The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin - LBJ School of Public Affairs

Bellaire High School

Practice Yoga Austin

Engineering at Cratejoy

Techstars

Mentor

Cratejoy

VP of Engineering

Senior Director of Engineering

Software Engineering Manager

Staff Software Engineer

- Develop back-end models for the studio photography application.
- Work with product managers to develop new (and modify existing) functionality to fulfill feature requirements across the suite of studio applications.
- Develop, unit test, debug, iterate, and troubleshoot software and web applications.
- Research new technologies and incorporate them into systems and products.
- Resolve issues and bugs that impact new and legacy systems.
- Leveraged technologies include linux, python, mongodb, SQL, and C#.

Demand Media

Senior Software Engineer

- Designed, developed, deployed, and maintained internal reporting tools (and associated data pipelines) with python/flask.
- Built an a/b testing framework for landing page analytics.
- Implemented map/reduce with hadoop to perform analytics on the commoncrawl corpus, (a 210TB crawl of "the entire web").
- Developed a series of spiders and data mining tools to perform various analytics tasks.
- Ran BI deep dives into companies for biz dev / corp dev.
- Performed various sysadmin tasks for the R&D group including production configuration and deployments.

Software Engineer

- This was my first job writing code.
- Wrote a series of Python spiders to aggregate data from web archives of semiconductor hardware prices dating back to the 1980s, which I used to construct research databases for Dr. Kenneth Flamm, who had been one of my professors the previous year.
- Wrote crawlers to parse and classify text data from government memos from the FDA and PTO for an NSF-funded innovation economics project.

LBJ School

Research Associate

- Held office hours, provided student support, and fielded emails for over 200 students.
- Administered and graded homework assignments, exams, and quizzes.
- Held weekly review sessions, office hours, and student meetings.

University of Texas at Austin

Teaching Assistant (Intro to Management)

- Awarded a William H. Crook Fellowship of International Affairs
- Created and taught beginner and intermediate level computer and Internet literacy curricula (in Spanish) for microloan beneficiaries.
- Improved DiscoverHope Fund’s use of networking, web tools, and technology in the field.
- Created a Wordpress site (in Spanish) for DiscoverHope's Peruvian microfinance partner.

DiscoverHope Fund

Technology Development Intern

- Constructed econometric models using statistical software such as STATA and Excel.
- Identified, collected, and synthesized research on market structure, conduct of market participants, and competitive performance.
- Assembled, cleaned, and processed raw economic, financial, and operational data for analysis.
- Reviewed electronic and hard-copy documents from case discovery, legal and scholarly databases, and SEC filings.
- Designed and created visualizations in Excel, Powerpoint, and other tools.
- Crafted analytical and economic arguments to support arguments.
- Drafted letters, memoranda, and reports for legal teams and the court.

Blake Messer