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<h1 style="margin-bottom:1rem;">Brian Picciano</h1>
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<h2 style="margin-bottom:0;font-size:2rem;">Senior Backend Engineer</h2>
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<h2 style="font-size:1.8rem;">University of Florida 2013 · BS Software Engineering · Mathematics Minor</h2>
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<em>12+ years</em> of experience across backend systems,
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databases, and application development. Passionate about
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clean interfaces, good documentation, and open source.
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<strong>Extensively experienced with:</strong><br/>
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Go, Javascript-HTML-CSS, Nix, Bash, Lua, Clojure, Erlang;<br/>
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Redis, Postgres, Cassandra/Scylla, Mongo;<br/>
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Nginx, Caddy, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK stack;<br/>
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Many flavors of Linux; Docker.
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<em>7+ years</em> of experience working remotely as a
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developer. Well-versed in communicating over Slack, Zoom,
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and email, and in maintaining good working relationships
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across large timezone differences.
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I also have past experience with many other languages and
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tools that I could easily pick back up.
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<h4>Open-Source</h4>
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I publish all my personal work to
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<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher">GitHub</a>
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and
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<a href="https://code.betamike.com/mediocregopher">Gitea</a>.
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I frequently document the progress of my various projects
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on <a href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com">my blog</a>.
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Author of
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<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/radix">radix</a>,
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one of the recommended Redis drivers for Go.
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Primary author of <a href="https://code.betamike.com/cryptic-io/cryptic-net">cryptic-net</a>,
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a foundation for a community-run cloud infrastructure.
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Author of <a href="https://code.betamike.com/mediocregopher/dehub">dehub</a>,
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a git project hosting platform baked into the project's
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commit history itself. (It's not much used, even by me,
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but it's functional and I'm proud of it.)
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Long-term work on a toy (so far)
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<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/ginger">programming language</a>.
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<h4>Cryptowatch</h4>
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May 2019 - Present<br/>
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Lead Backend Engineer<br/>
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<a href="https://cryptowat.ch">Cryptowatch</a>, a
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subsidiary of
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<a href="https://kraken.com">Kraken</a>, is a
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multi-exchange cryptocurrency trading and analytics
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platform, as well as an up-and-coming crypto social
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media platform.
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As a BE dev lead of a 4-person accounts/payments
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sub-team, responsible for:
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Architecture design, proposals, standards,
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documentation, and JIRA tickets.
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One-on-ones and evaluations of all team members, as
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well as the hiring of new team members.
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Code reviews, deployments, and, occasionally, even
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development work.
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Oversaw projects such as:
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Migration of all accounts and payments functionality
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from a monolith into microservices.
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Migration to a JWT-based authentication/session
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system.
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"Magic button," a project to funnel Kraken users
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into CW while pre-installing API keys into their
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account.
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Worked with the Kraken security team to triage and fix a
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large portion of security issues brought up during
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audits and bug bounties. Included addition of
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proof-of-work checks to many sensitive endpoints and
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complete overhaul of how settings were stored.
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Designed and implemented an alerts platform capable of
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alerting users based on arbitrary complex rulesets.
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<h4>Admiral</h4>
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May 2015 - January 2018<br/>
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Co-Founder<br/>
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Senior Backend Engineer<br/>
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<a href="https://getadmiral.com">getadmiral.com</a> is a
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platform to help publishers analyze and recover revenue
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being lost due to adblocking users.
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Wrote a custom analytics platform in Go, using Google
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BigTable as backing store and Redis/Mongo as aggregation
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caches. Handled a global load of >27 million new rows
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an hour, with up-to-the-hour analytics for all
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customers.
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Implemented a custom, dc-aware service discovery system
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for our microservices-based app, using Etcd &
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SkyDNS. Included health checking, metrics,
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rolling-restarts, and more.
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Designed a Go-based framework for implementing
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microservices, which automatically handled
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configuration, logging, health checks, metrics,
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RPC/service discovery, and more.
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Implemented an internal RFC process for new product
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features and maintained the internal technical
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documentation wiki.
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Contributed to designing and implementing the
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provisioning/deployment system using Ansible, and began
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work on migrating to Kubernetes.
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<h4>Grooveshark</h4>
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Senior Systems Engineer (from intern)<br/>
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2010 - Apr 2015<br/>
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Grooveshark was a web-based music streaming site in the
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same vein as Spotify.
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Wrote client-to-client communication server in Erlang
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(with Redis backend) which served as the backbone of the
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Broadcasts feature, where users host their own
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radio-like channels, complete with voting, real-time
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chat, and moderation.
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Designed and implemented the Feeds feature using PHP and
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Mongo, where users could see the recent listening
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activites of their friends in a Facebook-like feed.
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Managed and fine-tuned LAMP stack, as well as oversaw
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migration from Apache to nginx/php-fpm. Maintained
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complex nginx setup, including use of the lua-scripting
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module on some domains.
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Wrote and maintained the deployment scripts for frontend
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code, and contributed significantly to the Chef-based
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provisioning system.
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Initiated and oversaw the migration of frontend devs
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from using a shared development server to individual
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Vagrant setups.
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<h4>About This Site</h4>
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The design of this site is based on the layout and color theme of
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the IDE I use for all my development. I use
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<a href="https://neovim.io/">Neovim</a> in a terminal, with the
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<a href="https://github.com/NLKNguyen/papercolor-theme">Papercolor</a>
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theme for readability.
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The server hosting this site, and all of my other services, lives
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in my living room.
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function getScrollPct() {
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const heightOfWindow = window.innerHeight,
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contentScrolled = window.pageYOffset,
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bodyHeight = document.body.offsetHeight;
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if(bodyHeight - contentScrolled <= heightOfWindow) {
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return "Bot";
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} else if (contentScrolled == 0) {
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return "Top";
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} else {
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const total = bodyHeight - heightOfWindow,
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got = contentScrolled,
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percent = parseInt((got/total) * 100);
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return percent + "%"
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}
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}
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const scrollposEl = document.getElementById("scrollpos");
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scrollposEl.textContent = getScrollPct();
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window.addEventListener("scroll", (event) => {
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scrollposEl.textContent = getScrollPct();
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});
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</script>
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</body>
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</html>
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