Tim Poon

It's all talk until the code runs.

- Ward Cunningham

I'm a senior-level architect with experience in building massively distributed systems from the ground up. I crave the gestalt of simplicity and power.

You want that. You need that. You should message me.

Specialties

• • Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Puppet, Thrift, Objective-C, Swift, Go, C++, Perl, Prolog, LISP, Vagrant
  • Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, Solr, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Percona, Apache, Nginx, Mesos, RabbitMQ, Celery, AWS
  • Django, jQuery, WordPress, PrototypeJS, CodeIgniter, Ruby, YUI, Angular, Ember, Ractive, CakePHP, Grunt
  • Machine learning, unit testing, REST, microservices, OOA/OOD, SOAP, RDMS, concurrent/parallel, AI, algorithm design, language analysis, automata
  • Unix, Mac OS, Window, Xcode, Git, GitHub, Photoshop, Illustrator, Visual Studio, Flash, MSOffice, CVS/SVN

Work Experience

• rewardStyle Senior Architect

  Lead on multiple projects, spanning frontend and backend development.

  Moved a large portion of LIKEtoKNOW.it's functionality to a fanout architecture

  • Celery and RabbitMQ backend for task queueing
  • Redis for data and user payload caching
  • Enabled fast developer environment setup with Vagrant

  Developed a distributed web crawler with integrated machine learning components

  • Architected around the idea of adding or removing as many nodes as needed for any given phase
  • Machine learning facilitates guessing the intent of any given page's contents
  • Used Puppet to ease the launching of new nodes
  • Implemented Thrift interfaces in front of crawler and other services
  • Hooked up to Jenkins for automated testing

• rewardStyle Senior UI/UX Engineer

  Lead on multiple projects, spanning frontend and backend development.

  Rewrote entire widget offerings (MoneySpot, Boutique, Lookbook, LIKEtoKNOW.it, Shop the Post)

  • Ractive / SASS / Grunt frontend build process and PHP-based Level 2 API
  • Deployed widgets are responsive, customizable, and compatible down to IE6 with raw JavaScript
  • Integrated with Cloudfront for speedy caching of pre-built and editable widgets

  Worked on the iOS app for publishers

  • Added and revamped new screens to avoid storyboard reliance

• Eyemart Express Software Developer

  Completely rebuilding the current website to include social media integration, normalize and streamline database usage, and develop the career and applications section.

  Developed internal and e-commerce applications for inventory management, logistics problem solving, and credit transactions.

  • Mapping application using geolocation, Javascript, and the Google Maps API
  • Internal inventory management for tracking frames, prices, and store information
  • Shipping logistics for optimizing lab and shipping integration

• Frame Street Software Developer

  Sole developer for online startup. (Existed under the Eyemart Express business.)

  Created a sales kiosk that would go into military bases, malls, etc.

  • Custom JavaScript framework that would live update HTML and functions from a central server with no refresh
  • Touchscreen UI research and development
  • Computer vision methodology to calculate properties of an eye through still images or video frames

  Handled the backend and e-commerce bits as well.

  • Inventory and customer-facing components built atop CakePHP
  • Custom customer service chat solution using websockets, Javascript, and Flash with a PHP server that handles user and service representative routing with priority queuing

• Yum! Brands Web Developer

  Develop web interface for software automation and store management to Yum! restaurants around the world.

  • Rebuilt internal Blaster system (intranet) for managing store information, updates, and sales data for all franchise stores

• Texas Tech University Web Designer

  Worked on redesign of the Petroleum Engineering department and Southwest Petroleum Short Course websites.

Sample Projects

• Adrenaline Rush February 2016

  Redesign of my dodgeball team Adrenaline Rush's website. This was a weekend project to replace a bloated, mostly broken CakePHP thing.

  • Uses relative scroll calculations to give some flair to a mostly text-based info dump
  • Integrates Gulp to build and minify deployment files and assets
  • Small Flask app to process contact form requests

• dotcom May 2015

  Redesign of my personal site. The previous iteration was slapped up in an afternoon just to have something up.

  • Utilizes CSS3 shenanigans like animations and transitions for the Writer effect and sliding displays
  • Wrote a rudimentary physics simulation for the canvas-based animation on the Developer effect
  • Manipulated image data from the canvas in web workers for the water waves in the Contact section

• Elite Dodgeball April 2015

  Redesign of the Elite Dodgeball website. Last one was terribly managed by WordPress and required manually editing static pages.

  • Runs on top of Django to facilitate the backend management of teams, events, news, etc.
  • Designed and developed from scratch to be responsive
  • Tests written to ensure changes down the line don't break what already works

Relvant Education

• Texas Tech University Undergraduate

  Computer science and mathematics

  • 3.9 GPA
  • President's List, Dean's List, Engineering Honor Student, Honors College student, Honor Merit Award, President's Award
  • IEEE, ACM, NSCS, Tech Gaming League