résumé
OBJECTIVE
| Looking for some kind of heart inside this great machine. |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Mobilize
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Principal Engineer, 12/19 - present, Seattle, WA / New York City, NY
Directing frontend and product for the progressive volunteer platform. Used by non-profits, labor unions, the Democratic presidential primary campaigns (Sanders, Warren, Biden, etc.), and in the 2020 general election for Biden/Harris, up and down the ballot at the federal, state, and local levels. Mobilized voters to oust the Orange Abberation from office and take back the Senate for a federal trifecta. |
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Dropbox
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Staff Engineer, 02/14 - 03/18, San Francisco, CA
Founding frontend engineer on Dropbox Paper from inception to launch, having an influence in almost every aspect of a product that has an enormous surface area, combining: an editor, task manager, slideshow creator, spreadsheet tool, and wiki. Learned more about a contentEditable editor than any reasonable person should. Magically merged React into our 10-year-old brownfield codebase. Dropped cats in boxes, tested lifespan. |
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Hackpad
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Lead Engineer, 07/13 - 02/14, London, UK
Founding frontend engineer on Hackpad. Acquired by Dropbox. Became what is today known as Dropbox Paper. (see above) |
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Google
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Frontend Engineer, 05/12 - 07/13, Paris, France
Bringing culture to the web through the Cultural Institute. Projects included Yad Vashem, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Musée d'Orsay, and many other museums and foundations. |
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Hello, world. |
Founder, 07/11 - present, Paris, France / Seattle, WA
Federated social web blog and RSS reader. Passes swat0! Based on my custom, opinionated fork of create-react-app called all-the-things. Created alongside a companion technical guide to modern frontend programming. |
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FireSSH |
Founder, 12/10 - 11/17, Portland, OR
The free, secure, cross-platform SSH terminal client for Mozilla Firefox. Written entirely in Javascript! Based off of the Python project paramiko. |
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YouTube |
Frontend Engineer, 09/07 - 04/10, San Bruno, CA
One of the initial frontend engineers at YouTube. Maintained the watch page, viewed well over 2 billion times a day. Spearheaded campaign to drop IE6 support. You're welcome, web developers and Internet users! Implemented measures to reduce front-end latency by more than 50%. Worked in a loving environment. |
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The Rock Hard Times |
Founder, 09/06 - 04/08, Portland, OR
A comprehensive, user-editable site for all things music. Only the most rockin' music database ever invented. |
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Mozdev Group |
Software Engineer, 01/06 - 08/06, Portland, OR
Worked with a tightly integrated team developing custom browser distributions. and plugins based on the world-class Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird projects. Developed in C++, XUL, Javascript, XBL, and related Mozilla technologies. Learned cross-platform software developing techniques (Windows, Linux). Clients included: Earthlink, Linspire, Angelsoft. |
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Rho Trading
and Securities |
Software Engineer, 02/05 - 12/05, Chicago, IL
Co-developed an in-house trading application written in C#/C++. Wrote many GUI applications that perform various tasks on the trading platform. Wrote library using an API to connect to a trading exchange. Acquired knowledge of working on a large-scale, multi-threaded .NET project. |
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FireFTP |
Founder, 07/04 - 11/17, Zagreb, Croatia
The free, secure, cross-platform FTP/SFTP client for Mozilla Firefox. Charityware that's been downloaded more than 25 million times. A small testament to the open source movement. |
DEFUNCT/RANDOM PROJECTS (or how I learned to stop worrying and learn from my failures)
| 2020Madness |
2020 Madness was an online social game designed to raise money for the eventual Democratic candidate in the election. |
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| AIMfire |
A free, cross-platform AIM client for Mozilla Firefox.
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The Largest River |
A stripped-down, minimalistic Amazon.com store proxy.
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FORMAL EDUCATION
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B.A. in Computer Science
4.0 GPA, Summa Cum Laude Minor in Physics Ball State University, Muncie, IN 2002-2004 Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies Certificate Stanford University, 2018 |
SKILLS
| Languages | Javascript, React, Typescript, XUL, Python, HTML, CSS, PHP, C#, C/C++ |
| Spoken Languages | English (Fluent), Croatian (Fluent), French (Proficient), Spanish (Proficient) |
INTERESTS
| Writer | Wrote a modern, technical coding guide for frontend web development. |
| Volunteer | During summers, help take care of children from an orphanage in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Proceeds from the FireFTP project went towards helping out this particular orphanage. Supporter of LGBT rights: proceeds from the FireFTP project also go towards helping things get better in the U.S, Croatia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Built a natural cob home on Pine Ridge Reservation to help foster community and sustainable living. Worked in Trsteno, Croatia to help restore an arboretum destroyed by a fire. Worked at Habitat for Humanity. Helped out at Free Geek, an organization dedicated to recycling and refurbishing used computer systems. |
| Musician | Tamburica player (for Croatian musical ensemble in Chicago). |
| Photographer | Work showcased on personal website. |
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