University of Notre Dame

Calvin College

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)

Software Developer at Amazon

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Software Developer

Amazon

I worked for the Cosmos team, a big data engine which began as the backend for the Bing search engine. I improved services for hot data rebalancing, wrote watchdog services for recovering extents, wrote GUI apps used internally, improved a tool that reports crashes and files bug reports automatically, configured new Cosmos environments, and other various tasks.

Microsoft

Software Developer Contractor

I am on the performance monitoring team for SQL Azure, the cloud database service. I write and modify utilities (mostly C#) and views (mostly XML + SQL) used by dev ops to keep up with SQL Azure's resource governance changes.

Software Developer in Test, Software Developer

Oak Financial Software Corp

Security Developer Intern

Worked with testing team for an electronic parking break made by TRW. Designed reports and wrote scripts to automatically generate them periodically in PDF format based on test result data for customers and people within the company. Also learned a lot about German business, culture, and language.

Software Developer Intern

Worked with the planning and promotion team on price optimization, using several database engines including Oracle, TeraData, and SQL Server. Wrote stored procedures and GUI applications using VB.NET.

Meijer

Was one of only two people in the IT department. Wrote lots of web applications using PHP, set up some sites using TWiki and WordPress, did some website maintenance, and wrote some scripts to update old databases. Also gained experience in UNIX and SSH.

Ed Smilde