal of this one (vs the plethora of existing solutions) is better LaTex math support. Recently restarted to look at alternate markdown parsers.
A stalled project with the noble goal of performing a diff on structured data. It was born out of a desire to validate a release candidate REST API against the current production version to flag any differences.
Implemented a proof-of-concept for storing end-of-day market data in the cloud (both Amazon and Google), using Spark, Storm, Kafka, RabbitMQ, BigTable, Cassandra and Redis. Attempted to extend it to intraday (tick-level) data and the architecture was able to scale to that level, but the bandwidth costs were prohibitive.
In two weeks, as part of a cross-functional team, designed and built a reference architecture for news alerts in the cloud using Amazon Kinesis, ElasticSearch, Lambda and SNS.
To provide interactive stock charts on all Dow Jones web sites, designed and implemented a service called Michelangelo that gathers and caches the data required for the charts and exposes it via a REST API. Implemented a JavaScript library to wrap a third-party chart library for the client-side chart rendering. The service is written in C# using ASP.Net/MVC. It also has a number of admin and test pages, written using AngularJS.
Designed and implemented a system to fetch, load and store world-wide stock listings, corporate actions, fundamentals and historical end-of-day pricing. The database has over 1 billion rows across 600+ tables and delivers millisecond response times to millions of website-initiated queries per day. The system was completed in six months, enabling Dow Jones to switch data vendors, saving millions of dollars per year.
For real-time updates to stock quotes, headlines and stories on Dow Jones web sites, designed and implemented the server for a long-poll ajax solution using C#. The system handled over 100,000 simultaneous users and thousands of requests per second. Prior to the availability of network-level connection affinity, it scaled using peer-to-peer communication between server instances.
Using C# 1.1, re-implemented 20+ Visual Basic news feeds by creating common components that were assembled into a pipeline architecture. The system handles both incoming and outgoing feeds 24x7, using HTML, XML and flat-file formats over HTTP, FTP and TCP/IP protocols. It has been upgraded and expanded, but the core is still in use, nearly 13 years later.
As technical lead of a small team, designed and implemented a cross-platform graphical fiber-optic tracking system. The GUI was written in C++ and ran on Windows and Solaris. The data was stored in Sybase or SQL/Anywhere databases, depending on customer scale requirements.
Redesigned and implemented a fuel site communication server using C and INGRES in a VAX/VMS environment. Implemented a vehicle management system using INGRES 4GL and forms.
Developed sales and marketing applications in INGRES ESQL/C in a VAX/VMS environment. Migrated applications from 1022 to INGRES. Provided direction to two Programmers.
Specified, designed, implemented, documented, and supported a parts list (bill of materials) system in INGRES EQUEL/Pascal in a VAX/VMS environment. Developed and presented training classes. Designed and implemented software development and configuration management tools.
Designed and built a high-speed DMA interface for a PDP-11/70 minicomputer. Developed interface software in FORTH.
