Mike McCreavy’s Resume: Silicon Valley Software Engineer, Developer, Architect

Mike McCreavy

Silicon Valley Software Engineer

Mountain View, CA

650-200-0202

mike@mccreavy.com

Objective

Using bleeding-edge technology, I'm looking to design and implement web-based solutions to all your problems.

Skills

C/C++	1987-Present	Known to dream in C.
Python	1996-1998, 2010-Present	In-house development utilities. Embedded Python Runtime into a larger application to allow end-user scripting. Got back into Python in 2010 after joining Luminate to support their Django-driven website.
Perl	2006-Present	Perl is not evil if you agree that writing readable, maintainable Perl is a Good Thing. PerlGolf can be fun, it's just a crime to commit it.
PHP	2000-Present	Smarty templates, PEAR, Zend engine C/C++ extensions, session management, LAMP solutions. Comfortable rebuilding mod_php with support for bigmath, gdlib, CURL, SQLite, or custom extensions.
Javascript	1997-Present	AJAX, AJACS, GoogleMaps Hacking, Firebug, HTTPFox, Chatzilla Codebase, Cross-Browser programming, JQuery, prototype.js.
Java	1997-Present	Browser-aware applets, full standalone applications, JSP, JSP templates, J2EE JavaBeans, Weblogic EJBs, AWT, Swing, JDBC, RMI, JNI, javax.comm, Hadoop.
SQL	1993-Present	MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Cloudscape, SQLite dialects. Triggers, Data normalization skills, Complex compound queries. Light MySQL administration skills: slow query detection, hot backups, basic replication.
HTML/CSS	1996-Present	Can create clean, functional HTML pages with styles abstracted into Stylesheets.
XML/XSLT	1999-2003	Java and C Xerces libraries to both generate and parse (SAX and DOM) XML. Xalan for XSLT transformations, expat library for non-validating C parser.
x86 Assembly	1996-2000	Read only; a familiarity with x86 assembly is useful when tracking down compiler optimization bugs. I may not know the op-codes by heart, but my Michael Abrash reference book is never far away.
68K/PowerPC Assembly	1987-1996	Wrote large programs in 68k assembly. As the industry moves away from low-level languages, an understanding of assembly is still a good thing to have when writing performance critical routines or driver software.

Experience

Luminate, Incorporated

Mountain View, CA

Coder, 9/2010 - Present

Client-side Javascript and Server-side Python to render dynamically-placed, context-appropriate ads on publishers' sites. Integrate with external ad networks to source advertising content.
Projects: Django Site Redesign, Ask Santa, Realtime Ad Serving (using Java, Hadoop, SQLAlchemy, Memcached, etc), and near-realtime Analytics and Reporting (using Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, etc).

LiveOps, Incorporated

Santa Clara, CA

Principal Engineer, 11/2009 - 9/2010

Scrummaster.

Staff Engineer, 4/2008 - 12/2009

Projects: Realtime Monitoring.
Technologies: JQuery, prototype.js, MySQL (MegaQueries), ActiveMQ, Map Reduce, Hadoop.

Senior Engineer, 2/2006 - 4/2008

Projects: Chatzilla, Web 2.0 Website Infrastructure.
Technologies: Venkman, AJAX, IRC, Nagios.

Telephia, Incorporated

San Francisco, CA

Senior Principal Wireless Platform Architect, 1/2004 - 2/2006

Architected the abstraction of core data processing streams away from a legacy hardware collection platform.
Implemented replacement for aforementioned legacy hardware collection platform.
Leveraged capabilities of new hardware collection tools to provide robust datasets of greater precision, accuracy, and quality.
Integrated new logging and reporting mechanisms into process flow to create easily defensible output.
Maintained strictly controlled release dates to avoid impacting revenue cycles.
This new process is used to create datasets that generate more than 15 million dollars worth of revenue annually.

Senior Software Developer, 12/2000 - 7/2001

Responsible for application's client/server distributed architecture.
Distributed tasks to team members best-suited to solve and implement solutions.
Mentored junior developers, aided in integrating their work into production.
Selected and purchased hardware for prototype systems.
Wireless Standards: CDMA, GSM, tdMA, Amps.

Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Exton, PA

Technical Lead, SelectServer, 1/1997 - 4/1999

Led a team through all aspects of design, implementation, documentation, certification, and release of SelectServer – a product binding MicroStation site administrators with Bentley Systems.
Completely redesigned MicroStation/J’s licensing technology (node-locked and pooled) to integrate with SelectServer and dynamically report licensing statistics back to Bentley.

Software Developer, ModelServer Publisher Team, 6/1997 - 4/1998

Responsible for administrator’s web interface to ModelServer Publisher: an HTML interface integrated directly into Netscape Enterprise Server’s own administration pages.

Technical Lead, MicroStation 95 & SE for PowerMacintosh, 1/1996 - 4/1999

Implemented Macintosh-specific GUI layer, building some behaviors from scratch (toolboxes, dockable windows, tooltips, etc) when the MacOS did not provide a native equivalent.
Ported and optimized MicroStation’s bytecode compiler and runtime for the PowerPC architecture.
Added Macintosh support for RenderWare QuickVision (similar to OpenGL) rendering.
Tracked fixes and coordinated support and priority builds for 3 years.

Software Developer, MicroStation V5, 1/1994 - 12/1995

Created cross-platform installer technology for the Macintosh, Windows, and Unix variants of MicroStation V5.
Quickly intimated myself with 12,000,000 lines of professional code while fixing a multitude of bugs discovered during the product’s certification phase.

Tidbits

Governor, Toastmasters District 4, Area G4, 2012
Vice-President Public Relations, Macintalkers Toastmasters
Certification: Situational Leadership II, 2010
Certification: Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer, 2010
Award: LiveOps Nobel Award, 2008
Award: Bentley Service Provider Award, 1996
Award: Bentley Pinch Hitter, 1995
Fun: Getting checks from Donald Knuth for finding bugs in TAOCP.
Fun: Avid participant in Peer To Peer (P2P) distributed network tool development.