résumé
OBJECTIVE
| Looking for some kind of heart inside this great machine. |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Dropbox
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Staff Engineer, 02/14 - 03/18
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
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
Bringing culture to the web through the Cultural Institute |
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YouTube
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Frontend Engineer, 09/07 - 04/10
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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FireFTP |
Founder, 07/04 - 11/17
The free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox Charityware that's been downloaded more than 25 million times A small testament to the open source movement |
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FireSSH |
Founder, 12/10 - 11/17
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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Hello, world. |
Founder, 07/11 - present
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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The Rock Hard Times |
Founder, 09/06 - 04/08
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
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
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 |
DEFUNCT/RANDOM PROJECTS (or how I learned to stop worrying and learn from my failures)
| 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++ |
| Systems | Mac OS X, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian), Windows, FreeBSD |
| 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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