Samuel Newbold

• Replaced Django-haystack with elasticutils and elasticsearch-py, including the percolation and the main casting search (producing an observable improvement in site speed); byline search, bug fixes, production and technical support. • Collected requirements and helped design the migration from Zuora to Stripe. Identified the whole menagerie of subscriptions in Backstage's Zuora setup, and programmatically classified all but the first trial billing run.

• Trained non-technical marketing staff in coding control-flow into triggered CheetahMail email templates. • Helped develop, document, integrate partners, and do production support of OTA/HTNG-compatible APIs, using Python, awk, Ansible, shell scripts, make, and git in a large legacy codebase based on Webware for Python.

• Received requirements from and explained results to biologists without a computational background. Presented findings at biology and bioinformatics lab meetings and an institute-wide poster session. • Created pipelines integrating bioinformatics tools with make, awk, Perl, and gnuplot. Used these pipelines to analyze ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, and likely secondary structures of co-regulated RNA.

• Implemented the feed to load data into a Netezza database in parallel with MySQL • Simplified the reporting pipeline between the web servers and the database to reduce versioning issues. • Found, fixed and documented issues with the reporting pipeline, while naming it, that had caused observed and latent corruption.

• Single-handedly converted the message object from C-style to C++-style usage in 14,000 lines of code, amongst other fixes (some in FORTRAN), and production support on the most used function on the Bloomberg Terminal • Implemented a data feed of each message sent to MSG scraping, which became the feed for several later services. • Shepherded weekly merges of hundreds of commits from the team's subversion repository to the central RCS.

• C Developer on ad server, usually reporting directly to the CTO. Made enhancements and did production support for a continuously running system that was doing billions of impressions. • Built test harness for, redesigned, rewrote and optimized the service that wrote to the MySQL reporting database.

• Developed a course on Windows Explorer, a curriculum on Adobe Premier, and other consulting projects.

• Designed and implemented algorithm to parse arbitrarily nested columns in PDF better than Adobe Reader.

• Designed, wrote and documented a C program and GUI to execute a test procedure for a battery charger. Upgraded AC Source ROM chips, to fix a bug I had submitted to the manufacturer.

Certificates in Applications of Computing and Engineering Physics