David A. Krauth
dakrauth@gmail.com | 207.274.0401 | https://dakrauth.com/cv/ | https://github.com/dakrauth | https://pypi.org/user/dakrauth/

Summary
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Software developer specializing in full stack web development using
Python, Django, and Javascript. Available immediately

Skills
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Languages:   Python, Javascript, C/C++, SQL 
Environments: Mac OS X, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian, RHEL/CentOS), AWS 
Web Servers: nginx, Apache, WSGI / uWSGI / Gunicorn 
Frameworks:  Django, Django Rest Framework, Vue.js, Backbone, Bootstrap 
Data:        MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcached, Redis 
Tools:       git / GitHub, Docker, pytest, tox, Celery, Jira, Jenkins, Mercurial 
Mark-up:     HTML(5), CSS(3), SASS, XML, JSON, reStructured Text, Markdown 

Work Experience
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[The Atlantic Monthly Group - Washington, DC / Kaneohe, HI]
Senior Platform Developer (4/2018 - 7/2021)
Develop and maintain the Atlantic's CMS and web platform

* Upgrade CMS from Django 1.8 to Django 1.11 and. Django 2.2
* Upgrade Django-based Atlantic open source repositories from Django 1.8
  to Django 1.11, 2.2, 3.2
* Upgrade all Python repositories from 2.7 to 3.7
* Implemented multiple scenario Django admin interfaces and DRF API for
  sponsor content backend
* Created Facebook news interface
* Assisted in static content and media from server file systems to AWS
* Initial Docker-ization of customer facing subscription services

[Artemis Consulting (Library of Congress) - Washington, DC]
Lead Python Developer (11/2017 - 4/2018)
Design and implement internal tools for digital data ingest


[Open Therapeutics, LLC - Washington, DC / Cincinnati, OH]
Lead Software Developer and Director of Software Development (6/2016 - 6/2017)
Architect and principal contributor to the Therapoid platform.

* Designed tools, services, and interfaces for open source,
  collaborative bio-technologists and life scientists.
* Incorporated various 3rd party API's for authentication, annotation,
  and publishing services.

[Self Employed - Maastricht, NL]
Web Development Consultant (3/2014 - 6/2016)
Development of major conference web sites and portals.

* Developed web portals for the Univeristy of Maastricht departmental
  conferences, handling registration, enrollment, and scheduling
  services.
* Authored the Pension Communication web portal for the U. of Maastricht
  Deportment of Finance.

[Real Digital Media - Portland, ME / Seminole, FL]
Sr. Software Engineer (5/2011 - 3/2014)
Front-end developer and designer for cutting edge enterprise SaaS
platform for managing large scale digital signage delivery networks.


[CashStar, Inc - Portland, ME]
Sr. Software Engineer (2/2009 - 5/2011)
Employee number 7 during early start-up phase, helped to grow CashStar
from 3 to 90+ merchant accounts and 40+ employees.

* Developed skin-able eCommerce web sites for digital gift cards for top
  industry leading brands, e.g. https://homedepot.cashstar.com/ and
  https://williams-sonoma.cashstar.com/ (for extensive list see
  http://www.cashstar.com/egift-center/).
* Wrote internal customer service applications with integrations for
  proprietary, predictive fraud and risk analysis services to minimize
  credit card fraud.
* Designed extensive, patent-pending promotional and incentive packages
  for seasonal marketing campaigns.
* Developed analytical and reporting mash-up web applications for client
  dashboard services.

[Somatic Digital - Manchester, NH]
Lead Software Architect and Developer (11/2004 - 1/2009)
Co-founder and Vice President of a technology start-up, responsible
for all developmental aspects of the Touch User Interface (TUI)
technology, which naturalizes human/computer interaction by providing
the conduit through which multimedia content is accessed through non-
traditional means, such as paper.

* Managed and implemented all technology R&D, prototypes, and IT
  infrastructure to position the company to successfully raise over
  $1M in angel and venture funding.
* Wrote the primary desktop client applications using Python and the
  wxPython GUI framework, deployed to both Mac OS X and Windows
  platforms.
* Designed and implemented the somaticdigital.com and etouchbook.com
  websites using the Django web framework and the jQuery javascript
  library.
* Authored the TUI XML-based, content-mapping schema used to connect
  areas of the pages of the TUI-enabled book to digital content,
  websites, applications, and proprietary subscription services.
* Inventor / co-inventor named on 5 patents.
* Contributed to the success of Somatic Digital's strategic partnerships
  with NASA and the National Federation of the Blind.
* Authored the web accessible site http://NFBShareBraille.org/, allowing
  blind users to exchange braille publications through the USPS Free
  Matter for the Blind.
* Crafted the standardized TUI Icon library for entry into the INCITS
  V36 technology standards (http://v36.incits.org), as well as gain
  Somatic Digital's entry onto the committee.

