Dan Shiovitz's Resume

5004 29th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98108

Dan Shiovitz

(206) 861-9164
dbs@cs.wisc.edu

Principal Software Engineer, Impinj	3/15 - present
Worked on the software solution that provided simplified configuration, management, data analysis, and advanced job control for Impinj's fixed-mount RFID reader products. Led design on system architecture, API, and domain model Designed and developed major components for messaging, job scheduling, data processing, etc Provided technical support to internal and external customers around proper interaction with the system

Lead Software Engineer, zulily	4/14 - 3/15
Senior Software Engineer, zulily	5/12 - 4/14
Developer and eventual team lead for software for running zulily's warehouses - responsibilities covered tools for individual workers and managers to use; reporting applications for the warehouse as a whole; and back-end services for conveyor-belt control and and planning flows of goods. Team lead on 4-5 person team: managed projects and ensured things were delegated appropriately and done on schedule, as well as doing hands-on development Led migration from monolithic windows-stack application to microservices-based linux-stack architecture, while the application was in continuous use and without causing data errors or downtime Developed pull-model zero-downtime continuous deployment system, with self-monitoring and automatic rollback, integrated with the services management configuration Led design of new architecture when warehouse transitioned to new picking/packing system with addition of new conveyor hardware

Senior Engineer/Architect, OCS (acquired 8/11 by National Research Corporation)	3/10 - 5/12
Worked on NRC's suite of products for healthcare survey presentation, data processing, analysis, and reporting. Took over development and maintenance on software site with limited transition from previous developers Designed and developed client and server to automatically gather patient data from customer sites with limited network capabilities

Principal Software Design Engineer, Marchex	3/09 - 3/10
Had roles on multiple teams for Marchex's various sites and offerings. Completed migration from old reporting process to new, including confirmation of data integrity and deprecation of old servers Worked on pay-per-call backend, focusing on data feeds for frontend

Senior Specialist - Software Engineering, Idearc Media	11/07 - 3/09
Worked on localsearch.com, Idearc's experimental intelligent yellow pages search. Led technical design and development on localsearch.com Mentored other team members

Staff Engineer, Infospace	1/04 - 11/07
Did development work on a variety of Infospace's web products. Did majority of rewrite of dogpile.com and metacrawler.com, moving them from their respective backends onto a single common platform which was both more performant and more flexible than either of its originals

Languages: Java, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, Javascript, Bash, others ad-hoc
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows XP through 7
Concepts: Networking, HTTP, REST, Backend/Frontend, Local Search, Concept Extraction, Domain-Specific Languages, Microservices

I have a variety of (mostly technical) interests outside of work. Some of my more interesting academic and personal projects include:

A hexmap plugin for mediawiki.
Notes on alphabet-free perl programming.
Bad Machine: An sf text adventure written in TADS. Play online and see what your computer is dreaming about.
Snap! The amazing new programming language! More information at http://inky.org/if/snap/
WAWA (The Wisconsin Adaptive Web Assistant): A neural-net based web search agent in Java and C that learns the user's preferences and uses them to guide its searching.

M.S. (Computer Science)	University of Wisconsin-Madison	9/97 - 5/99
B.S. (Computer Science) and B.A. (English)	University of Washington	9/91 - 6/97

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