Resume for Adam Derewecki

derewecki-resume.txt

                        A D A M   D E R E W E C K I
1200 Sacramento St. Apt 405, San Francisco, CA 94108                740-502-3073
[email protected]                                           github.com/derwiki

               == P R O F E S S I O N A L   E X P E R I E N C E ==
CameraLends, Founder/CEO and Engineer (1/2013 - Present)
 * Hackers and Founders startup incubator participant
 * Tech stack: Rails 4.2/Bootstrap/jQuery/Heroku
 * Integrated: Facebook Login, Twitter, Twilio, Sift Science, Slack, Google
     Geocoder, Segment, Asana, Intercom, oLark, Zendesk
 * Bootstrapped
 
Everlane, Senior Engineering Contractor (6/2015 - Present)
 * Built bridge app from Segment event webhook to Redshift
 * Built "data pipelines" app to load data from various APIs into Redshift
 * Built bulk geocoder github.com/derwiki/rails-geocoder
 * Built A/B testing frameworks for product images and prices
 * Built admin site framework replacement for Typus
 * Standardized deploy process
 
AdRoll, Senior Engineering Contractor (1/2015 - 5/2015)
 * Built github.com/derwiki/web-page-test-dashboard to regularly measure
   front-end performance
 * Lead pair programming rotation with a dozen junior engineers
 * Fixed bugs and delivered features for Facebook API integration and
   AdRoll customer dashboard
 * Presented at Learning Lunches:
   - github.com/derwiki/presentation-seo
   - github.com/derwiki/presentation-git
   - github.com/derwiki/presentation-rails
   
ApartmentList, Director of Web Engineering (4/2013 - 12/2013)
 * Management
   - managed team of four Rails engineers on Heroku stack
   - scaled site to handle 2x traffic
 * Open Source
   - released github.com/apartmentlist/h, `heroku-shortcuts` gem
   
Causes, Hacker (3/2011 - 2/2013)
 * Web Development
   - team lead for Causes 2.0 relaunch, infrastructure teams
   - made first responsive mobile site for hackathon
   - upgraded site from Rails 2.1 to 2.3 to 3.0 to 3.2
   - used jQuery, HAML, SASS
   - Custom Facebook OpenGraph integration
   - ported Facebook Canvas pages to Facebook Connect
   - created causes.com/livepulse, a Reddit like interface into actions
 * Dev Ops
   - consolidated sharded tables into one 500m row table
   - performed database failovers and restorations
   - used PXEBoot to re-image twenty machines found in colo
 * Open Source
   - created github.com/causes/suggestomatic
     - exchange.causes.com/2011/07/causes-tech-a-recommendation-engine-that-could
   - minor feature to github.com/causes/duckweed
   - upgraded Mockr to Rails 3 causes.github.com/mockr
   - styling to github.com/causes/presentation-template
   - bug fixes to github.com/causes/stars-causes
   - fast git-aware deploy github.com/causes/git_deploy
     - exchange.causes.com/2011/08/causes-tech-git-aware-code-deployment
 * Recruiting
   - resume and code screening
   - phone screens, onsite whiteboarding, onsite/remote code-pairing
 * Selected blog posts and speaking engagements
   - derwiki.tumblr.com/post/24490758395/loading-half-a-billion-rows-into-mysql
   - derwiki.tumblr.com/post/28038287010/upgrading-a-rails-2-1-app-to-3-2
   
Yelp, Technical Lead (9/2010 - 3/2011)
 Responsibilities
 * architectural oversight for Internal Applications and Biz teams
 * roadmap planning for Internal Applications team
 * phone screenings, reviewed sample code, onsite interviews for candidates
 * college recruiting trips and campus tech talks
 Projects
 * GearMail, fully parallelized batch email senders using python-gearman
 * contributed patches to Yelp open source project, python-mrjob
Yelp, Software Engineer (5/2009 - 9/2010)
 Responsibilities
  * batch email sending infrastructure, scaling and reliability
  * bug fixes, support, feature enhancements for internal facing web apps
 Projects
  * added auto-generated relevant special offers to Weekly Yelp newsletter
  * refactored Weekly Yelp editor for better reliability and performance
  * editor and rendering infrastructure for Your Business on Yelp newsletter
  * general purpose 'email blaster' utility for one-off mass emails
  * Weekly Yelp metrics dashboard showing open and click through rates
 Technologies
  * Python 2.5.4 for batch jobs, logic, and servlets
  * JavaScript, Prototype for interactive web pages
  * MySQL, SQLAlchemy for abstracting queries
  * git for version control and code deployment
  * Nagios alerts for monitoring systems
 Yelp Open Source Technologies
  - github.com/yelp
  * python-gearman for distributed, fault-tolerant work queues
  * python-mrjob for MapReduce jobs
  
IBM, Software Engineer (2/2008 - 5/2009)
 - Silicon Valley Lab, San Jose, CA
 DB2 XML Runtime, Storage, and Distributed Locking Teams
 * systems level C programming for pureXML
 * debugged defects using TotalView, gdb, stack traces, and flowtrace files
 
IBM, Extreme Blue Intern (5/2007 - 8/2007)
 - Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
 * research project 'Archimedes', automated correlation spreadsheet repository
 * worked on small team to take project from idea to working prototype
 
                         == E D U C A T I O N ==
B.S.E. Computer Engineering, Cum Laude (8/2003 - 12/2007)
 - Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
 
                        == A C T I V I T I E S ==
Photography, camping, yoga, acroyoga, )'(, rock climbing, snowboarding
Eagle Scout (2001)