Aaron Evans :: Resume

I'm a software developer with experience in the design and implementation of back-end software systems. I'm most comfortable building HTTP-based services using Atom, Squid, memcached, MySQL, and/or Lucene. I'm skilled at identifying architectural problems in systems and advocating and implementing practical solutions.

Work Experience

Amazon Web Services

Software Developement Engineer 2009-present

Inrastructure Automation

Designing and maintaing systems and tools to manage Amazon's infrastructure.

Comcast Interactive Media

Sr. Software Developer 2009

Designed a system for storing user data for comcast.net and fancast.com users using sharded MySQL instances.
Implemented RESTful service in Java with an interface based on the OpenSocial Data Server API.

Software Developer 2006-2009

Atom Services

Defined Atom data models to syndicate an entertainment database to internal partners.
Wrote service framework using a hybrid of Abdera and Google's Java GData client.
Wrote several canonical Atom services.
Designed load-test plan and performed load tests.

Content Management

Supported a homegrown CMS that publishes content for comcast.net and fancast.com; the system's primary technologies are OSGi, MySQL, Lucene, and XQuery.
Added features to support new product requests.
Led initiative to decompose CMS into independent RESTful components.
Responded to production issues.

Bristol Capital, Inc

Software Developer 2005-2006

Wrote software to parse and store telephone switch data using Cocoa and PostgreSQL.
Wrote software that generates XML content and PDF graphs for use in a DocBook workflow.
Modified an open-source Quartz graphing framework written in Objective-C. Improved the appearance of graphs and added features to the framework.
Optimized SQL queries.
Rewrote a PowerPlant application using Cocoa/Objective-C++. The application is used to remotely reprogram Nortel telephone switches.
Maintained a PostgreSQL database. Setup backup scripts, designed schemas, and resolved performance problems.

University of Pennsylvania

Research Assistant/Ph.D. Student 2002-2005

Performed research tasks related to programming support for embedded wireless devices.
Wrote network simulations using Python.
Assisted undergraduates with projects related to embedded devices programming.
Wrote reviews of academic papers for conferences.
Passed all written preliminary exams.

Education

University of Pennsylvania
Degree: Master of Arts and Science (December 2003)
Major: Computer Science
GPA: 3.72

Villanova University
Degree: Bachelor of Science and Engineering (May 2002)
Major: Computer Engineering
GPA: 3.54
Senior Project: A Nintendo emulator written in Java

Relevant Skills

Significant experience with:

Java	Subversion/CVS	Bash	PostgreSQL
Objective-C	Cocoa	XQuery	Python
C	Unix	MySQL	HTTP

Some experience with:

C++	Ruby	Maven	Memcached
Perl	Ajax	Javascript	Spring

Can learn:

most things quickly

Aaron Evans

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