Projects

Engineering

• AuthorPop. A book review and rating site originally written in MeteorJS, now reimplementing in Clojure with Ring/Compojure and eventually React/Om.
• Hiss. A scalable Python distributed messaging framework using a gossip algorithm with vector clocks for causal ordering, and built on top of Twisted.
• Thebes. A Clojure system for data aggregation and analysis.
• Storm-Hyperdex. Open source library for connecting the real time system Storm to the powerful next gen key value store, Hyperdex.
• Convex-Hull. A final project to visualize convex-hull finding algorithms.
• World’s End. A basic graphical game in C demonstrating skyboxes, animation, and 3D models.

Contributions

• Flambo. Clojure API for Spark. Contributed to dataframe and SQL apis.
• Apache Spark. Minor contributions.
• Ghost. ClojureScript wrapper for CasperJS, a Javascript utility for PhantomJS.
• Cascalog-Doc. Improved documentation for Cascalog, a Clojure datalog-like abstraction over Cascading.
• ADMM. ADMM Algorithm on Hadoop.

Speaking

• The Fun of Connection: Building Abstractions in Data Systems (Midwest.io, 2015).
• Technical Foundations of Vertica (Presented at Intent Media, Inc, 2013)
• Convex Hull Finding Algorithms (Presented as academic research for an interview, 2012)

Awards

• Award for Excellence in Computer Science (Wheaton College, 2012)
• 12th place ACM Midwest Region Programming Competition, 2009
• 1st Place ACCA Programming Competition, 2009

Community

• Member, Board of Trustees, Math, Engineering, and Science Academy, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
• Video Game Programming with Scratch Math, Engineering, and Science Academy, Brooklyn, NY (2014)
• Video Game Programming with Racket, Global Tech Prepratory School, New York, NY (2013)