Brian Ecker

Annapolis, MD

• Go, C, C++, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Python, Objective C, Java, Erlang
• Linux/Unix/BSD/POSIX, X11, macOS, iOS Platforms
• Makefile, Maven, NPM, Git, Subversion, Hudson/Jenkins, Pulse, Selenium

• OOP, MultiProc/Parallel, Pthreads, Sockets and Embedded Systems
• HTTP REST (JSON/XML/ATOM) 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/H.264/MP4

• MVC, Zend, FuelPHP, Mod_perl, Mod_cgi, Mason, Rails, Flask, Node.js
• jQuery/AJAX/COMET, React/Flux, HTML5, ECMAScript 7, CSS3, Gulp
• WebSockets, localStorage, postMessage web application design
• I18N design with ICU, Gettext, UTF-8/Unicode NLS internationalization
• Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd, Jetty, SSL config/deploy

• MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Berkley DB, Redis, CDB, DBI, SQLAlchemy
• Replication, Distribution and Memcache Protection
• 3NF design, index performance, scalable tables, query optimization

Hoopty (http://www.omegadb.net/hoopty/)

• Created an AJAX-like JavaScript (JSON) retrieval library

SimpleXML (http://www.omegadb.net/simplexml/)

• Created a lightweight, tree based XML parser/generator library

• Led TCFv2 reorganization and development
• Built Pixel Assistant that embeds dashboard controls in customer websites

• Designed and built realtime data collection healthcheck service
• Led GDPR compliance technical architecture & development
• Arch & eng service to monitor Javascript module integrity
• Developed lightweight "experiments" service to deploy tests across precisely defined, large-scale website groups

• Worked with small incubator team to build / launch SendRoll
  • Built React / Flux based dashboard and created shared / reusable components for larger org
  • Wrote API service in Erlang to handle 3rd party shopping data
  • Architected subscription system for flexible billing model

• Led the architecture and engineering for next generation of Mode O&O web applications
• Built a personalized newsfeed from friends' network activity powering the Mode.com homepage
• Improved content object storage from SQL to flexible schema Redis based
• Profiled codebase, improved site wide runtime performance by 50%, lowered execution cost by 80%
• Coordinated with Infrastructure, Mobile and Legacy Application Architects on engineering designs

• Foodie.com: Rebuilt website to make content discovery, social networking and user engagement primary features
• Bookmarklet: Wrote cross-browser extension using Natural Language Processing to normalize and collect recipes from websites
• Maps: Created restaurant search map using GeoIP and GPS data to show social network activity of restaurants in Google Maps presentation
• Metrics: Integrated analytics and behavioral metrics tracking

• Paid Access: Developed system allowing website owners to create/manage subscription paywalls to some or all parts of their website
• Followers: Extended existing Network-Friend system to support asymmetrical Twitter-like "Following" relationships
• Foreign Currency: Added support for non-USD currencies, GeoIP detection, custom pricing, localized formatting
• iBazel: Converted entire social networking platform from single application freemium model to three distinct products in 7 weeks

• Sole designer and developer of several comprehensive systems:
  • Subscription/Billing/Account Management System: Real-time service; administrative, reporting and analysis tools
  • Advertising: CRM, trafficking/delivery reporting system, and self-service extranet
  • Metrics: Archival collection/storing/reporting system for billions of records
  • Help desk: Multi-site, message board style, SQL-based system
• Author of the MOVIEmeter^TM and STARmeter^TM algorithms

• Focus on Computer and Communication Systems