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Christine Dodrill
Rockstar Hacker, Cloud Architect, Gopher, Haskeller, Container Expert
Mountain View, CA christine.website @theprincessxena
Docker,Git,Haskell,Nim,Go,C,CentOS,CoreOS,IRC,Matrix
" A github power user, constantly learns new things to keep up on what's new in tech.
Experience
Backplane.io - Software Engineer 2016 - 2016
Go, Docker, docker-compose, devops, PostgreSQL
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
IMVU - Site Reliability Engineer 2015 - 2016
Ubuntu Server, CFEngine, Haskell, Go, Perl, Nginx, JunOS, Ceph, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, PHP, Erlang
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
Deis, Docker, CoreOS, Go, Freeswitch
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
Ruby, Rails, Chef, CoreOS, Docker, Deis
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
Deis, CoreOS, Go, Docker
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
Open Source
Elemental-IRCd
A scalable RFC compliant IRCv3 enabled IRC server for personal and professional use.
Accomplishments
Elemental is currently in use in production on several networks, totaling 800-1000 users per day with spikes of up to 50,000 on special events.
Tetra
A modern IRC services platform for TS6 IRC daemons.
Accomplishments
- Parallel, safe execution of handlers and scripts
- Moonscript -> Lua transpiling support
- A clean, declarative domain-specific language for declaring features or bot commands:
Command "PING", ->
"PONG"
This will create a command named "PING" that will return "PONG" to the user when it is used.
PonyAPI
A simple API for information on episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic written in Nim to be run inside a container.
All data is loaded into ram and there are no usage limits as long as you agree to not take down the server it is running on.
Professional Projects
Projects here will be of a more professional nature (save a few here and there).
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.