Doug Beaver
                        Senior Software Engineer
                         doug.beaver@gmail.com


                               Highlights

- 9 years of experience delivering enterprise-grade website applications,
  services, and architectures.

- Excellent design and documentation skills.

- Strong background in system analysis, auditing and review.

- Extensive experience in debugging, profiling, and performance tuning,
  including an uncanny ability to find and squash bugs.

- Deep understanding of operating system concepts and implementations
  across multiple flavors of Unix, including Linux, BSD and OS X.
  
- Experienced software development mentor and recruiter.

- Years of experience in mission-critical support and problem diagnosis
  for the world's largest e-commerce company, operating in an
  environment where every second of downtime equals thousands of dollars
  in lost revenue.

                            Work Experience

Amazon.com (1997 - 2004)
Software Development Engineer

  Most recent position was key member of development team enhancing and
  supporting the worldwide media serving infrastructure, which is
  responsible for serving over 50,000 media objects per second to
  external customers.  Routinely participated in design meetings with
  the company's upper echelon of developers and technical managers,
  working on critical projects including Amazon's global object store
  and global filesystem.

  Broad experience debugging website outages in an environment where
  thousands of dollars of revenue are lost every second.  Known for
  cool, calm diagnosis of issues in a very hectic, stress-filled
  environment.  During post-mortems, frequently received praise from
  upper management for my clear and detailed analysis of root causes and
  recommendations to avoid reoccurrence of outages in the future.
 
  Team lead on time-critical project to port all media services apps to
  a new deployment architecture to support a new set of geographically
  disparate data centers.  Once all teams had their services ready for
  migration, I participated in a 28 hour marathon weekend migration
  involving over a hundred of the company's top engineers and worked
  through the night to make sure the migration succeeded.  Rolling back
  the migration would have cost the company a lot of money, so there was
  a lot of pressure to make sure things went smoothly.  Needless to say,
  the stress levels were very high.

  As a member of the Website Development Platform group, I implemented
  the critical service used by Target employees to lay out and schedule
  content widgets to merchandise their own stores.  This application was
  crucial in getting Target to partner with Amazon, since they needed
  fine-grained control over merchandising of their products.  To this
  day, the product merchandizer piece of Amazon's merchant platform is
  one of the favorite features mentioned by partners.

  Member of small team tasked with designing and implementing Amazon's
  next-generation content display engine, focusing on moving from an
  antiquated in-house engine to an industry-wide solution.  Evaluated
  several presentation layer implementations to find the best fit for
  Amazon web developers that would also reduce training time and cost.
  Used my extensive Perl internals background to solve problems other
  engineers were stuck on.

  Co-developed the mechanism used to ensure safe evaluation and
  execution of Amazon's new templates, working closely with internal and
  external security engineers to ensure a secure implementation.  In
  addition to greatly increasing security, we also got a cheap 30%
  performance increase by analyzing the glue code that translates
  service results and making appropriate adjustments in the
  implementation.

  Lead developer on critical project to remove LZW-encumbered gifs from
  Amazon's image library, which required the processing of over 4
  million images in a short period of time.  Served as domain expert for
  the legal team and developed a novel solution to the problem that let
  the company keep high image quality for indexed-color images while
  also avoiding LZW issues.

  Led drive to overhaul Amazon's image tool infrastructure and took
  ownership of dozens of image querying and manipulation tools.
  Designed and implemented a distributed, autonomous, database-backed
  image processing framework used by the Design team in several projects
  to enhance the quality of Amazon's image catalog and remove obsolete
  formats.  The enhanced quality of the images led to a measurable
  increase in conversion rate on product detail pages.

  In the Catalog group, co-developed a software application that parsed
  and normalized packed product listings and inserted them into Amazon's
  item catalog.  This software processed the bulk of Amazon's new
  catalog items for a two year period.  Developed several high-velocity
  feed processing applications that normalized disparate data from
  dozens of external sources and added the scrubbed data to Amazon's
  customer and vendor reviews catalog.

  Developed extensive data mining, reporting, and analysis tools in the
  Supply Chain Optimization group, including Amazon's first demand
  forecasting software and a rules-based application that let buyers
  generate orders directly to publishers.  These tools had immediate,
  quanitifiable results, saving the company several percentage points of
  margin on publisher orders and greatly reducing surplus product in the
  warehouses.

