resume.json

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    "name": "Robert Trencheny",
    "label": "Head Of Infrastructure at Flatfile Inc.",
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    "email": "me@robbiet.us",
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    "summary": "Experienced Internet Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Web Applications, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PaaS, Docker and Kubernetes. Strong operations professional graduated from Y Combinator. ",
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      "position": "Head Of Infrastructure",
      "startDate": "2020-04-30",
      "summary": "I build and support all infrastructure and client on premise enterprise deployments of our application which enables developers to easily import raw data like CSVs into their application.",
      "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/flatfile/"
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      "company": "Home Assistant",
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      "position": "iOS and Backend Engineer",
      "startDate": "2016-03-31",
      "summary": "I single handedly developed and continue to maintain Home Assistant Companion for iOS, a companion app to the primary Home Assistant product with over 50,000 MAUs average. I also developed numerous third party integrations to Home Assistant working hand in hand with our diverse set of developers.",
      "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/home-assistant/"
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      "company": "RTProductions",
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      "position": "Internet Consultant",
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      "summary": "Being self-employed has taught me a lot about business and the technology industry. As an Internet Consultant, I managed servers and networks, built websites, performed website maintenance, for clients both big and small. By deploying a wide range of technology I became successful among a select group of clients, all of whom I am still with today.",
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      "company": "BloomJoy (YC W18)",
      "endDate": "2019-12-31",
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      "position": "Co-Founder",
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      "summary": "BloomJoy builds media businesses for influencers. Backed by Y Combinator, Transmedia Capital, and others.\n\nI built infrastructure and applications that scaled WordPress to over 50M+ MAU and had multiple websites enter the top 100 most visited in the US Alexa ranks, enabling us to become one of the top social publishers on Facebook.",
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      "company": "SuperFeed Labs",
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      "position": "CTO",
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      "summary": "SuperFeed Labs is a full-service digital media company specializing in efficient viral growth and responding to emails in a somewhat timely fashion.\n\nOur editorial-focused machine learning helps us generate over 30M+ monthly unique visitors using a fraction of the resources it takes other publishers to do the same.\n\nI personally led all technical development and management of our websites and tools. Our original website, PizzaBottle, grew to 30M+ monthly uniques and the 54th most visited mobile website in the United States.",
      "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/superfeed-labs/"
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      "company": "Campuswire Inc",
      "endDate": "2017-12-31",
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      "position": "Lead Software Engineer",
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      "summary": "Built and maintained Go REST and WebSocket API powering real time communication and collaboration for university classrooms",
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      "company": "Gyroscope Innovations, Inc.",
      "endDate": "2015-11-30",
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      "position": "Software Engineer",
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      "summary": "As a software engineer at Gyroscope, I implemented new features and improved existing functionality in the Go backend and Python frontend. I also was the primary systems administrator. As a sysadmin, I improved existing operations by adding automation and enhancing existing monitoring systems. I also successfully migrated all operations from the AWS us-east-1 region to us-west-2 while adding in fault tolerance at every level of the infrastructure, all without causing user facing downtime.",
      "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/gyroscope-innovations-inc./"
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      "summary": "As senior engineer at MapJam, I successfully navigated a full platform transition from PHP and JSON flat file storage to node.js, Heroku and MongoDB. Later, I deployed our own own grown architecture to Amazon AWS in a multi-region, multi-AZ layout with failover and monitoring. In addition, I deployed our first OpenStreetMap infrastructure on to AWS EC2 and later Google Compute Engine.",
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      "position": "Developer and Infrastructure Engineer",
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      "summary": "Momentum OS is a provider of web based non-profit donation platforms, mostly targeting faith- based non-profits. At Momentum, I was a developer and systems administrator. I was tasked with building our infrastructure from the ground up on Heroku and Amazon Web Services, implementing a range of AWS products, in addition to competing Rackspace products.",
      "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/momentum-os-inc./"
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      "company": "Ace Monster Toys",
      "endDate": "2012-02-28",
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      "position": "Secretary",
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      "summary": "I take notes and fix broken things",
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      "endDate": "2011-12-31",
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      "position": "Partner/CTO",
      "startDate": "2011-03-31",
      "summary": "A startup I created with friends, Sutter Studios was a web app development company. As the main technical lead of Sutter Studios, I was the sole developer and system administrator. I utilized PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Node.js. I gained much experience with Amazon Web Services, Heroku and multiple API providers such as Twilio and MailGun.",
      "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/sutter-studios/"
