Computer Science Software Engineer in Test, Support or Documentation

Yonatan Kirby ** Cummings Road, Newton, MA *****

*********@*****.*** Phone: 617-***-****

Education

Bachelor of Science 2013, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Computer Science

Experience

Android Development Intern, TapWalk, Boston, MA (September 2014-March 2015):

●Learning Android programming in order to help debug existing programs

●Worked with Java and XML

●Worked independently, without a mentor (except for one day a week when he came in)

Quality Assurance Intern, Transmyt Amrap4Life, Cambridge, MA (September-December 2013):

●Developed manual software testing workflows

●Learned some Git

●Explored through and learned about the JavaScript on the site

Software Engineer Intern, Basis Technology, Cambridge, MA, (June-July 2009):

●Helped integrate the Hebrew language into Basis’s name-entity recognition software by evaluating the output of two Israeli linguists’ part-of-speech-tagging of fifteen different Hebrew news articles (which they submitted to Basis in Excel format). I chose which person’s output I thought was most accurate. That output was then fed into the company’s program as training data. I also was on the team that chose which Hebrew part-of-speech tagger program (from various Israeli universities) we were going to use in Basis’s Hebrew product.

●I also programmed an Excel function which operated on both Israeli linguists’ Excel files

●Coded Java classes to extend functionality for open source Lucene search engine

●Constructed JUnit tests for Ant

●Edited Ant’s “pom” file

●Edited a Python script

●Attended daily scrum meetings

Software Engineer Intern, Silverscape, Somerville, MA (June-August 2008):

●Ported web pages in HTML/CSS from Photoshop PSD templates (made by in-house graphic-designers)

●Helped develop content management system framework using SQL and Flex

●Coded a widget for Silverscape’s own website using the JavaScript Scriptaculous framework (an extension of Prototype JS)

●Did some manual QA on webpages

Quality Assurance Intern, MavenHaven, Jerusalem, Israel (June-August 2007):

●Tested software product using manual workflows

●Created categorization system for computing the networks distances across individuals and organizations

●Led small team implementing algorithm development

Technology Consultant, Information Technology and Education Laboratory, Amherst, MA (January-December 2007):

●Aided campus users in navigating computer usage issues

●Set up auxiliary equipment for training

Technology Support Intern, Clinical System Technologies, Newton, MA (July 2005):

●Maintained and supported software installation

●Service operating system across department

●Saw what real programmers looked like and what they were working on

Personal Project Code

●I was inspired by all of the part-of-speech (e.g. noun, adjective) projects I was doing at Basis Technology, and since I love parts of speech, and I love grammar, I created a partially-implemented comma-inserter in JavaScript, which was built on top of an open-source JavaScript part-of-speech tagger. The link to my functions is below; full versions available upon request.

●https://gist.github.com/yonikirby

Skills

Programming and markup languages - Java, C, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, XML, Linux

Foreign Language

Hebrew - proficiency in speaking and written language

Relevant Coursework

●Programming with Data Structures (Java)

●Software Engineering (Java, SQL)

●Algorithms (Java)

●Architecture and Assembly Language

●Database Engineering and Architecture

●Computer Networks (Java)

●Operating Systems (C programming, saw some examples in C#)

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