brian+brianecker.com                                        www.brianecker.com

                             B r i a n   E c k e r

                                 Annapolis, MD

Profile
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Professional software development engineer with more than 9 years 
experience designing and building highly scalable services and 
applications to support a top-20 website -- 3 years as the only U.S. 
based developer. Sole architect and engineer for many comprehensive 
systems including the entire advertising infrastructure, a mission 
critical system responsible for most of the company's revenues.


Software Development Experience
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Languages and Platforms
    * C, C++, Perl, JavaScript, ActionScript, Python, Objective C, Java EE
    * Linux/Unix/BSD/POSIX, X11, Mac OS, iPhone, Palm and Win16/32 Platforms

Applications and Services
    * OOP, Moose, MultiProc/Parallel, Pthreads, Sockets and Embedded Systems
    * XML, REST and SOAP experience with SOA environments
    * Map/Reduce, Hadoop Streaming, Solr/Lucene
    * GDB, GProf/DProf, Valgrind debugging, profiling and optimization tools
    * GUI (Cocoa Touch, GTK, QT, XClass) and CLI (ANSI, Curses) UI Design
    * Video Encoding, Transcoding, Podcasting and Streaming, FLV/MP4

Web Development
    * MVC, Rails, Catalyst, Mod_perl, Mod_cgi, Mason, PHP
    * JavaScript/AJAX, ActionScript/Flash, HTML/DHTML, CSS, jQuery, RSS/MRSS
    * JSON, XML, DOM Processing
    * Widgets, usability analysis and dynamic/interactive HCI design
    * Apache, Lighttpd, Tomcat, SSL config/deploy

Databases
    * MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Berkley DB, CDB, DBI
    * Replication, Distribution and Memcache Protection
    * 3NF design principles, index performance, scalable tables, query 
      optimization

Networking
    * HTTP, SSL, RTMP(E), FTP, NFS, IMAP, SMTP, Netatalk, SMB, X11
    * TCP/IP, UDP, USB 1.1/2, DHCP, Ethernet, 802.11 a/b/g
    * Ipchains, Iptables, static routing, traffic shaping
        

Open Source Projects
    Hoopty (http://www.omegadb.net/hoopty/)
    * Creator/developer of an AJAX-like JavaScript (JSON) retrieval library

    SimpleXML (http://www.omegadb.net/simplexml/)
    * Creator/developer of a lightweight, tree based XML
      parser/generator library

    The xP E-mail System (http://xpine.sourceforge.net/)
    * Creator/developer of a graphical interface to Pine by the
      University of Washington

    CACTUX (http://www.omegadb.net/cactux/)
    * Creator/developer of a graphical PPP connection manager for Linux


Employment Experience
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Ning, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)

    Applications Development:                                Jul 2009-Present
    Software Engineer

    * Author of several pluggable components that improved social network
      security, increased engagement and improved metrics tracking & reporting

Amazon.com (Seattle, WA)

    The Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com):                  Sep 2001-Jul 2009
    Software Development Engineer

    * Sole designer and developer of several comprehensive systems:
      o Subscription/Billing/Account Management System: Real-time service; 
          administrative, reporting and analysis tools supporting thousands
          of simultaneous customers
      o Metrics: Archival collection, storing and reporting system
          containing billions of records
      o Help desk: Multi-site, message board style, SQL-based system
      o Advertising: Entire account management, trafficking, delivery and 
          reporting system, including self-service extranet
    * Designed and developed multi-threaded daemons for realtime 
      webserving tasks
    * Developed web applications and widgets in Mod_perl, Mayhem, CGI 
      and Mason
    * Author of the MOVIEmeter(TM) and STARmeter(TM) algorithms
                        
Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA)

    Center for Academic Computing:                           Sep 1998-Aug 2001
    Help Desk Consultant

    * Diagnosed Ethernet and PPP connectivity issues and supported various
      Internet client applications

    Applied Research Lab:                                    Jun 2000-Aug 2000
    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    * Research advanced applications of multi-sensor fusion, RF networking
      and embedded systems and implement research areas in software/hardware

    College of Health and Human Development:                 Feb 2000-Apr 2001
    Independent Contractor

    * Developed custom reporting and data processing software applications 

Lockheed Martin (Gaithersburg, MD)

    Enterprise Information Systems:                          Jun 1999-Jan 2000
    Software Engineer

    * Designed file/network-resource discovery module for larger application
    * Developed software maintenance/migration plans for legacy systems
    * Wrote code-parsing tools to auto-generate charts for technical
      documents

Epoch Networks (Herndon, VA)

    Internet Services Support Center:                        May 1998-Aug 1998
    ISSC Technician                                          May 1997-Aug 1997


Education
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Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA)

    Bachelor of Science: Electrical Engineering              Jun 1996-Aug 2001

    * Problem Solving in C/C++ for Engineers, Computer Architecture and Design
    * Signals and Systems Networking/Communications, Control/Feedback Systems
    * 68K, 68HC11 and MIPS Assembly Language and Architecture
    * VHDL, Verilog, Synopsys, SPICE, Logic Works, IC and Embedded Systems


References
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Available upon request.