Derek Ries

iamderekries@gmail.com

Technology Experience / Skills

Languages:

Javascript (expert), TypeScript (expert), Python (proficient), C# (proficient), Rust (proficient), SQL (proficient), Go (proficient), C/C++ (prior experience).

Other Technologies & Skills:

Angular, React, Storybook, Canvas, WebGL / OpenGL, MapboxGL.js, Leaflet, Websockets, OpenAPI (and REST as a concept), Protocol Buffers, gRPC (and RPC in general), Postgres, PostGIS, OGC Standards (WFS, WMS, WPS), Protocol and Binary file format Reverse Engineering.

Work Experience

2017 October - Current. BigBear.AI
Sr. Software Engineer
Lead the development of several web application projects, most notably, a client-heavy geospatial search, visualization and analysis tool that allows users to dynamically style large datasets and surface contextually important analytical information. Built using TypeScript, Protocol Buffers, and WebGL.

Also lead the development of implementing a shared component library through Storybook to build out more consistent looking applications faster and easier.
Lead shift to Typescript and formalizing existing API’s with OpenAPI. Also developed tooling to generate Types, Runtime Validation, and Network Client code for Typescript from the OpenAPI Specification.
Developed a tool for labeling training data for ML Models and then validating the resulting classified data.

2015 - Current. Self Employed
Freelance Web Developer & Programmer
Developed several websites using python and jekyll for clients. Wrote some scripts for clients that automated large portions of their workflow process. Also, reverse engineered several file formats for clients looking to integrate with blackbox software.

2014 September - 2015 March. Mozilla Corporation
UX Developer / Designer (Contract)
Responsible for redesigning the UX for a large portion of the Mozilla Support website/forums. Optimized the user-signup portion to increase the rate of successful registrations from start to finish. Redesigned the community leaderboard to also function as a tool for community managers to get useful metrics out of. Also implemented designs as a series of Web Components to ease integration into the platform.

2013 June - September. Mozilla Corporation
Web Engineer - Intern
Responsible for building out an internal application, Kanbanzilla, and several open-source components on top of Bugzilla to help optimize the workflow around bug triaging and completing feature requests. Used AngularJS and Flask to build out both the client and server sides of the application. Kanbanzilla is a Trello-like kanban board directly integrated with the Bugzilla platform.

Education

Art Institute of California, San Diego
September 2013
B.S. Web Design and Interactive Media
GPA: 3.6

Personal Projects

Please refer to my Portfolio