John Reed is a resident of the Northern Virginia / DC area. He is an avid programmer with a long history of working on personal projects. Professionally, he is an Amazon employee. In his personal time, he enjoys tabletop board games, acroyoga, DDR, and billiards.
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John-Michael Reed
About
Loves working on personal projects, can quickly pick up various languages and frameworks, free to relocate.
Employment History
Amazon AWS Engineer – Virtual Private Cloud Dec 2016 - Current
I started by doing fleet/ops work with Ruby scripts, then end-to-end testing of AWS APIs using a framework written in Scala, then paginating APIs written in Java. At the time of writing I am decoupling two of our services so that they do not directly access a shared database.
Backend Scala Developer – Accenture June 2016 - July 2016
Apache Kafka, Streaming, Zookeeper, Big Data
Educatio
University of Florida, Gainesville 2012 - Dec. 2015
Computer Science Major, Management Minor
Personal Experiences
• My current personal project is a functional imperative programming language called Rascal (Ruby + Haskell)
Backend Scala Developer Fort Lauderdale FL Sept. 2015 - July 2016
• Open source Scala development with a focus on backend and middle tier data/networking.
• Released debugging/logging extension with 97+ stars on GitHub: https://github.com/JohnReedLOL/scala-trace-debug
• Built apps with Play Framework/Akka, Django, Node.js, EC2, RDS, and S3
• Helped people by answering Scala questions on Stack Overflow (feed subscriber)
• Started YouTube channel to teach Scala and functional programming: https://goo.gl/L5YlFt
Peer-to-Peer Research, GNUnet Gainesville, FL Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2015
• Investigated implementations for advanced NAT traversal measures such as analyze the network, choosing web-based TCP relaying over TURN, setting the Time-To-Live of outgoing packets, analyzing incoming ICMP packets, setting firewall to block connection disruptors, etc. Peer-to-peer networking.
Code/Data: https://github.com/JohnReedLOL/nat-depth-measurer
Personal Projects Gainesville, FL 2013 - 2015
• Built Cross Platform (Windows-Linux) peer-to-peer video streaming desktop application (Java, C).
• Architected multiplayer, real-time, online, client-server RPG game in Java (met requirements months before expected date).
https://github.com/JohnReedLOL/Nineteen_Characters
• Built custom Java logger for undergrad students at the University of Florida (debug trace logger).
https://github.com/JohnReedLOL/JohnsUtils/blob/master/src/info/collaboration_station/utilities/Printer.java
• Built websites with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JQuery on Amazon EC2.
• Built an AI that plays 1,2,4,6,8 deck European and American Blackjack with precise accuracy, insurance, and double-down. C/C++, Statistics, Probability.
• Implemented a C++ wrapper to provide flexible, JavaScript style prototypal delegation to C++ objects.
https://github.com/JohnReedLOL/Prototypal_C
• Wrote a problem solver in C - approximated zeros that Wolfram Alpha could not calculate exactly.
GitHub: https://github.com/JohnReedLOL
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnreedprogrammer/