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<title>Brian Picciano - Senior Systems and Backend Programmer - Resume</title>
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<p style="float: right">Last updated: Aug 2018</p>
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<p><a href="Brian_Picciano-Senior_Systems_and_Backend_Programmer-Resume.pdf">
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<h1 style="margin-bottom:0;">Brian Picciano</h1>
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<h5 style="font-size:2rem;">Senior Systems and Backend Programmer</h5>
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<a href=".">bgpicciano.com</a><br/>
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<a href="mailto:bgpicciano@gmail.com"/>bgpicciano@gmail.com</a><br/>
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<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher"/>github.com/mediocregopher</a><br/>
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<a href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com">blog.mediocregopher.com</a><br/>
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<p>
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8 years of experience across backend systems, databases, and
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application development. Passionate about clean code, good
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documentation, and open source.
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<strong>Extensively experienced with:</strong><br/>
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Go, Erlang, Lua, Bash, PHP;<br/>
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Redis, Mongo, Cassandra/BigTable;<br/>
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CentOS/RHEL, Archlinux, GCE.
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<strong>Moderately experienced with:</strong><br/>
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Ruby, Python, C, Javascript;<br/>
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ElasticSearch, MySQL/MariaDB;<br/>
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Ubuntu/Debian, CoreOS, AWS, Kubernetes/Docker.
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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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<li>
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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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</li>
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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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</li>
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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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</li>
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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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<li>
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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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</li>
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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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</li>
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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 all public work. Most of it is throw-away projects,
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but listed here are a few which are actively developed and
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much loved.
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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.v2">radix.v2</a>,
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and its much improved sequel,
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<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/radix.v3">radix.v3</a>.
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</li>
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Author of
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<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/mediocre-go-lib">mediocre-go-lib</a>,
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a Go framework used for personal projects and similar in
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style to the one written for Admiral.
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</li>
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Main contributor to <a href="https://github.com/mc0/okq">okq</a>,
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a simple, fast, and scalable job server written in Go
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and backed by Redis. Used at both Grooveshark and
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Admiral for extremely high-throughput loads.
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Author of small art projects such as
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<a href="https://mediocregopher.com/viz/2">mediocregopher.com/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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<h4>Outside of work</h4>
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<li>Rock climber and backpacker.</li>
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Organizer of the
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<a href="https://cryptic.house">Dumbathon</a>,
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an annual hackathon of sorts.
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<li>Competitive Super Smash Bros. Player.</li>
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Attained 100% completion of Super Meat Boy video game.
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