MICHAEL BUCHER

ac0x7c@r.postjobfree.com

U.S. Citizen

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Bellevue, Wa, 98006

412-***-****

EDUCATION CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY - Pittsburgh, PA Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering May 2012 COMPUTER Programming Languages: Java, Bash, Python C, Assembly SKILLS Application Software: GNU Toolchain, Linux, Junit, Mockito, Solr WORK Amazon Clicks Targeting June 2013 -

EXPERIENCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER I PRESENT

• Developing the new ad serving system

• Modifying our basic sourcing algorithms to explore new relationships

• Worked on architecture and implementation of new item update pipeline

• Expanded and generalized our distributed job service

Added unit test coverage and end to end regressions.

• Updated canonical relationship service

Responsible for scaling the service for holiday demand

• Rewrote our indexing pipeline for ad documents

• Designed and implemented a system to enable negative keyword filtering

• Head Engineer for Softlines Targeting

Leveraged query data to reduce defects and increase relevance

Earned a top widget on the search page

• Initial work on Vector Ad Serving system

• Recurrent Neural Network Targeting project

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center June 2011- Software Engineer, Associate May 2013

• Sole engineer working on business critical web application

• Responsible for fixing issues, adding features, and analyzing data

• Developed business process management system in IBM environment

• Worked with with clients to understand and develop specifications Resilient Cognitive Solutions Pittsburgh, PA Summer 2010 Junior Software Engineering Intern

Collaborated with cognitive scientists to implement and test designs

Updated internal tools to modern libraries and added features ACADEMIC

PROJECTS Blood Pressure Monitor, Rapid Prototyping of Computer Systems Spring 2012

Worked with a local startup to develop a piezoelectric monitor

Integrated the sensor with an Arduino platform and a celluar modem to report data to central server

Freescale Processor, Embedded Systems Engineering Spring 2012

Worked with a Freescale processor and development bread board

Implemented simple real time operating system

ARM Kernel, Fundamentals of Embedded Systems Fall 2010

Designed a minimal kernel for an embedded ARM system

Handled nested interrupts, multiple processes, and drivers for peripherals

Optimized programs in assembly and C for target platform Systems Programming, Computer Systems Fall 2010

Implemented web proxy with multiple threads and shared cache

Coded a memory allocation library

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