Software Engineer

Ryan S. Brown http://ryansb.com/

abpes4@r.postjobfree.com **54 Nathaniel Rochester Hall, Rochester, NY 14623 323-***-****

Seeking full time employment in the design and implementation of cloud systems in a DevOps or Software

Objective

Engineering role. Available full time June of 2013.

I love working with large systems, the less predictable the better. Scaling, load balancing, and graceful failure

Summary

handling are my favorite classes of problems. My free time quickly lls with personal projects and self directed

research on new tools or di erent areas of my eld.

Education Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY September 2009 May 2013

B.S. Applied Networking and Systems Administration GPA: 3.4/4.0

Minors Software Engineering, Applied Communications

Courses Engineering of Software Subsystems, Software Testing, Software Usability, Process and Product Management,

Adv. Routing & Switching, Network Services, Systems Admin 1, Scripting in Perl

Languages Python, C++, Perl, Java, Bash, PHP, SASS/CSS

Skills

Platforms Linux [RHEL, CentOS, Debian], Windows Server [2008, 2003], Cisco IOS, Z/OS

Services Kerberos, LDAP, Apache, NginX, BIND, djbdns, DHCPD, Jabber

Tools Vim, Git, Mercurial, Regex, Nose, TurboGears2, Distutils2, Mako/Jinja, L TEX

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Experience RIT Lab for Technological Literacy Rochester, NY August 2012 Present

Systems Administrator http://foss.rit.edu/

Worked as a System Administrator in the Free/Open Source Software initiative. Wrote web utilities to streamline

developer work ows including auto-deploy hooks from Git to the Python Package Index.

Computer Science House Rochester, NY August 2011 Present

Resident Advisor http://csh.rit.edu/

Mentored and supervised 55 co-ed rst through fth year college students. Duties included planning and hosting

community building events, enforcing policies, and resolving con icts between residents.

Google Pittsburgh, PA June August 2012

Software Engineering Intern http://google.com/

Wrote infrastructure management software in Python and C++. This required a deep familiarity with Google compute

resources and infrastructure to understand the project scope. The software saved time and money by managing requests

for maintenance-related downtime, without impacting availability.

Cypherworx, Inc. Fairport, NY March June 2012

Cloud Infrastructure Consultant http://cypherworx.com/

Designed a scalable infrastructure in the Rackspace cloud to cope with a growing user base. Wrote maintenance scripts

for the new infrastructure in Bash and Python that saved hours when needs changed. Used Rackspace s CDN to host

static content, and Amazon Cloudfront to serve Flash content via RTMP without changing existing work ows.

Newstex, LLC Telecommute March 2011 March 2012

Cloud Application Engineer http://newstex.com/

Developed WSGI applications to deliver news stories to customers using EC2, S3, SQS, Route53, and SDB. Primary

role was the design and implementation of internal RESTful API s that parsed XHTML/XML with minimal delay,

including an XSLT segment management application.

Fedora Messaging System IRC Bot

Projects http://github.com/ryansb/fedmsg

Built an IRC bot using Twisted to subscribe to ZeroMQ topics and display noti cations in IRC on speci ed

ZeroMQ topics.

Boto http://github.com/boto/boto/

Contributed to the open source Python interface to Amazon Web Services. Added support for uploading and

executing scripts automatically on new instances.

IMPULSE Shell http://github.com/ryansb/ish/

Wrote a Python shell for users to interactively make changes to DNS/DHCP records, devices, addresses, and

other network resources in IMPULSE, a PgSQL-backed application.

ZSH-Boto http://github.com/ryansb/zsh-boto

Created a set of tab-completion scripts for ZSH that make command-line administration of S3 and Elastic Load

Balancer more user friendly.

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