WordPress Developer
11.2020 - 11.2022 |Online Freelance Platform
WordPress, APIs, Web Security, PHP Performance
-Vetted as one of 800 WordPress developers through a number of skill tests.
-Completed over 30 premium projects with a five-star rating.
-Helped solve challenges that nobody solved before.
Chief Technical Officer
11.2015 - 11.2021 |Pressjitsu, Inc.
WordPress, Python, Web Security, Automation, Performance
-Developed one of the most groundbreaking managed WordPress hosting providers for its time.
-Authored countless performance plugins and web services for WordPress sites.
-Managed a team of developers to rewrite the platform from the ground up on AWS. Sold the company in 2021.
Lead Developer
11.2014 - 11.2018 |Festivus Games, LLC
Python, MySQL, PHP, WordPress
Built data scrapers and data transformation scripts.
-Rewrote all major functionality with speed and scalability in mind and deployed version control protocols.
-Administrated and managed server infrastructure and application profiling.
-Provided on-call support during events at peak traffic with nearly 300 active visitors.
-Developed data processing and reporting back end.
Lead Back-end and Systems Engineer
11.2014 - 11.2021 |Pressjitsu, Inc.
Rust, Munin, Nagios, MySQL, NGINX, Bash, Python, PHP
-Provisioned, automated, and monitored Linux servers.
-Profiled performance of PHP web applications using xhprof and XDebug.
-Wrote a custom full-page caching PHP module in PHP and C.
-Conducted security audits and incident investigations.
-Created a custom IRC logger in Rust after setting up IRC and ZNC.
-Wrote and optimized a CDN proxy in Python that compresses JPEG and PNG images, concatenates CSS and JavaScript files, and minifies them.
Systems Administrator
11.2013 - 11.2018 |Okmgn
OwnCloud, Linux, WordPress
-Set up the physical IT infrastructure using Linux-based operating systems, including Android tablets and video monitoring.
-Created a WordPress website with a student section where tutors can post assignments, grades, and more with a complex system of taxonomies to separate student groups, identities, and roles.
-Set up and maintained own cloud with synchronization against WordPress user accounts and advanced access control.
-Provided remote and on-site technical support for all IT systems.
-Facilitated student password generation, reset on a per-semester basis using a custom CSV import system.
Python Developer
11.2012 - 11.2014 |Ttwick
PostgreSQL, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python
-Worked with natural language processing of scraped web and API data using Python.
-Taught one-on-one lessons in statistical analysis using iPython Notebooks and various statistical libraries for Python.
-Normalized highly erratic data acquired with scraping utilities.
-Developed nearly a dozen specialized multi-threaded long-running scrapers in Python using Lxml.
-Exposed scraped data via RESTful and simpler APIs used by a larger PHP application that does analytics and NLP on social media data.
Mobile Platform Developer
11.2012 - 11.2014 |Appception, Inc.
Objective-C, iOS, x64 Assembly, C, Java, Android
-Modified the Android kernel, mainly using Webview.so dynamic WebKit library.
-Developed hybrid mobile applications.
-Audited blackbox security of a PHP back-end.
-Reverse engineered Apple's CodeSigner binary (and open source code) and implementation in cross-platform Java code using Bouncy Castle cryptography library.
-Conducted AWS provisioning, configuration, and maintenance.
Web Developer
11.2011 - 11.2015 |Image Innovators
Facebook API, WordPress, JavaScript, PHP
-Added single sign-on for WordPress across sites.
-Created various fashion calculators and tests as Facebook Apps in JavaScript with PHP back-ends.
-Conducted whitebox security auditing, finding several critical issues that allowed arbitrary code execution.
-Executed performance profiling and optimization, improving PHP web application speed by over 80%.
-Developed countless plugins to provide various site features.
Web Developer
11.2010 - 11.2015 |MUU
WordPress, PrestaShop, PHP
-Forked and maintained a Prestashop version with item leasing functionality, analytics, and tracking.
-Wrote several external API clients for invoicing, shipping, and payment for Prestashop.
-Managed a VPS with LEMP stack.
-Created several WordPress sites with multi-language support.
-Released an open-source custom shipping plugin for Prestashop.
Intern Developer
11.2010 - 11.2010 |Parkflyer
QTWebKit, Django, lxml, Python
-Implemented several scrapers for product websites and generated XML output for further processing.
-Conducted performance profiling and optimization of back-end and front-end.
-Worked with preemptive threading using Python generators as co-routines.
-Researched and consulted on multilingual interfaces and helped design user-submitted translation API drafts.
-Developed an automated cart processing and order forming robot using Python QtWebKit for third-party sites.
