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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 Systems and Backend Programmer</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>10+ 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/MariaDB, Cassandra/Scylla, Mongo;<br/>
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Nginx, Caddy, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK stack, Ansible, GCE;<br/>
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Many flavors of Linux; Docker.
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<em>5+ 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 which I could easily pick back up.
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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 Developer<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 Go-based framework for implementing
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microservices which automatically handled configuration,
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logging, health checks, metrics, RPC/service discovery,
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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 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>Open-Source/Personal Projects</h4>
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<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher">github.com/mediocregopher</a>
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contains much of my public work. Most of it is throw-away
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projects, but listed here are a few which are actively
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developed and much loved.
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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 one of the recommended Redis drivers for Go,
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<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/radix">radix</a>.
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Author of one of <a href="https://dehub.dev">dehub</a>, a
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git project hosting platform baked into the project's
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commit history itself. It's not much used, even by me, but
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it's functional and I'm proud of it.
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Working on an unreleased project, where we are creating
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the foundation for community-run cloud infrastructures.
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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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You can follow the progress of the language at
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<a
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href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com/2021/12/31/ginger-its-alive.html">blog.mediocregopher.com</a>.
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Author of small art projects such as
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<a href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com/2021/07/01/viz-7.html">viz</a>
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and others featured at
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<a href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com">blog.mediocregopher.com</a>,
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mostly written in Clojure.
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