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<h1 style="margin-bottom:0;">Brian Picciano</h1>
<h5 style="margin-bottom:0;font-size:2rem;">Senior Systems and Backend Programmer</h5>
<h5 style="font-size:1.8rem;">University of Florida 2013 · BS Software Engineering · Mathematics Minor</h5>
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<a href=".">bgpicciano.com</a><br/>
<a href="mailto:bgpicciano@gmail.com"/>bgpicciano@gmail.com</a><br/>
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher"/>github.com/mediocregopher</a><br/>
<a href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com">blog.mediocregopher.com</a><br/>
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8 years of experience across backend systems, databases, and
application development. Passionate about clean code, good
documentation, and open source.
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<strong>Extensively experienced with:</strong><br/>
Go, Erlang, Lua, Bash, PHP;<br/>
Nginx, Redis, Mongo, Cassandra/BigTable;<br/>
Ansible, ELK stack, CentOS/RHEL, Archlinux, GCE.
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<strong>Familiar with:</strong><br/>
Ruby, Python, C, Javascript;<br/>
MySQL/MariaDB, Prometheus/Grafana, Chef;<br/>
Ubuntu/Debian, CoreOS, AWS, Kubernetes/Docker.
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<h4>Admiral</h4>
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May 2015 - January 2018<br/>
Co-Founder<br/>
Senior Backend Developer<br/>
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<a href="https://getadmiral.com">getadmiral.com</a> is a
platform to help publishers analyze and recover revenue
being lost due to adblocking users.
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Wrote a custom analytics platform in Go, using Google
BigTable as backing store and Redis/Mongo as aggregation
caches. Handled a global load of &gt;27 million new rows
an hour, with up-to-the-hour analytics for all
customers.
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Implemented a custom, dc-aware service discovery system
for our microservices based app, using Etcd &amp;
SkyDNS. Included health checking, metrics,
rolling-restarts, and more.
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Designed Go-based framework for implementing
microservices which automatically handled configuration,
logging, health checks, metrics, RPC/service discovery,
and more.
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Implemented an internal RFC process for new product
features and maintained the internal technical
documentation wiki.
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Contributed to designing and implementing the
provisioning/deployment system using Ansible, and began
work on migrating to Kubernetes.
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<h4>Grooveshark</h4>
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Senior Systems Engineer (from intern)<br/>
2010 - Apr 2015<br/>
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Grooveshark was a web-based music streaming site in the
same vein as Spotify.
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Wrote client-to-client communication server in Erlang
(with Redis backend) which served as the backbone of the
Broadcasts feature, where users host their own
radio-like channels, complete with voting, real-time
chat, and moderation.
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Designed and implemented Feeds feature using PHP and
Mongo, where users could see the recent listening
activites of their friends in a Facebook-like feed.
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Managed and fine-tuned LAMP stack, as well as oversaw
migration from Apache to nginx/php-fpm. Maintained
complex nginx setup, including use of the lua-scripting
module on some domains.
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Wrote and maintained the deployment scripts for frontend
code, and contributed significantly to the Chef-based
provisioning system.
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Initiated and oversaw the migration of frontend devs
from using a shared development server to individual
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>
contains all public work. Most of it is throw-away projects,
but listed here are a few which are actively developed and
much loved.
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Author of one of the recommended Redis drivers for Go,
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/radix.v2">radix.v2</a>,
and its much improved sequel,
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/radix">radix/v3</a>.
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Author of
<a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/mediocre-go-lib">mediocre-go-lib</a>,
a Go framework used for personal projects and similar in
style to the one written for Admiral.
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Main contributor to <a href="https://github.com/mc0/okq">okq</a>,
a simple, fast, and scalable job server written in Go
and backed by Redis. Used at both Grooveshark and
Admiral for extremely high-throughput loads.
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Author of small art projects such as
<a href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com/2018/11/12/viz-2.html">viz</a>
and others featured at
<a href="https://blog.mediocregopher.com">blog.mediocregopher.com</a>,
mostly written in Clojure.
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