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      "company": "All Things Media LLC",
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      "position": "Backend Developer",
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      "summary": "As All Things Media’s first full time developer, I provided backend coding in PHP/MySQL to supplement their frontends, which were all, built in Flash. I gained much customer relationship management experience dealing with clients like Mercedes Benz, Pearson Education, the Heisman Trophy Foundation and Konica Minolta. In the latter part of my tenure, I successfully created a hosting product for All Things Media to sell to existing clients. This hosting product provided me bare metal server and virtualization experience (VMWare ESXi), in addition to high availability requirements. Finally, I gained a wealth of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server experience.",
      "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/all-things-media-llc/"
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      "company": "Orinda Academy",
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      "position": "Systems Administrator",
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      "summary": "My first on the job system administrator experience presented many challenges to me. Managing a network built on cheap off the shelf hardware and components while trying to have 150 teenagers, each of which brings a laptop, iPhone and handheld gaming device to school every day is a nightmare. Using a combination of open source routers (Smoothwall and pfSense) and maximizing hardware usage let me reach the goal of perfect uptime for a full school year. In addition, I hardened the network against outside attacks and inside attacks from students trying to change grades or bypass mandatory internet filtering. Finally, this provided me my first hands on Active/Open Directory experience and client management techniques.",
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      "company": "Scott Sigler Media Team",
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      "position": "Head of Web Development",
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      "summary": "Created an internet strategy for New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of NOCTURNAL, ANCESTOR, INFECTED, CONTAGIOUS and PANDEMIC. Deployed Drupal with custom coding to create a tight knit community based around his writing which now boasts 20,000 active members.",
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      "title": "First place at Code For Oakland",
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      "summary": "I won first place at Code For Oakland, a civic hackathon held in Oakland, CA in June 2011, for my application, OakWatch, which allowed ordinary citizens to submit issues around Oakland via multiple inputs, making the city more accessible to all income levels."
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      "name": "Canadian Immigration Law",
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      "language": "en",
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  "references": [
    {
      "name": "Mahdi Yusuf",
      "reference": "Robert is well experience engineer who can fill and contribute various roles. Most of all he is a team player and will to contribute all he can to solve problems at hand. His positive attitude doesn't go unnoticed. "
    },
    {
      "name": "Scollay Petry",
      "reference": "Robbie is remarkable in several key aspects: problem solving at lightning speed; patience to explain complex concepts; and always willing help help everyone around him."
    },
    {
      "name": "David J. Rienhart",
      "reference": "Robbie is a talented & creative technologist with breadth and depth of expertise spanning UNIX / Linux & MacOS system administration, security, network engineering, telecom/VoIP, web / desktop / mobile apps development (LAMP, Ruby, Objective C, etc.), web design, physical & virtual hardware provisioning / installs, hosting & deployment. He has done numerous projects for our organization and we would hire him again / recommend him to our affiliates."
    },
    {
      "name": "Roger Wise, Ed.D.",
      "reference": "Robert served in his senior year at our high school as a volunteer systems administrator in charge of the file servers and the networked computer lab.  He worked well with the teacher in charge and handled problems in a timely and effective manner."
    },
    {
      "name": "David Boskovic",
      "reference": "Robert is highly skilled in traditional and cloud infrastructure development. While working at Momentum, he deployed and maintained a complete high high-performance cloud solution utilizing a combination of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku and other tools and platforms. In addition he's a capable software developer with an unusual passion and energy for good technology that infects everybody he works with."
    },
    {
      "name": "Scott Seibold",
      "reference": "Robbie is without a doubt one of the most knowledgable people I have ever met.  If there was a ever a problem, this guy knows how to solve it or will work diligently until it is solved.  My company and his daily worked hand in hand and I could immediately tell he is truly a lover of his work and excels at creating new ideas, opportunities, and making things happen.  His presence and talent is undeniable.  I give Robbie my highest recommendation."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ron Graydon",
      "reference": "Robert has an expertise in computers, networks, and hardware."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jesse Sung",
      "reference": "Robbie is not only extremely informative, but has the natural effect of being able to fluidly communicate his breadth of knowledge on any technical / non-technical matter intuitively.  Robbie is one of the few individuals I've known who can run into a problem but be able to figure out multiple solutions in a timely fashion.  Young, smart and has a great future ahead."
    },
    {
      "name": "Kevin Lloyd",
      "reference": "Robbie was our go-to guy for all things security and could be relied upon to either know the answer or know who knew the answer to the most obscure dev questions we threw at him. He's a hard and fast worker who can bring an idea to reality. Strongly recommend."
    },
    {
      "name": "Steve Grey",
      "reference": "Robbie is one of those rare people who seem to have more technical knowledge than can possibly fit in one person's head.  He seems to always be up-to-date on the most current technical solutions and amazes me with the breadth of his knowledge.  More importantly, he is incredibly fast and effective at solving complex technical problems.  Highly recommended."
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