  Represented Amazon at over ten industry technical conferences
  including OOPSLA and O'Reilly's Open Source Conference.  Worked the
  company booth, evaluated prospective hires, and participated in
  intense interview loops so offers could be extended to top applicants
  while they were still at the conference.

  Served as instructor for internal courses on Perl and software
  development.

  Served as mentor to several junior engineers.

  Interviewed over 50 candidates and phone screened over 150 candidates,
  contributing dozens of questions and problems to Amazon's internal
  database of tech interview problems.  Known and praised for my
  detailed interview feedback, giving candidates tough questions while
  treating them fairly and with respect.

Internet Entertainment Group (1996 - 1997)
Software Engineer

  Responsible for automation of several leading entertainment websites
  at one of the web's first profitable companies.  In early 1997, our
  outbound traffic saturated two DS3 links (90Mbps) almost 24 hours a
  day.
  
  Developed system for installing software images on Irix servers to
  enable quick scaling.

  Developed set of tools to automate InterNIC maintenance of a hundred
  domains, including automated renewal of domains about to expire, and
  the automatic registration of domains from a hotlist whose previous
  registrants hadn't kept their fees up to date.  This system let the
  company legally acquire several domains they wouldn't have otherwise
  been able to obtain, due to intense demand for popular domain names.

  Developed database-driven revenue reports for partners with the option
  of rendering in Excel or HTML, allowing them to visit a secure web
  server to see their revenue for the previous day.  This replaced a
  manual mechanism involving sql queries and manual
  insertion/calculation of an Excel spreadsheet.

  Transformed manual image touch-up/processing pipeline into automated
  process, saving dozens of hours of work every month.  This let the
  company launch new sites without having to hire as many graphic
  designers.

                            Key Technologies

Operating systems: Unix variants including Linux, BSD, OS X, Solaris,
SunOS, and Irix.

Languages: Java, C, C++, Objective-C, Perl, Ruby, Python.

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, BerkeleyDB, memcache.

Protocols/Middleware: HTTP, SOAP, REST, XML, Tibco Rendezvous, CORBA,
XDR, JGroups, J2EE.

Technologies:  high-performance dynamic content serving, HTTP
caches/proxies/accelerators, website engineering, performance
tuning/analysis, database access layers, object-relational mapping,
source control/branching, C/C++ link/build diagnosis, scripting
languages, sysadmin tools, storage servers, web-based workflow
applications, distributed and high-availability database-backed
services, rapid prototyping, agile software development methodologies
(XP, scrum, etc), OS X application development, content frameworks. 

                        Professional Development

Contributed to Seattle's Perl user group when it was founded in 1997,
giving presentations on:

    - Advanced Perl programming
    - Perl data structures

Second member of Seattle Ruby user's group in 2001, giving detailed
presentations on:

    - Debugging and inspecting Ruby applications
    - Useful third-party libraries to make your apps more stable or
      featureful
    - Implementing HTTP caches and proxies with the WEBrick HTTP
      framework
    - Rapid OS X application development with RubyCocoa

Member of ACM, USENIX, and IEEE professional organizations, and regular
attendee of OOPSLA.

I spend 20+ hours of my personal time every week learning about new
technologies.  I look for new perspectives or interesting patterns and
apply the resulting new outlook when solving problems.  I own an
extensive library of technical books and am always expanding my
knowledge of the software/hardware field.  I pick up new technologies
and idioms very quickly without a lot of external support, past managers
have jokingly described me as an "unstoppable learning machine".  I'm
very comfortable with Unix and can sling pipes and programs around on
the command line very quickly, a skill that was honed during years of
oncall support of Amazon's Unix-based systems.  I "get" Unix philosophy
and have written hundreds of scripts and tools to make software
development and oncall support easier at the companies I've worked for.

Personal interests include travel, cooking, world events, and cinema.

I also run a blog focused on software development titled 'Bitwise
Philosophy'.  Its url is http://blog.beaver.net.

                               Education

Associate's of Science Degree
Seattle Central Community College, Summer 2006

Bachelor's of Science Degree in Computer Science
University of Washington, Fall 2008