Summary of Qualifications

• Operating Systems: Linux (Debian/Ubuntu), Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
• Programming Languages: Java, C#, Python
• Web Languages: PHP, Python, MySQL, JavaScript (JQuery, YUI 3)
• Markup Languages: XML, HTML/XHTML, CSS

Education

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

• Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• B.ASc. in Computer Engineering, 2013 (expected)

The Woodlands School, Mississauga, ON, Canada

• Enhanced Learning Program for Gifted Students, Class of 2008
• Graduated with high honours, Ontario Scholar

Skills

Advanced knowledge of PHP 5 – (3 years)

• implemented customized framework in strict Model-View-Controller paradigm as currentPHPframeworks did not meet personal requirements
• able to write clean code, maximizing PHP 5's object-oriented capabilities
• ensure coding patterns are efficient and maintainable by programming orthogonally
• extensive use of libraries (standard library, Markdown, HTMLPurifier, custom ORM layer, etc)
• worked with MediaWiki, Joomla/Mambo, PHPBB, Wordpress, Drupal and various other PHPapplications

Advanced knowledge of web markup (XHTML/HTML, CSS2, JSON/XML) – (6 years)

• not only take pride in coding site designs as per modern web standards, but also in ensuring beauty through minimal, clean and semantic markup
• designed RESTfulweb APIs with responses in JSONand XMLdata formats

Intermediate knowledge of Sun Java (J2SE)– (3.5 years)

• used extensively in game production, using various graphics libraries (Graphics2D, LWJGL, Slick, JMonkeyEngine)
• hand coded user interfaces using Swing and have working knowledge of AWT GUI toolkits
• have used JDBC database adapter for storing data relationally through a Java interface
• event-based and polling methods of user input

Intermediate knowledge of relational databases (MySQL) – (2 years)

• extensively used SQL to query relational databases
• designed relational tables to best fit large datasets (metadata on books, user sessions, etc)

Intermediate knowledge of Python and C# – (1 year)

• Python used in a web development setting (webpy, Pylons, Django web frameworks)
• Python used for scripting (i.e. - scrape metadata from web pages)
• C# in ECE100 course
• C# used for writing a game data modeling tool

Working knowledge of JavaScript/AJAX

• implemented web based WYSIWYG editor for content management. Made use of JQuery to make page dynamic and AJAXutilities to asynchronously update database with new content.

Working knowledge of PCRE regular expressions

• have used extensively in PHP and Python (using Beautiful Soup library) for scraping metadata from html web pages and storing in relational database.

Working knowledge of Linux based web-servers (Debian, Ubuntu)

• have setup LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python) stack on personal Debian/Ubuntu servers
• experience in using various Apache modules using mod_rewrite in conjunction with htaccess files
• working knowledge of lighttpd server, used when server resources were limited

Experience using the following software:

• extensive knowledge of Windows O/S environment, and MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc)
• working knowledge of Linux O/S (Debian/Ubuntu)
• regularly use Photoshop 7-CS2 for basic photo manipulation and web-design slicing
• Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs used for Java and .NET programming respectively
• have used Dreamweaver for contract web work as required, however prefer using texteditor whenever possible for carefully hand-coded web markup
• SVN version control (2 years), Git version control (6 months)

Relevant Work Experience

Intern software developer

Yahoo! Inc., mobile team – May 2009 to August 2009

Software developer, Co-founder

Cyphon Technologies, http://www.cyphontech.com – November 2007 to Present

• Working with 3 software developers on education tools; specifically a platform for creation and collaboration of free electronic books
• Engineer solutions for creating usable, but scalable site.
• Experimenting with very novel database system (CouchDB) as well as using traditional RDBMS (MySQL)
• Was accepted into the Velocity Mobile+Media Incubator program at the University of Waterloo to continue work on main project

Contract Java game/web developer

September 2008 to January 2009

• DragonWars.net, online game and website
• One of two contract developers working on the game. Solely in charge of website and its interaction with the game.
• Used JDBC driver for MySQL to store game data on the server.

Projects Manager

September 2006 to October 2007

• UWStudios game development, http://www.uwstudios.com
• In charge of 25 game developers (many industry professionals). Oversaw entire development pipeline from concept to in-game assets for two 3D games. Garnered attention of acquisition department at Codemasters, USA. 3 lead artists on the team gained their first art jobs in the game industry partially as a result of their work on the games.

Freelance web developer

January 2007 to Present

• Developed mostly small-medium portfolio sites for various clients

Awards and Scholarships

• Merit entrance scholarship, University of Waterloo