résumé
OBJECTIVE
| Looking for some kind of heart inside this great machine. |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Mozilla |
Web Developer, 01/12 - present Working with the Sync team In the years between YouTube and Firefox I did many wonderful things including: built a sustainable house built an SSH client written in Javascript traveled the world (Japan, South Korea, Ireland, Germany, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Denmark) helped a woman escape a fire built a 'federated social web'-powered blog learned French learned how to make a pretty mean cupcake :P (also, 2011 was mostly spent waiting for the Firefox job to begin, I began interviewing in March and didn't start working until the following January...) |
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YouTube
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Web Developer, 09/07 - 04/10 Maintained the watch page, viewed well over 2 billion times a day Spearheaded campaign to drop IE6 support Implemented measures to reduce front-end latency by more than 50% Worked in a loving environment Main accomplishments: - front-end lead on watch page - front-end lead on browse and search pages - reduced latency saved 35% in inbound traffic - reduced thumbnail traffic by 15% - reduced watch page size by 28% - front-end lead on 'watch v.4' project, tighter design - front-end lead on 'watch 960', widening the entire site - front-end lead on 'watch v.5' project, complete redesign of video page - front-end lead on experimental AJAX watch page - mass reorganization of CSS/JS files and content |
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FireFTP |
Creator of project, self-employed, 07/04 - present The free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox Charityware that's been downloaded more than 20 million times A small testament to the open source movement |
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FireSSH |
Creator of project, self-employed, 12/10 - present The free, secure, cross-platform SSH terminal client for Mozilla Firefox Written entirely in Javascript! Based off of the Python project paramiko |
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Hello, world. |
Creator of project, self-employed, 07/11 - present Federated social web tumblr/blog/RSS reader/wordpress-like thingy :) Passes swat0! Powers this blog you're reading A work in progress! |
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The Rock Hard Times |
Creator of project, self-employed, 09/06 - 04/08 A comprehensive, user-editable site for all things music Only the most rockin' music database ever invented |
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Mozdev Group |
Software Engineer, 01/06 - 08/06 Worked with a tightly integrated team developing custom browser distributions and plugins based on the world-class Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird projects Developed in C++, XUL, Javascript, XBL, and related Mozilla technologies Learned cross-platform software developing techniques (Windows, Linux) Clients included: Earthlink, Linspire, Angelsoft |
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Rho Trading and Securities |
Software Engineer, 02/05 - 12/05 Co-developed an in-house trading application written in C#/C++ Wrote many GUI applications that perform various tasks on the trading platform Wrote library using an API to connect to a trading exchange Acquired knowledge of working on a large-scale, multi-threaded .NET project |
DEFUNCT/RANDOM PROJECTS (or how I learned to stop worrying and learn from my failures)
| AIMfire |
A free, cross-platform AIM client for Mozilla Firefox |
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The Largest River |
A stripped-down, minimalistic Amazon.com store |
FORMAL EDUCATION
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B.A. in Computer Science 4.0 GPA, Summa Cum Laude Minor in Physics Ball State University, Muncie, IN 2002-2004 |
SKILLS
| Languages | Javascript, HTML/XML, XUL, Python, Cheetah, PHP, C#, C/C++, Java |
| Systems | Mac OS X, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian), Windows, FreeBSD |
| Spoken Languages | English (Fluent), Croatian (Fluent), French (Learning!), Spanish (Proficient) |
INTERESTS
| Volunteer |
During summers, help take care of children from an orphanage in
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Proceeds from the FireFTP project go towards helping out this particular orphanage Supporter of LGBT rights: proceeds from the FireFTP project also go towards helping things get better in the U.S, Croatia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina Built a natural cob home on Pine Ridge Reservation to help foster community and sustainable living Worked in Trsteno, Croatia to help restore an arboretum destroyed by a fire Worked at Habitat for Humanity Helped out at Free Geek , an organization dedicated to recycling and refurbishing used computer systems |
| Musician | Tamburica player (for Croatian musical ensemble in Chicago) |
| Photographer | Work showcased on personal website |