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Douglas J. Steinwand

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   Summary

• Software engineer and manger who has been solving interesting problems with distributed systems for more than 20 years
• Experience with planning, design, development, testing and maintenance of highly-available applications

   Skills

• Programming languages - C, Java, Perl, Python, Java, JavaScript, and SQL
• Databases - Cassandra, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Applications - Kibana, Grafana, Kafka, Logstash, and Git
• Web services - Perl mod_perl, Java Spring Boot
• System administration - Linux and FreeBSD
• Cloud computing - AWS, Docker, Terraform
• Machine learning - Vowpal Wabbit
• Team management - Onsite staff and remote contractors

   Professional Experience

• Lead Engineer at Ticketmaster; Los Angeles, CA
  June 2016 to Present
  • Lead Engineer
    • Team lead
    • Machine learning applications
    • Database applications
  
  
• Director, Back End Architecture at Connectivity, Inc.; Burbank, CA
  December 2013 to April 2016
  • Backend Perl developer
    • Software and schema design, coding, code review, and testing
    • Relational Databases - MySQL, PostgreSQL
    • NoSQL Databases - ElasticSearch, MongoDB
    • Message queues - Beanstalk, Gearman
    • Perl frameworks like DBIx::Class, Mojolicious and Moose
  
  
• Software Architect at Ticketmaster; Los Angeles, CA
  March 2001 to December 2013
  • Ticketmaster Online
    • Software design, coding, documentation, support, performance tuning, testing and debugging
    • Object-oriented model, view, controller (MVC) paradigm
    • Extensive experience with C, Apache, Perl and mod_perl applications on Linux
    • Schema design and application development using Oracle (including OCI and PL/SQL) and MySQL databases
    • Contributed to Open Source projects (Template Toolkit, mod_perl, curl)
  
  
• Application Engineer at eToys, Inc.; Santa Monica, CA
  May 1999 to March 2001
  • Website Engineering Group
    • Designed, implemented, tested, monitored, debugged and maintained applications for e-commerce
    • Experience with the Apache web server, various modules, and mod_perl
    • Contributed to Open Source projects (Apache Web Server, HTML::Template, Template Toolkit)
  
  
• Programmer/Analyst at Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA/Caltech; Pasadena, CA
  November 1996 to May 1999
  • Multimission Image Processing Lab
    • Administered a motley collection of UNIX and VMS-based computers, running SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x, Linux, IRIX, HPUX, and DEC VMS.
  • KidSat Data System Project (see EarthKAM)
    • This project allowed middle school students to request and view photographs taken by Space Shuttle.
    • Collaborated with JPL scientists and local high school students to design, maintain and enhance the KidSat website.
    • Recipient of the NASA Manned Space Flight Awareness Team Award as a member of the KidSat team.
    • Developed Perl and shell scripts using the NetPBM library and other tools for image processing and visualization.
    • Gave presentations to JPL visitors, NASA representatives and Shuttle astronauts.
  • Galileo Project
    • Provided support for the automation of real-time data processing.
    • Maintained existing and developed new applications to support science data processing for the Galileo Europa Mission (GEM).
  • Mars Pathfinder
    • Supported image processing and software development.

   Education

• California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
  1993 to 1997
  • Academic Degree: Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
  • Dean's List and President's Honor List

https://douglas.steinwand.org/

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