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Christine Dodrill
Full-stack Engineer
Montreal, QC christine.website
Docker
, Git
, Go
, Rust
, C
, Stenography
, DevOps
, Heroku
, Continuous Integration/Delivery
, WebAssembly
, Lua
, Mindfulness
, HTTP/2
, Alpine Linux
, Ubuntu
, Linux
, GraphViz
, Progressive Web Apps
, yaml
, SQL
,
Postgres
, MySQL
, SQLite
, Ordained Minister
, Dudeism
, Tech Writing
,
Kubernetes
, Command Line Apps
Experience
Tailscale - Software Designer 2020 - present
Tailscale is a zero config VPN for building secure networks. Install on any device in minutes. Remote access from any network or physical location.
Highlights
- Go programming
- Nix and NixOS
Lightspeed - Expert principal en fiabilité du site 2019 - 2020
(Senior Site Reliability Expert)
Lightspeed is a provider of retail, ecommerce and point-of-sale solutions for small and medium scale businesses.
Highlights
- Migration from cloud to cloud
- Work on the cloud platform initiative
- Crafting reliable infrastructure for clients of customers
- Creation of an internally consistent and extensible command line interface for internal tooling
Heroku - Senior Software Engineer 2017 - 2019
Heroku is a cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that created the term "platform as a service". Heroku currently supports several programming languages that are commonly used on the web. 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
- How to Make a Progressive Web App From Your Existing Website
Backplane.io - Software Engineer 2016 - 2016
Backplane (now defunct) was 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
An embeddable userspace kernel for executing WebAssembly programs. The main goal of this is to allow for an easier migration to another CPU architecture (such as RISC-V, 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
- https://christine.website/blog/olin-progress-2019-12-14
As of March 21, 2019, Olin is able to run binaries compiled with Go 1.12.x WebAssembly support. Olin also is known to work on big-endian systems with no changes needed to source code or binaries.
It also supports security policies similar to a combination of the OSX sandbox profiles and OpenBSD's pledge() system call. This allows users to limit the scope of what resources an Olin program can access, including file URLs, the amount of ram that can be used or the number of WebAssembly instructions that can be executed.
Wasmcloud
Wasmcloud is a Heroku or AWS Lambda-like functions as a service backend and platform for event-driven architecture built on top of WebAssembly. It wraps Olin and provides a lot of higher-level conveniences for users. I have written a blogpost on my progress and where I'm wanting to go with this project.
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
When Then Zen 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.
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.
I have gotten to the front page of Hacker News several times. Here are a few of the comment threads:
- I Put Words on This Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me now
- TempleOS: 1 - Installation
- WebAssembly on the Server: How System Calls Work
- Olin: Defining a New Primitive for Event-Driven Services
Ordination
I am an ordained minister with the Church of the Latter-day Dude. This allows me to officiate religious ceremonies in at least the United States. I would be honored if you were to choose me to officiate anything for any reason. Please contact me if you have any questions.