Engineer Software
Resume:
Alex Lewin
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****-*************.**, ******.**, (San Francisco, CA)
Senior Software Engineer. I've worked on mobile apps, back end, tools, scalability, and
infrastructure.
2010Foodily (San Mateo, CA)
Software Architect, Nutrition Czar. Creating a recipe search website with a rich user
experience. I worked on the data architecture, nutrition strategy, and back end.
2006-presentAtlas Capital Investments (Cambridge, MA)
Partner. Hedge fund investing in sustainable technologies.
2004-2005Ames On-Demand (Somerville, MA)
Consultant. I advised on systems architecture, design, programming, and administration.
2004Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Instructor, CSCI E-13, Practical Perl. I taught an intermediate-level programming course
in perl. Topics included but were not limited to: systems programming; web programming;
and software engineering and maintainability.
2002-2004Smartleaf (Cambridge, MA)
Senior Systems Engineer. Smartleaf creates computer software that helps portfolio
managers invest their clients' assets. I worked on infrastructure engineering; system and
network administration; and architecture, design, and programming of a financial market
model.
1998-2002Yahoo! (Santa Clara, CA)
Technical Yahoo! (Yahoo! bought Viaweb, my previous employer.) I worked on Yahoo! Store
and Yahoo! Shopping: integration with the rest of the Yahoo properties; search
functionality; internationalization and localization; capacity planning; disaster
recovery; and special projects. FreeBSD, perl, C, bash, ssh, etc.
1997-1998Viaweb (Cambridge, MA)
Senior Software Engineer. I held primary responsibility for Shopfind, Viaweb's online
shopping search engine. Shopfind operations included crawling and indexing shopping web
sites, and search using a proprietary scoring algorithm.
1994-1997VideoGuide (Bedford, MA)
Senior Engineer, System Administrator, Test System Development. At various times, I
helped implement and maintain a lights-out, 24/7 data-processing and broadcast system,
including data feed processing; had primary responsibility for administration of a network
of SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Macintosh machines; led design and implementation of a
test system; and designed and implemented firmware.
Skills
Veteran unix and web programmer
Expert knowledge of food sustianability technologies; strong knowledge of other
sustainable technologies
Years of experience designing and implementing back end, QA, and development tools using
SQL, python/perl/ruby, bash, make, etc.
Years writing desktop, server, and embedded software in C/C++
Have administed web servers, mail servers, DNS, routers, switches, firewalls, etc., and
designed disaster recovery plans
Undergraduate training in mathematics
Expert writing ability
Strong communication skills
Food And Health
July 2012 Book: Real Food Fermentation
Authored a book about food fermenting, including vegetables, dairy, fruit, etc.
2010-present Alex Lewin, Health Coach
Health Coach. I help my clients set health goals and achieve them.
2009-present Feed Me Like You Mean It (blog)
Author. I write a widely-read blog about food, health, and sustainability.
2009-present Food Preserving Instructor
I lead classes, demos, and workshops in food preserving, sometimes as part of the
Cambridge School of Culinary Arts recreational program, and sometimes on my own.
2009-present Boston Public Market Association (Boston, MA)
Board Member. We are creating an indoor, year-round local food market serving the Boston
area.
Education
2010 Institute for Integrative Nutrition (New York, NY) Health Coach
2005-2006 Cambridge School of Culinary Arts (Cambridge, MA) Professional Chef Program
(honors in lab)1986-1990 Harvard College (Cambridge, MA) AB in Mathematics (cum laude); National Merit
Scholar; John Harvard Scholar; Harvard College Scholar.
Service
Board member of the Boston Public Market Association (see above under Food and Health).
Trustee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum Foundation.
Former advisor to the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development.
Former board member of the Yahoo! Employee Foundation.
Former board member and Secretary of GlobaLearn, Inc.
Other
triathlon, urban bicycling, yoga, writing, music, sustainability, travel, cooking,
eating, photography, anything with two wheels, speaking French
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