resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Nathan Smith",
    "email": "nathasm@gmail.com",
    "phone": "(518) 221-6576",
    "location": {
      "address": "Signal Mountain, TN"
    }
  },
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Ohio University",
      "area": "Computer Science/Microbiology",
      "studyType": "BS",
      "startDate": "1997",
      "endDate": "2001",
      "location": "Athens, OH"
    },
    {
      "institution": "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute",
      "location": "Troy, NY",
      "studyType": "MS",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "startDate": "2001",
      "endDate": "2003"
    }
  ],
  "work": [
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Led the design and implementation of full-stack features, collaborating closely with the product development team to translate designs into functional code",
        "Developed and integrated user-facing features, leveraging TypeScript/React for front-end development and Python for back-end services, ensuring robust and scalable applications",
        "Engineered and optimized internal ETL pipeline, transferring data from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) datastores to a PostgreSQL datastore, including creating new database tables and performing post-ingestion data calculations",
        "Provided comprehensive production support for clients and internal staff, including bug tracking and resolution, customer-requested investigations, and upgrades from legacy platforms",
        "Contributed to significant company growth, participating in interviews and mentoring over 10 new employees, helping the company quadruple in size",
        "Served as a technical point of contact for both front-end and back-end architecture and design and implementation"
      ],
      "company": "EvolutionIQ",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer",
      "location": "Remote",
      "startDate": "2022-06",
      "endDate": "2024-03"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Full-stack developer on a product that aims to use semantic analysis to better apply metadata to customers' data and reporting tools",
        "Implemented numerous user-facing features leveraging TypeScript/React as part of our semantic analysis offering",
        "Led efforts to standardize best practices and build processes for internationalizing applications across web-based product offerings",
        "Focused on improving reliability, testability, and automation through implementing a complete CI/CD pipeline, unit testing with Jest/Karma, and E2E testing with Cypress",
        "Supported field consultants and customers through various phases of project planning, POC implementation, and post-deployment support"
      ],
      "company": "Ab Initio Software",
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "location": "Lexington, MA / Remote",
      "startDate": "2019-05",
      "endDate": "2022-06"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Improved code quality by providing constructive feedback, observations, and suggestions through code reviews"
      ],
      "company": "PullRequest",
      "position": "Code Reviewer",
      "location": "Remote",
      "startDate": "2021-08"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Architected and developed a full-stack web application from the ground up to interact with a new trading platform which encompassed 50k LOC, 10k tests, and 99% code coverage",
        "Implemented front-end application using AngularJS and NodeJS/ExpressJS frameworks, and a C++ facade API to interact with the trading platform",
        "Led and managed a team of 3 from hiring, cultivating culture, and performance reviews",
        "Implemented features for various C++ applications to manage access to databases, cache system state, and proxy requests to provide near real-time queries without affecting mission-critical applications",
        "Acted as project manager for a team of 7 developers during the initial build-out phase of the matching engine project. Handled communication between management and customers to deliver the project on time with 100% uptime",
        "Architected and implemented a full software development life cycle using open-source tools to track progress, submit features/bugs, perform code reviews, and manage source control systems with continuous integration"
      ],
      "company": "Thesys Technologies",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer",
      "location": "Charleston, SC / Remote",
      "startDate": "2012-12",
      "endDate": "2019-03"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Cofounded a business which aimed to connect businesses to share resources and build a client base",
        "Designed and implemented a full-stack application using Angular and Ruby on Rails"
      ],
      "company": "Cohortable",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer",
      "location": "Remote",
      "startDate": "2016-08",
      "endDate": "2017-08"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Managed a team responsible for market data distribution throughout the organization",
        "Implemented and tested low latency feed handler applications in C++",
        "Designed a new market data client API in C++ for Citi Equities global initiative",
        "Investigated and evaluated hardware solutions to improve the existing system through network and server upgrades"
      ],
      "company": "Automated Trading Desk",
      "position": "Software Team Lead",
      "location": "Mount Pleasant, SC",
      "startDate": "2007-06",
      "endDate": "2012-11"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Tested and critiqued software components and interfaces with technical depth",
        "Wrote C/C++ test programs to assure quality and develop test tools to increase effectiveness through model-based, parameter, functional, and structural testing techniques",
        "Developed stress infrastructure to verify the health of the Winsock component"
      ],
      "company": "Microsoft",
      "position": "Software Design Engineer in Test (SDET)",
      "location": "Redmond, WA",
      "startDate": "2005-08",
      "endDate": "2007-06"
    },
    {
      "location": "Niskayuna, NY",
      "position": "Individual Contributor",
      "website": "",
      "startDate": "2001-06",
      "endDate": "2005-08",
      "highlights": [
        "Completed a master's degree in Computer Science while working full-time on several research rotations throughout the Center",
        "Designed, implemented, and tested a path planning application for aircraft engine fan blade inspection written in C++",
        "Designed and implemented a novel transport layer protocol over ad hoc and large bandwidth/large delay networks within a test bed environment",
        "Innovated active priority queuing algorithms and multi-criteria QoS routing metrics in an ad-hoc wireless active network",
        "Utilized complexity techniques for semantically classifying various forms of network traffic"
      ],
      "company": "General Electric"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "keywords": [
        "React",
        "Angular",
        "VueJS",
        "TypeScript",
        "Cypress"
      ],
      "name": "Front-End Web Development"
    },
    {
      "keywords": [
        "NodeJS",
        "Python/FastAPI"
      ],
      "name": "Back-End Web Development"
    },
    {
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "C++11, C++14"
      ],
      "name": "Object Oriented Programming"
    },
    {
      "keywords": [
        "ZMQ, Google Protobuf, RabbitMQ, Custom language-independent protocols"
      ],
      "name": "Middleware"
    },
    {
      "keywords": [
        "PostgreSQL",
        "Google BigQuery",
        "MariaDB"
      ],
      "name": "Databases"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "Patent",
      "description": "Patent for generating numerically controlled tool paths on a solid model (USPTO #6678575)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Patent Pending",
      "description": "Machine learning techniques for discovering keys in relational datasets"
    },
    {
      "name": "Patent Pending",
      "description": "QoS techniques in an active networking environment"
    },
    {
      "name": "Patent Pending",
      "description": "Novel store-and-forward algorithm for use in active networks"
    }
  ]
}