Self-Employed

Freelancer (March 2020 - September 2022; February 2024 - present)

• Short-term contracting
• System design consulting
• Open-source volunteer work
• Tutoring junior programmers and coding bootcamp initiates

Tlon (link)

Runtime Engineer (October 2022 - Present)

• Nock runtime environment (Vere, Ares) design and development
• Urbit virtual machine (Arvo) design and development

LinkedIn (link)

Sr. Software Engineer (December 2017 - February 2020)

• Senior member of the "AI Algorithms Foundation" team
• Tech lead for Photon ML open-source library

Software Engineer (January 2016 - November 2017)

• Junior member of the "Machine Learning Algorithms" team
• Worked as a developer and support for ML tools at LinkedIn:
  • Apache Spark
  • Apache Hadoop
  • XGBoost

Software Engineer Intern (August 2013 - December 2013)

• Intern member of the "Search, Network, and Analytics" team
• Worked on libraries for performing machine learning in Apache Hadoop:
  • Data summarization
  • Anomaly detection
  • Evaluation metrics computation

Links

• My presentation at KDD 2016
• Patents to which I contributed while at LinkedIn

Side Effects Software (link)

Intern (April 2014 - December 2014)

• Worked on support for the Alembic file format in Houdini:
  • Reading/writing NURBS curves/surfaces
  • Calculating/storing visibility information
  • Developing a system for reading, modifying, and writing geometry transformation hierarchies
  • Converting Autodesk Maya camera objects to Houdini camera objects

Links

• My name in the credits for Houdini
• My former boss Mark Elendt receiving his fourth Academy Award of Merit from Patrick Stewart

Tagged (link)

Software Engineering Intern (January 2013 - April 2013)

• Intern member of the "Relevance" team
• Developed scripts to process large volumes of data to create training datasets for Data Scientists (training models, manual exploration, etc.)
• Developed tools to view, score, and compare results from multiple deployed models
• Scripting "handyman" for the Data Scientists and Data Engineers

Links

• Web archive link to a blog post about my time as an intern at Tagged

University of Waterloo (link)

Bachelor's Degree, Honours Computer Science with Distinction (September 2010 - August 2015)

Skills

Technical Skills

• C family
  • C, C++
• JVM family
  • Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy
• Rust
• Apache Spark
• Apache Hadoop
• Full Urbit stack
  • Nock, Hoon, Arvo, Gall
• Git
• Bash
• Linux
• macOS

Languages

• English
• Russian
• French