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Programming in JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Python, Django, Clojure, Haxe and many more
Running in production : Linux servers, AWS Cloud Development Kit, Docker, Nix, GitHub Actions
Senior skills : architecting a full stack monorepo for a SaaS, managing a small development team
Also interested in : perceptual color spaces, halftone generation for silk screen printing, e-book publishing, typesetting, audio programming
SA Inc. (2018–present)
Contractor at FieldChat Inc. (2018–2019)
Hired by founders as first programmer to turn a prototype into a minimum viable product
Constructed a Cordova-based build system targeting web, iOS and Android
Integrated many native app features such as push notification and local file access
SyntaxEnvy: procedurally generated syntax highlighting themes (2018)
Homepage: https://www.syntaxenvy.com/
Used HSLuv to create an algorithm for generating pleasing color palettes.
Used Chris Kempson's base16 to generate configurations for popular software.
Software Developer at DIVE Networks Inc. (2015–2020)
Used Django and SQL to model hardcoded customer data and place it into the database.
Used Clojure to build a backend for ingesting content from various sources: RSS, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram and others.
Developed a throttling system to maximize throughput while staying under third-party rate limits.
Developed a pipeline for transforming and feeding content to the company's browser-based application.
Teleport JSON Type System (2013–2016)
Homepage: http://www.teleport-json.org
Highly extensible JSON type and schema system
Useful for: serialization, data validation, auto-documenting API endpoints
Designed to be minimal and a natural extension of JSON
Has a strict specification to encourage porting
Colorspaces.js: JavaScript library (2013)
Software Developer at Elevate Inc. (2012–2014)
Used Python and JavaScript to work on a Django-backend, Backbone-frontend web application.
Implemented internal REST APIs using a Django-based library as well a library of own making, Cosmic .
Developed a highly space-efficient module for tracking email links.
Organizational work: automated deployment, centralized configuration management, containerization with Docker.
Cosmic high-level web API framework (2012–2015)
Homepage: http://cosmic.boronine.com
Started as a business venture with co-founder Kyu Lee .
A protocol based on best practices to enable auto-generated API clients that feel like native libraries.
Used in the wild at Elevate Inc.
The libraries are well tested and well documented
Frontend developer at Thoora Inc. (Summer 2011)
Used JavaScript, jQuery and PHP to help build a highly dynamic news aggregation website.
Worked tightly in an "agile" team of several programmers and a graphic designer.
Received an "outstanding" work term evaluation.
Medical Terminology Research Lead at Agfa Healthcare (Fall 2010)
Used supervised machine learning to build a system for normalizing data from radiology results.
Researched and implemented solutions from academic papers.
Used Java, MongoDB NoSQL database and Neo4J graph database. Worked with medical ontologies.
Showed great initiative, received an "excellent" work term evaluation.
Discipline: model versioning system for Django (2010)
Homepage: http://discipline.boronine.com
Developed an open source application for the Django platform that keeps track of modifications performed on the database and provides low-level interface for checking the states of objects at different points in time.
The project displays good programming style, appropriate code commenting, thorough unit testing and good documentation.
Libraro.net: library of texts in the Esperanto language (2009–present)
Homepage: http://www.libraro.net
Used Django to create a user-friendly website for online reading in Esperanto targeted at beginners; includes instant dictionary search.
Implemented an Esperanto dictionary back-end that knows how to split large words into smaller parts based on a list of Esperanto morphemes.
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