Sheila Miguez
smiguez@pobox.com
https://github.com/codersquid
An experienced professional who enjoys polyglot programming environments and working on large scale applications. Experienced at working in constantly changing environments with rapid release cycles. Passionate about writing maintainable code. Obsessive about documentation. Passionate about open culture and open science.
Chicago, IL — present
Taking a summer sabbatical to work on scientific and community open source projects and events.
Chicago, IL — 2013/05-2014/05
ResearchCompendia Project
Created a web application for scientists to share the code and data underlying scientific publications in order to make their research truly reproducible. Technologies: Celery, Continuous Integration, Django, Fabric, Gunicorn, Nginx, Postgresql, Python
- https://github.com/researchcompendia/researchcompendia
- https://github.com/researchcompendia/researchcompendia-deployment
- http://researchcompendia.org/
- Stodden, V., Miguez, S., & Seiler, J. (in press). ResearchCompendia.org: CyberInfrastructure for Reproducibility and Collaboration in Computational Science. Computing in Science & Engineering.
Best Practices
Involved in the intellectual life of the group by collaborating in discussions about best practices for computational research and advocating for reproducible research.
- Stodden, V and Miguez, S 2014. Best Practices for Computational Science: Software Infrastructure and Environments for Reproducible and Extensible Research. Journal of Open Research Software 2(1):e21, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jors.ay
- http://wiki.stodden.net/Best_Practices_for_Computational_Reproducibility
Chicago, IL — 2006-2013
Developed backend web services for the hotel and dynamic packaging verticals, and worked on component frameworks used by all services. Technologies: Ant, Continuous Integration, Erlang, Glu, Gradle, Graphite, Hibernate, Java, Jenkins, Jython, Maven, REST, Protocol Buffers, Python, Spring, Service Oriented Architecture, Testng, Tomcat
Technical Performance and Componentization Projects
- Hotel Vertical Search Performance: Improved latency and stability in the hotel shopping service for our external business partners, starting with American Express.
- Packaging Vertical Enhancements: Created stateless reprice services for the dynamic packaging vertical. This allowed OWW to serve as the travel service provider for American Express’s travel platform.
Technical Initiatives and Componentization Projects
- Decoupling OWW services: Modernized our internal services to adhere to a more service oriented design
- HotelClub: Created loyalty web service for HotelClub.
Hotel Team Projects
- Hotel Multi-room: Created services for our web platform allowing customers to search and book different room-types in one reservation. Added multi-room inventory management to the extranet platform.
- Hotel Resort Fees: Added features to the extranet platform to allow hoteliers to manage hotel fees with their inventory, and added transparency in fee amounts and descriptions for our customers on the web platform.
- Hotel stack refactoring, stability, and production support.
Chicago, IL — 2004-2005
Worked in a startup developing a test automation platform for smart phones.
Secure Design Center, Schaumburg, IL — 1999-2004
Developed features for the crypto engine used in secure radio networks.
- Chicago Python Workshop: co-organize Chicago Python Workshop, Python Project Night, and Python Office Hours.
- Open Source Comes to Campus: volunteer for Chicago OSCtC events.
- PyVideo.org: help python event organizers index videos on pyvideo.org and deploy the platform for non python conferences.
- SciPy 2014 Technical Committee: help deploy and maintain the conference symposion site.
- SciPy 2013 Program Committee: reviewed proposals.
- Tim Videos: mentoring for Tim Videos Google Summer of Code 2014. Tim Videos is a FLOSS project for streaming videos for conferences and other events.
University of Maryland
College Park, MD — May 1999
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science; Bachelor of Science, Psychology