Experience
- Things:
- HTML+CSS, jQuery, Git, Pylons, Rails, Django, Flash, OpenGL
- Languages:
- JavaScript, Python, Ruby
Familiar with ActionScript, PHP, Haskell, Java, Erlang, C
- Platforms:
- Web, Mac OS X, Windows, Ubuntu, Gentoo
Employment History
Playdom 2009 — 2010
Python Web Programmer
Mountain View, CA
- Enhanced internal web-based tools for time series analysis, advertising management, and log analysis, using JavaScript, Python, and PHP.
- Improved performance, usability, reliability, bringing more of our studios to use these tools so they can get the most out of the work they do on all of our products.
Joint Enterprise 2009
Python Web Programmer
Santa Cruz, CA
- Rapidly prototyped features and UI designs for a social networking startup.
- Contributed to Pinax, the open source platform we built it on.
GOHANLON LLC 2008 — 2009
Ruby Web Programmer
Santa Cruz, CA
- Built interactive websites with Ruby on Rails and jQuery for clients such as Shane & Peter and Fastpencil.com.
- Built several rich JavaScript interfaces for an advertising tool that makes use of statistical classification agents.
AOL 2007
Intern JavaScript Programmer
Mountain View, CA
- Built JavaScript modules for my.aol.com including an AOL instant messenger widget and an interactive photo gallery.
- Improved in-house framework security by introducing JavaScript closures to the design.
University of California2006 — 2008
Computer Science Tutor
Santa Cruz, CA
- Taught supplementary sections for Intro to Computer Science: Data Structures, covering lists, trees, and maps in C, Java, and Perl.
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Computer Science
Work Samples
See http://nickretallack.com