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Christine Dodrill
Web and Backend Services Devops Specialist
Bellevue, WA christine.website
Docker
, Git
, Go
, C
, CentOS
, CoreOS
, IRC
, Stenography
, DevOps
, Continuous Integration/Delivery
, Event Sourcing
, WebAssembly
Experience
Heroku - Senior Software Engineer 2017 - current
Heroku is a cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages that is used as a web application deployment model. Heroku, one of the first cloud platforms, has been in development since June 2007, when it supported only the Ruby programming language, but now supports Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go.
Highlights
- JVM Application Metrics
- Go Runtime Metrics Agent
- Other backend fixes and improvements on Threshold Autoscaling and Threshold Alerting
Backplane.io - Software Engineer 2016 - 2016
Backplane is an innovative reverse reverse proxy that helps administrators and startups simplify their web application routing.
Highlights
- Performance monitoring of production servers
- Continuous deployment and development in Go
- Learning a lot about HTTP/2 and load balancing
Pure Storage - Member of Technical Staff 2016 - 2016
Pure Storage is a Mountain View, California-based enterprise data flash storage company founded in 2009. It is traded on the NYSE (PSTG).
Highlights
- Code maintenance
IMVU - Site Reliability Engineer 2015 - 2016
IMVU, inc is a company whose mission is to help people find and communicate with eachother. Their main product is a 3D avatar-based chat client and its surrounding infrastructure allowing creators to make content for the avatars to wear.
Highlights
- Wrote up technical designs
- Implemented technical designs on an over 800 machine cluster
- Continuous learning of a lot of very powerful systems and improving upon them when it is needed
VTCSecure - Deis Consultant (contract) 2014 - 2015
VTCSecure is a company dedicated to helping with custom and standard audio/video conferencing solutions. They specialize in helping the deaf and blind communicate over today's infrastructure without any trouble on their end.
Highlights
- Started groundwork for a dynamically scalable infrastructure on a project for helping the blind see things
- Developed a prototype of a new website for VTCSecure
- Education on best practices using Docker and CoreOS
- Learning Freeswitch
Crowdflower - Deis Consultant (Contract) 2014 - 2014
Crowdflower is a company that uses crowdsourcing to have its customers submit tasks to be done, similar to Amazon's Mechanical Turk. CrowdFlower has over 50 labor channel partners, and its network has more than 5 million contributors worldwide.
Highlights
- Research and development on scalable Linux deployments on AWS via CoreOS and Docker
- Development of in-house tools to speed instance creation
- Laid groundwork on the creation and use of better tools for managing large clusters of CoreOS and Fleet machines
OpDemand - Software Engineering Intern 2014 - 2014
OpDemand is the company behind the open source project Deis, a distributed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) designed from the ground up to emulate Heroku but on privately owned servers.
Highlights
- Built new base image for Deis components
- Research and development on a new builder component
Portfolio Highlights
Olin
A work-in-progress event sourcing platform built with WebAssembly. This would allow you to load data in on one end and then let the machine take care of it without having to care about it. Worker functions would be compiled to WebAssembly to make the resulting code independent of any individual CPU, allowing for an easier migration to another CPU architecture (such as aarch64 or ppc64be) without having to recompile existing code.
I have written multiple blogposts on this project:
- https://christine.website/blog/olin-1-why-09-1-2018
- https://christine.website/blog/olin-2-the-future-09-5-2018
ilo Kesi
A chatbot that parses its commands through the grammar of the constructed language Toki Pona, then figures out what the user is asking for using a lookup table and executes that request.
When Then Zen
This is meditation instructions translated into Gherkin, a-la:
Feature: Anapana (mindfulness via breathing) meditation
Background:
Given no assumption about meditation background
And a willingness to learn
And no significant problems with breathing through the body's nose
And I am seated or laying down comfortably
And no music is playing
Scenario Outline: mindfulness of breathing
As a meditator
In order to be mindful of the body's breath
When I <verb> through the body's nose
Then I focus on the sensations of breath
Then I focus on the feelings of breath through the nasal cavity
Then I focus on the feelings of breath interacting with the nostrils
Then I repeat until done
Examples:
| verb |
| inhale |
| exhale |
This has been well-recieved by coworkers, friends and others. I have written more on the subject here.
xultybau
An experimental take on a metalanguage analysis package for Toki Pona text. This would then be consumed by ilo Kesi (see above) or other future projects like a text-based adventure game. This is still heavily experimental and there is not much to show yet other than the ideas that it will build up to.
Writing
Articles listed below will be either personal or professional and do not reflect the views of any company or group I am affiliated with. The writing is my own, with the help of others to make things legible.