Galvanize Inc

The Evergreen State College

University of California, Berkeley

Sr. Software Engineer at Jupiter Intelligence

Oakland, California, United States

Led frontend development for data analytics platform using React/Redux/Bootstrap including customizable dashboards, NLP search, advanced user-analytics, custom visualization tools using Highcharts and Google Maps APIs;Worked backend development in Node, utilizing services written in Java & Python; data storage in graph (Neo4j) and postgres databases; deployment in AWS; DevOps work including set-up and mgmt of EC2 instances, security groups, health checks & alerting, routing, certificate mgmt;Industry Awards: Casino Journal’s Most Innovative Gaming Technology Products, Silver Award; G&L Board’s Transformation Award; Global Gaming Business magazine Best Productivity-Enhancement Technology Award.

GamingAnalytics.ai

Full Stack Developer

Full-time immersive with multiple agile team-projects building applications for the frontend (React, Redux, HTML, CSS),  and backend (Node, Express, PostgreSQL, Docker), and deployed on Heroku and AWS.

Galvanize - San Francisco, SoMa

Full-Stack Student

Consulted for Virtual Science Center (VSC) during its early phases of exhibition design and concept development, as focus group Assistant and Data-Collector, then as Principal Data Aggregator, Analyst, and Writer on the front-end evaluation for VSC's multi-city traveling exhibition on the art and science of virtual reality.

Virtual Science Center

Co-Principal Front-end Evaluator

People-analytics platform that leverages cutting-edge personality science and machine learning to reduce friction and improve the quality of hiring at scale.Contributed to IP through psychometric research and validationLed user-testing for rapid prototyping and iteration of assessment platformWorked on end-to-end testing, unit-testing for Flask/Python app

Stealth Startup

Research & Development Intern

Growing sustainable science education that engages the complementarity of Buddhist philosophy and western scientific method by instigating intensive hands-on workshops with Tibetan monastic scholars (Geshes) on cosmology, neuroscience, scientific inquiry, and community projects.My role was to support teachers in the classroom and administrators in the field, documenting the process with photographs and detailed written notes, facilitating experiments, interviewing workshop participants, and studying the cultural synthesis of east and west as the workshop progressed.

Sager Family Foundation

Science for Monks - Intern

Major contributions to outreach, documentation, and organization of the 11th Annual Conference on Neuroaesthetics; managed the Minerva Foundation website and social media; assisted staff in day-to-day operations including market research, networking, event-planning, web-design, taking inventories, and general office duties.

The Minerva Foundation

Intern

Developed and implemented cognitive tools and interventions in education centered on psychological processes involved in social-emotional learning, self-efficacy, and active awareness, and explored the mechanisms of such processes and whether they can be tailored to facilitate adaptive environments across a broad range of ages and cultures.Consulted for the Junior Giants Organization in 2013 to design and run a series of workshops on bullying and social-emotional conscientiousness.Consulted for the Exploratorium in San Francisco in 2013 & 2014 to develop and test a series of exhibits and classroom activities centered around sharing, cooperation, and other group behavior (commissioned by the Science of Sharing grant through NSF).

The Heroic Imagination Project

Research Associate

Conducted customer-intercept surveys for the SFO Shared-Ride Van Project; Assessed the strengths and shortcomings of the Shared-Ride Van service at SFO airport through customer interviews and in collaboration with another consulting firm.

JD Franz Research, Inc

Research Assistant

Worked as assistant to the chef in several cooking classes, helping students improve technique, preparing refreshments, washing dishes, cleaning and organizing work spaces throughout, and closing the studio after class.

Chef Joe's Culinary Salon

Teaching Assistant

Served as the Vice President and Historian for the Geoduck Student Union. Recorded meeting minutes, coordinated projects, sat on the Food Services Advisory Committee, Student Conduct Code Hearing Board, and Dining Services Request for Proposals Committee.Met with department heads regularly, developed budgets, sat on hiring committees, negotiated contracts with outside organizations, planned and organized large-scale student events, met with legislators, and worked to bridge communication between students, faculty, and the administration.

Vice President of Student Union

Designed and ran a social psychology research project to investigate competitiveness of high school students based on gender in a variant of the “Prisoner's Dilemma” game. Research contributed to Science of Sharing grant (NSF 1114781) at the Exploratorium and the on-going exhibit development in the gallery devoted to social sciences.

Exploratorium

Further involvement in training and mentoring, special event staffing, specialized tours of the museum for VIPs, participated in fundraising events, and contributed to exhibit design process.

High School Explainer

Assisted in a nightly meditation and arts program for children ages 5-12 that included instruction in the foundations of mindfulness, facilitating games and art projects, and preparing snacks.

Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Teaching Assistant (Volunteer)

In addition to previous duties, I also assisted camp directors at the Exploratorium's summer camp with a wide range of activities while monitoring the location and well-being of children, ages 5-6 years old.

Broad range of responsibilities that included opening and closing the museum, maintaining exhibits, training new employees, and supporting general museum operations; Answered questions on and gave public demonstrations of a multitude of areas in science and the arts; Worked extensively with children and members of the public ranging from toddlers to the elderly from a wide variety of backgrounds and nationalities. Required patience, responsibility, leadership, and creativity.

Tyler Langenbrunner

Tyler Langenbrunner