Software Engineer
google.com
- Present
Google Broadcast Player, Team Lead (present) - Helped create in-house video-on-demand platform.
Google Video Conferencing, Platform Team (2 yrs.) - Wrote software to maintain in-house VC hardware.
Google Broadcast Player, Team Lead (present) - Helped create in-house video-on-demand platform.
Google Video Conferencing, Platform Team (2 yrs.) - Wrote software to maintain in-house VC hardware.
Rotation (5 mos.) while working at Google through Google in Residence program
Designed curriculum and taught Intro to Computer Science virtually to 135 students, and managed 4 TAs
Internal Tools Team (9 mos.) - Building lean projects for internal clients using Django & Node
Infrastructure Team (6 mos.) - Contributed to completion of multi-service invoicing system
Lead instructor of full-time 12 week full-stack JavaScript web development course
Created curriculum, led classes, and managed up to three assistants
Growth team - Full stack PHP & JavaScript development
Engineer on dating app AYI, engineering lead on The Grade for Android
Shipping team - Full stack PHP & JavaScript development
Worked with a team to handle shipping label generation, address validation, etc.
Tutored students in math, English, and programming (Python)
Worked with a team to create Schoolzilla, a test-score reporting application for California charter schools
Salesforce app decelopment using APEX and JavaScript
Worked with IT department to maintain the student website, including the campus map
Wrote technical articles and drew comic strips for student-run newspaper, The Lawrentian
Worked on a team to create the Mosaic Carbon Accounting application using PHP and ExtJS
Web development in PHP, JavaScript, and Adobe Flash with MySQL
Co-author on a federally-funded report on GPS-III ground latency using Java
Freelance web development, tutoring, and A/V (event recording and streaming)
Attended 12-week “writers workshop for programmers” (yet so much more!) in NYC
Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics/Computer Science. Final Project: PHP blogging platform
Bachelor’s Degree in English. Final Project: Creative Writing Portfolio
Voting member of organizing board for !!Con and !!Con West
“Radically inclusive” technology conference in NYC about the joy, surprise and excitement of computing
Technical Mentor & Interview Practice Provider at Pursuit code bootcamp -
Teacher at School for Human Rights through TEALSk12 - -
Wrote 50k words in one month to complete National Novel Writing Month
2008: YA fantasy, 2016: Sci-fi/magical realism, 2018: Data structures textbook
Worked with teams to create games for 72-hour online game jam Ludum Dare
… Storyteller and GM for tabletop role-playing games since ca. 2000
… Organizer assistant for Women and Identity in Gaming Symposium
… Founded a video, board, and tabletop gaming club at Lawrence University, ended up with a 23-bed house on campus!
Personal references available on request