Software Engineer
Alex Wheeler
Software Developer @view-the-space . Former: @devpost , @groundsignal, @hackny
Software Developer @view-the-space . Former: @devpost , @groundsignal, @hackny
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Experience
Software Engineer Apprentice
(Apprenticeship Senior year of university) Wrote algorithms (read: heuristics since most are non-deterministic) to socially enrich geo-tagged content. A cool example would... more be understanding how we can infer someone's home zip code via the location and timestamps of social media posts. Layering their current role at a given company we can estimate their income, etc. Built client-side data visualizations to help users explore this enriched data.
Ruby, PostGIS, ElasticSearch, JavaScript
Ruby, PostGIS, ElasticSearch, JavaScript
Software Engineering Intern
Worked on the software engineering team during my summer as a HackNY fellow (http://hackny.org/fellows/). Shipped some really fun features such as Github/Facebook integrations,... more improved user sign up workflow, and even page showing popular/trending software projects on the app.
Ruby, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Postgresql, Redis
Ruby, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Postgresql, Redis
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Since joining VTS we've added 5 billion+ sqft (as of clicking save on this form) to the platform. A majority of that data passed through APIs, applications, and data pipelines built by my team - integrations. Its pretty rad to be able to say if a computer can store it we can import it regardless of the language, character encoding, or size.
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What's your favorite non-business book?
Barbarian Days