Experience

Goals

  • To build tools that help other people work better and faster
  • To write well documented code that answers questions before they are asked
  • To achieve fluency in the Japanese Language

Work History

LINE Fukuoka

May 2016 - Current

Upsight

September 2011 - December 2014

Analytics and marketing platform for web & mobile app developers.

Development VM Environment

Starting from an original version created out of fabric and shell scripts, and transitioning to a version using saltstack, built a developer environment to collapse the major parts of Kontagent’s infrastructure into a single virtual machine for development.

Tools Used

Testing and Release Engineering

Took over and expanded TeamCity testing environment configuring it to handle a majority of different components across the Kontagent stack. Built tooling to better link Atlassian tools to a git-flow workflow

Tools Used

Production Automation

  • Expanded the tools used with the development environment, lead the conversion of many of the remaining systems to be deployed using configuration management.
  • Lead cross-engineering training to ensure each engineering team had a primary “automation” contact to assist teams in placing all systems under configuration management.

Tools Used

Legacy Support

Supported legacy ETL systems by improving error handling and monitoring

Tools Used:

WeGame.com

March 2008 - August 2011

A social platform for gamers, which allowed them to build a gamer-social-and-interest graph through other users’ recommendations

At WeGame I was the lead web engineer where my responsibilities covered work on the main web site, media processing system, and server infrastructure .

  • Worked with other developers to rewrite entire WeGame site which was launched in November 2008 using the Kohana framework
  • Wrote core of video processing system and continue to maintain media processing infrastructure using Python and FFMpeg
  • Wrote system for deploying code to remote servers using subversion then switching to git
  • Wrote admin system used by staff to control various aspects of running WeGame.com
  • Configuration and management of servers used to run WeGame (Web, Database, Media, Utility)

Tools Used

  • PHP
  • Python
  • MySQL
  • jQuery
  • FFMpeg
  • SphinxSE
  • Nagios
  • Git
  • Mac OS X
  • RHEL 5

Department of Soil Science - North Carolina State University

May 2005 - August 2007

While studying Computer Science at North Carolina State University, I worked for the Department of Soil Science in their Distance Education office. My responsibilities were balanced between general system support for students and faculty, and other assorted computer tasks.

  • Configured and supported Windows workstations (2000, XP) for Faculty and Students
  • Configured and maintained Linux file server, web server, and domain server (samba, apache, ldap)
  • Updated and maintained department and faculty web sites (php, mysql)

Tools Used

  • PHP
  • Xen
  • Samba
  • Ldap
  • Windows XP
  • Fedora Linux

Education

Fukuoka YMCA

April 2015 - Present

Japanese course

Genki JACS

January 2015 - March 2015

Short term Japanese course

Department of Computer Science - North Carolina State University

August 2005 - December 2007

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science

Awards / Qualifications

  • Japanese Language Proficiency Test N2 - July 2015
  • Eagle Scout - Boy Scouts of America - February 2003