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@hellertime
Created August 2, 2012 01:11
Chris Heller's Online Resume

Chris Heller

phone#: 1-617-460-3643 | e-mail: hellertime@gmail.com | github: github.com/hellertime

Profile

I am a problem-solver with over a decade of experience in the Information Retrieval field.

Experience designing and implementing distributed-databases, inverted-index search engines, hosted-search web applications, Adobe Flex based GUIs.

I pride myself in taking a pragmatic approach to software development and focusing on how software development aligns with business objectives.

Experience

SAS Institute Inc.

Advanced Analytics Division
Text Analytics R&D
Cambridge, MA              2000-Present
Sr. Software Developer
SAS Information Retrieval Studio
  • Responsible for the multitenancy architecture.
  • Extended search engine technology to enable cross-token wildcard search.
  • Developed a GUI plugin format, which enabled faster time-to-completion for new interface components.
  • Created technology demos using Information Retrieval Studio, notable projects include a Bayesian-classification pipeline and a source-code search engine.
PicoSearch Hosted Search Engine www.picosearch.com
  • Lead developer of site back end.

    • Created a multitenant data-logging server for storing arbitrary metrics without the need for a data schema.

    • Designed and developed a distributed, replicated key-value database.

      • Responsible for the design of the inter-node control protocol, and the node query protocol.
      • Designed a group discovery protocol for node boot-up, allowing nodes to join a group without apriori knowledge of peers.
      • Responsible for client API implementations in Python and Perl.
Various other development projects include:
  • Developed an incremental, off-site backup system. Copy-on-write architecture minimized backup resource consumption.
  • Created a software delivery web application, which was used by customers to download software from unforgeable, time-expiring links.

EMC2 Corporation

Internal Technical Support
Franklin, MA              1999-2000

Worked with company employees and internal IT department, providing round-the-clock monitoring of services and resolving technical issue which arose daily.

Open Source

I develop free software as a hobby, and currently host it on GitHub: github.com/hellertime

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