Trisdan Leyson
1110 Cypress Ave.
Apt. 204
San Mateo, CA 94401
(415) 672-9478
trisdan.leyson@gmail.com
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Employment
Software Engineer at TalentBin (Sep 2015 – )
- Sole developer on an internal Java application in Play Framework 2.2; front end used JQuery, Ractive, Bootstrap; MySQL database.
- Worked with product team and internal customers to conceive and deliver features.
- Navigated and improved legacy code.
- From Jul 2017: transferred to platform team. Worked on identity resolution system for social profiles in Python and Pandas, plus various other data processing and data storage systems.
- Worked on APIs, some for the TalentBin web application and some for other teams inside the company.
- Managed and mentored summer intern projects.
- Did tech talks for the engineering team.
English Tutor at Yuba College Writing and Language Development Center (Jan 2009 – May 2011)
- Worked closely with students to refine language, analytical, and rhetorical skills.
- Interpreted instructor comments and assignments and communicated this understanding to students.
- Kept careful records of activities within the center using the AccuTrack and TutorTrac systems.
- Modeled good student behavior.
Education
B.S. in Computer Science at University of California, Davis (Jul 2011 – Dec 2014)
General course; emphasis on programming languages, algorithms, and discrete math. Coursework equivalent to a minor in math.
A.A. in Arts and Humanities, Yuba College (Jan 2007 – May 2011)
General education.
Selected Projects
- Robot arm control system
- http://github.com/tsleyson/JointMove.
- Skills: C++, low-level programming, object-oriented design.
- Sound Change Modeler
- https://github.com/tsleyson/PySounds2.
- Skills: Python, regular expressions, scripting, GUIs (TKinter), Unicode.
- Document preparer for Amazon Kindle publishing
- https://github.com/tsleyson/kindle_pub_formatter.
- Skills: Clojure, JSON, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, Unicode.
- Population simulator
- https://github.com/tsleyson/MadokaPopulation
- Skills: Clojure, functional programming, GUIs, Quil
Skills
Programming
- Python, Java, Clojure, Javascript
- HTML, CSS
- Play Framework 2.2, Spring, Hibernate
- JQuery, Ractive.js, Bootstrap
- Pandas
Other
- Writing; maintain a technical blog, The Poetry of Computer Science (http://porgionesanke.wordpress.com).