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William Thompson
Senior Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington - dietbuddha@gmail.com

SUMMARY

I am a decisive, results-oriented senior software engineer with twelve years in software engineering. My experience includes creating scalable server-side web software, ETL tools, configuration management, automation, and continuous integration. I develop on different Unix environments as well as mixed Unix and Windows environments. As a team lead, I focus on quality, automation, and collaboration. I am a strong communicator, interacting directly with customers and business owners.

LANGUAGES AND PLATFORMS

  • Perl,
  • Javascript, Ruby, Python,
  • Java,
  • C,
  • C++,
  • sh,
  • make,
  • scons,
  • Rake,
  • FreeBSD,
  • OpenBSD,
  • Debian,
  • CentOS,
  • Oracle,
  • MySQL,
  • SQL,
  • Rails,
  • mod_perl

EXPERIENCE

Senior Systems Engineer, Disney, Seattle, WA (06/15/2009-present)

  • TBD

Software Engineer, CarDomain, Inc, Seattle, WA (09/07/2005-06/12/2009)

  • Developed software in Perl (mod_perl), Ruby (Rails), Javascript, Rake, Java and sh on CentOS using the Agile Methodology.
  • Development platform: Linux (RedHat, Fedora, CentOS), MySQL, Oracle, Apache, mod_perl, Rails.
  • Lead on numerous projects where I:
    • Collaborated with business owners on requirements
    • Performed due diligence on technology choices, designs, and risk mitigation
    • Facilitated communication between technical and non-technical people
    • Involved throughout the entire project lifecycle.
  • Initiated, lead and managed many infrastructure projects such as continuous integration, toolchain project, application config simplification, etc.
  • Lead and managed many user facing projects such as Groups Bulletins, Related Rides, Ajax Webservices Framework, etc.
  • Integration with many third party services using different technologies. ie. (SOAP, REST, Javascript)
  • Created analytical and functional tests to improve code quality.
  • Drove the creation of development sandboxes which helped to streamline development.
  • Mentored and collaborated with the other developers.
  • Numerous changes which lead to more efficient development as well as increased product performance.
  • Identified and resolved issue which accounted for ~15% load savings across the database, all webservers, and total network traffic.
  • Identified and resolved numerous issues which impacted uptime or response times.
  • Created mod_perl REST consumers for Rails REST services and vice-versa.

Contractor, Isilon Corporation, Inc 04/05/2005

  • Updated website per business requirements.

Contractor, Isilon Corporation, Inc 08/02/04 - 09/19/04

  • Evaluated existing templating solutions to address business problem.
  • Designed and implemented a light-weight templating system.

Lead Tools Engineer, Coco Corporation, Inc, Seattle, WA (07/02/2004-09/03/2005)

  • Developed software in C++, Python, scons and sh on Linux x86, Linux ARM, Windows XP, and Windows CE.
  • Development platforms: Linux (Debian), Windows NT, GCC, Python, Visual Studio cl.exe
  • Lead a team of 3 people.
  • Wrote business case proving importance of configuration management in the build system.
  • Created an auditable, multiplatform build system for C++ and Python on:
    • Windows XP
    • Windows CE
    • Linux X86
    • Linux ARM
  • Made the developer builds a variant of the integration build.
  • Managed the toolchains for all 4 platforms.
  • Automatic provisioning and performance testing.
  • Maintained in-house repository.

Contractor, CarDomain 01/24/04 - 03/01/04

  • Extended functionality of Mantis a PHP based bug tracking system.

Contractor, CarDomain 11/01/03 - 12/01/03

  • Setup and demonstrated Bugzilla, showing features and limitations.

Development Support Engineer, Isilon Corporation, Seattle, WA (07/01/2001-07/01/2004)

  • Developed software in Perl, sh, and make on FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
  • Operating platforms: OpenBSD, FreeBSD.
  • Solely responsible for all IT and Helpdesk tasks for first 2 years.
  • Created automatic provisioning process for test machines.
  • Extension, maintenance, and troubleshooting of build system (FreeBSD).
  • Redesigned and maintained network topology.
  • Creation and maintenance firewall, corporate webserver, intranet, bug tracking software, cvs repository and backups.
  • Creation and management of numerous internal tools and scripts: build scripts, monitoring scripts, boot floppy installs, reports (histograms) of bug/build and build/performance.
  • Evaluation and ordering of lab equipment(remote power/kvm/serial, racks, cabling, etc).
  • Setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting of all hardware (servers, switches, etc).
  • Maintenance and troubleshooting of all IT services (mail, ssh, dhcp, dns, etc).
  • Design, creation and editing of intranet.
  • Grew and managed the machine room to over 300 machines.
  • Came up with unique cabling solution to address switch testing.
  • Managed relationships with various hardware and service vendors.

Lead Software Engineer, iSyndicate Corporation - San Francisco, CA (03/01/1999-04/01/2001)

  • Lead team of 3 people.
  • Developed software in Perl, Java and PHP on Solaris and Linux.
  • Design and implementation of back-end of data warehouse.
  • CGI/JSP programming in Apache with mod_perl, PHP, and Resin with Weblogic.
  • Maintenance and administration of revision control system (Accurev).
  • Maintenance and administration of MySQL database.
  • Schema design and creation on Oracle and MySQL.
  • Evaluated configuration management software.
  • Tagging and making releases.
  • Installation and maintenance of software packages.
  • Monitored production MySQL server and web servers.
  • Maintained web reports.

Software Engineer, Cogit Corporation, San Francisco, CA (07/01/1997-02/01/1999)

  • Developed software in C++, Perl and make on AIX and Solaris.
  • Programming in C++ with a strong emphasis on portability and maintainability.
  • Programming in Perl using Object Oriented methodology to create prototype web interface.
  • Installing STL-port for cxx(DEC), gcc(DEC & Solaris), CC(Sparcworks).
  • Modified STLPort to work with additional compilers.
  • Handled the migration from gcc 2.7 to gcc 2.8 without interrupting day-to-day development.
  • Maintenance and development of automated build system.
  • Administration of the bug tracking system.
  • Helped to build an ETL tool for POS data.

Engineering Aide, The Center for EUVE(Extreme Ultra-Violet Explorer) Astrophysics (02/1996-06/1997)

  • Design website for the internal testbed group.
  • Created CGI programs in Perl and C.
  • Light administration responsibilities on an SGI Indigo 2.
  • Helping coworkers with program maintenance, specifically in C.

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, Cognitive Science BA. wih a Minor in Philosophy, graduated 1996


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