Simran Gleason
5830 SE Nehalem
Portland, OR 97206
www.art.net/simran
simran@art.net
(503) 853-4469
Software engineer with thirty years experience as individual
contributor, team lead, director, and principal engineer. Strong
architecture, design, and implementation skills. Experience with web
development, iPhone apps, and audio programming. Proficiency in HTML,
javascript, React, and backend web technologies such as Python, Flask, and
Jinja.
Teaching / tutorial experience and strong verbal and written
communication skills.
Professional Experience
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Core Engineer
San Francisco, CA
(remote)
May 2019-present
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On team building the initial prototype of Archipelo, a new platform for finding, promoting, and contributing to open source projects. Currently working with React, Flask, and ElasticSearch, concentrating on designing the data architecture and REST api.
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Web Development Lead
(remote)
May 2019-Oct 2019
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Lead the web application team at iCruits, coordinating ux, design, and developers while also contributing to front & back end implemention using React and Flask.
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Founding Engineer
Portland, OR
2017-2018
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Back end:
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Worked with team to conceptualize encapsulated information "blocks" as basic unit of data analysis.
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Designed and implemented data structures for blocks, stories, images, etc; connected to persistence layer.
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REST api for blocks, images, stories, etc.
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Designed and implemented model-driven indexing and search service using ElasticSearch.
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Designed and implemented merged block algorithms and service for saving, retrieving, and manipulating blocks. Worked closely with data scientist to present information as ready for analysis
Front end:
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Built initial information display UI including block profiles, merge tool, map visualization, multi-dimensional scatterplot.
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Implemented search interface including interactive map-based search.
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Implemented block profile display and image slideshows.
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Principal Engineer
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Responsible for services architecture, design governance,
mentoring, as well as implementing REST services.
Director, Data Services and Modeling
Data Services lead
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Leading the data services and content framework
team at Thetus, with some analytics, machine
learning, and data visualization.
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Lead team to redesign search framework based around Solr search.
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Certified Scrum Master
Developer, application services
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Responsible for data transfer between server-side
modules in java that provide data and client-side libraries in flex
that use, edit, and occasionally manipulate.
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Milpitas, CA,
Beaverton, OR
2009 - 2011
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Principal software engineer
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Web application developer for Phoenix workbench, a
company-wide tool to enable collaborative
development across multiple time zones, improve
communication and issue tracking with customers, and
track time spent on support contracts for BIOS
vendors. Responsible for user interface design &
implementation, and project arrangement and
setup. This project entailed a range of work
including discovering customer requirements, tool
evaluation, design and implementation of point
solutions, and community management. Technologies
used: ruby on rails, redmine, javascript, html &
css.
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Senior software engineer
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The Lab Management project is a saas-based
virtualization environment that turns a random bank for servers into
a private, managed cloud. I was responsible for UI design and
implementation, and I designed and developed the cloud provisioning
engine and allocation feature set from back end to AJAX-based UI. The
project was written in Python with Cheetah as the front-end template
language, generating html, css, and javascript.
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Member of Technical Staff
Staff Engineer
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Knowledge Systems Group
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Sunsoft Developer Products
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Software Tools Group
Education
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Stanford Univeristy
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M.S. in Computer Science; specialization in Symbolic
and Heuristic Programming and Computational
Linguistics.
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B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Sciences