For decades, I have been bending computers to my will
(programming them).
Work
Consulting Software Engineer, Aaron Rice
Consulting, Portland, OR (2013-present)
- Consulted for a stealth ed-tech startup, a dental equipment
manufacturer, a web dev agency, and more.
- Developed and programmed a consumer product using Python,
Linux, MIDI ports, WiFi control, SQLite, HTTP RPC on SBCs.
- Handled all web backend work for Sitecore CMS websites.
- Set up Jenkins and created CI/CD pipelines.
Senior Software Engineer, Standard Cognition,
San Francisco, CA (2019-2022)
- Led engineering tracking for a computer vision product.
- Wrote a new test harness for a 20x speedup, improving
development velocity.
- Optimized legacy codebase for a 10x speedup.
- Helped applied mathematicians translate their expertise to
Rust code.
- Added performance and reliability monitoring.
- Supported deployments and worked on-call to debug production
issues.
- Used Rust, Python, Docker, nix, GCP, Linux, macOS
Senior Software Engineer, Oblong Industries,
Los Angeles, CA (2016-2019)
- Built and maintained 3D rendering software, in a bespoke
distributed environment.
- Benchmarked, profiled, and optimized our apps to hit 60
FPS.
- Wrote 2D & 3D geometric types and intersection
testing.
- Debugged and improved internal libraries and tools.
- Used C++, GLSL, C, Python, Docker, Linux, macOS
Software Engineer, Connective DX, Portland, OR
(2008-2013)
- Worked for Oregon Health & Science University, Genzyme,
KinderCare, City of Cambridge, and more.
- Handled almost all web backend work, including development,
deployment, and debugging.
- Reverse-engineered and patched vendor code to save a project
under a tight deadline.
- Used C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Sitecore, Windows
Projects
Principal Developer, .NET Pad (2009-2018)
- Website that compiled, safely ran, and shared users’ code
submissions.
- Used .NET Framework’s Code Access Security to sandbox
malicious submissions.
- Used C#, ASP.NET, SQLite.
School
B.S. in Computer Science from Oregon State
University (2008)
B.S. in Mathematics from Oregon State
University (2008)
Undergraduate Research at Oregon State
University (2007 - 2008)
- Fundamentals of machine learning and reinforcement
learning.