Engineer Manager

Eric Christopher Seidel

****@*******.***, http://www.eseidel.com/

Objective

Seeking a Senior Engineer or Engineering-Manager position involving web-related technologies.

Recent Experience

May 2006 - June 2007

Digital Brick, Co-founder

Received investment from Y-Combinator s Summer Founders Program 2006

Built the fashion website www.shout t.com in Ruby on Rails/MySQL/Apache/Mongrel/EC2/S3

Presented to investors, managed press contacts, recruited services and employees

April 2003 - May 2006

Apple Computer

Safari/WebKit Engineer September 2005 - May 2006

Implemented Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) support for WebKit, shipped in Safari 3

Ported over 90,000 lines of KDE code; added Quartz and CoreImage rendering, testing tools

Led process renovations: use of SVN, buildbot, better performance tools, code auto-generation

Provided technical leadership, particularly in initial porting of WebKit to Windows

Recruited and led WebKit Open Source contributors

Addressed major compatibility issues for Google and other modern websites

Gave presentations to senior executives, detailing innovations from the Safari team

February 2004 - September 2005

Frameworks Engineer

Designed and implemented all UI for the Sync Services product in Mac OS X Tiger including:

Con ict Resolver Sync.menu SyncServicesUI.framework SyncServices UI Daemon

Authored engine-level features including record validation and registration

Developed numerous tool additions, both for internal testing and developers

Featured speaker: WWDC Student Sunday, June 2004; Sync Services Tiger Brown Bag, May 2005

Active user: Reported over 1,800 bugs

BSD Technologies Intern April 2003 February 2004

Maintained 10+ projects including Apache & modules, ntp, bash, top, man pages

Stanford University, Visiting Lecturer Spring Term 2005

Taught 10 weeks of full credit Cocoa user interface programming to undergrad & graduate students

Redwood City Overland Robotics, Volunteer Researcher November 2003 February 2004

Designing fully automated ground vehicle for DARPA Grand Challenge, September 2005

Responsible for real-time laser data acquisition & map construction under QNX

Key Skill Areas

Web Engines C++/Obj-C Public Speaking High-Performance Code Graphics

Education

Lawrence University, Appleton, WI Major: Math June 2003

Honors Thesis: Preparing Tomorrow s Cryptography graduated cum laude in thesis & course

Outside Interests

Swing & Ballroom dance & instruction; Eagle Scout; runner, cyclist; German ( uent)

Outdoors: Hiked 1200 miles from Maine to Virginia along the Appalachian Trail, Summer 2007

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