[OASIS - Billerica, MA]
Sr. Web Developer (10/2006 - 8/2007)
Technical Services member

* Design and implementation of the OASIS Library, a document management
  system for the OASIS standards workflow process, featuring expensive
  metadata capabilities based upon Dublin Core (DCMI). Developed using
  Django, MySQL, Apache 2.2 and Debian Linux.
* Maintenance and enhancement of the Zope-based KAVI platform.

[Microsoft - Redmond, WA]
Software Development Engineer / Test (9/2004 - 3/2005)
Visual Studio 2005 Team Suites member

* Architected the core testing framework for the Team Suites integration
  with Visual Studio 2005, MS Excel and MS Project using C#.NET 2.0
* Supervised the daily outsourcing of test case development to
  Microsoft's contracting agents in China
* Enhanced the daily test automation environment using Python 2.3

Software Development Engineer / Test (9/2003 - 9/2004)
Windows 2003 Server team member for Microsoft UDDI v3

* Implemented an XML-driven test harness using C#.NET to automate web
  browser UI and Windows Server 2K3 MMC test cases
* Wrote detailed test cases for the UDDI SOAP interface using XML and
  XSLT
* Automated the testing environment using Python 2.3

[Honeywell - Clearwater, FL]
Software Engineer (1/2003 - 6/2003)
Team member for the Ballistic Missile Range Safety Technology system
(staffed through Manpower)

* Implemented a quadratic digital smoothing filter for radar data ingest
* Created an XML-driven, automated build system in Python 2.2 and C++,
  using MFC, SMTP, PVCS, MS Word integration

Lead Software Test Engineer (7/2002 - 1/2003)
Team lead responsible for implementing white-box testing for a
multithreaded, cross-platform, software library written in C++, used
as the foundation for the BMRST system

* Designed extensive test code scenarios for a string class with regular
  expression interfaces; TCP/IP socket and listener interfaces;
  templatized containers (deques, maps, vectors); threading devices
  (semaphores, mutex, critical sections)
* Wrote a C++ language parser in Python to extract class and method
  declarations for generating skeleton test code.

[Teltronics - Sarasota, FL]
Senior Software Engineer (6/2000 - 7/2002)
Lead developer responsible for the design and development of the Site
Event Buffer (SEBea), a remote hardware device used to monitor legacy
telecommunication devices via data collection, alarm monitoring and
event reporting.

* Designed with UML and implemented with C++ a customized RTOS and
  application layer embedded in the Motorola PowerQUICC 860T
* Refactored and extended the Python 1.5.2 interpreter as a thread-safe,
  embedded code base within the RTOS application layer
* Authored a command line shell for remote telnet or serial interface
* Engineered the event detection process by which input is read,
  analyzed, and converted from a byte stream to meaningful records of
  information to be cached into a tagged data format for remote
  retrieval
* Contributed to the SEBEa MFC emulator application

[IBM - Tampa, FL]
Software Engineer (3/1999 - 6/2000)
Developed dial-up and broadband connectivity software for Windows and
Macintosh

* Contributed to the development the dialer application, specializing in
  Windows dial-up networking with RAS, TCP/IP, PPP, VPN, and PPTP

[Andersen Consulting - St. Petersburg, FL]
Software Consultant (8/1997 - 3/1999)
Lead developer for the developmental tools team for a full lifecycle,
large scale, client/server application package

* Wrote stand-alone MFC applications and web-based services for the
  optimization and enchancement of the development and deployment
  environments

[Robbins Engineering - Tampa, FL]
Software Developer and Trainer (11/1996 - 8/1997)
Development, deployment, and training of multiple engineering software
packages

* Programmed designer roof engineering applications

[Ridgway Roof Truss - Gainesville, FL]
Programmer/Engineering Systems Analyst (2/1995 - 10/1996)
AutoCAD and IT specialist for roof truss engineering firm.

* Developed custom C++ and AutoLisp tools for analysis of engineered
  roof systems


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