My previous role was with E la Carte, where I was writing code to integrate with some of the most inscrutable point of sale systems, with python my only friend. I have also worked for a social games startup in San Francisco called 50 Cubes. I started on client-side actionscript code for a year and switched over to coding the server components for the same games in php and python. I also recently wrote a content management back-end in Django for an Android app released by 50cubes. I worked in an academic setting for quite a few years doing work in natural language processing and linguistics. I have mostly left those pursuits now for a silicon valley-style startup. My goal is to be successful in the software startup world and create something beautiful and inspiring. I enjoy working the full stack of an application but prefer to leave visuals and layout to someone else. I like the logic beneath the surface. I like to see code that reads easily, so that it hardly needs comments, though it should have comments too. I like to keep in mind the Zen of Python, so I will sometimes "import this".

Senior Software Engineer @ From March 2015 to Present (8 months) Senior Software Engineer @ From September 2013 to March 2015 (1 year 7 months) Redwood City, CASoftware Engineer @ December 2011->June 2013: Writing server components for social games in php and python. Managing mysql and redis databases. Writing tracking scripts for nagios. Writing tools for content team and developers to interact with server data. Managing deployments for live games. 2011: Writing complex Actionscript code and helping in game design process of a successful social games startup. From January 2011 to June 2013 (2 years 6 months) San FranciscoTeaching Assistant @ Organized, performed duties as a teacher during lab times in CS101. Taught Matlab and C programming languages to students. Developed a novel lab assignment based on creating an Android app. Supervised other teaching assistants. From August 2008 to December 2010 (2 years 5 months) Software Developer @ Website development using the Microsoft .NET Framework including C#, ASP.NET and Javascript. Managed and developed on MSSQL databases. Developed extensions to mapping apis and programmed general UI for the website. From August 2008 to December 2010 (2 years 5 months) Research Intern @ Developed a database system for storing and searching annotated text using MySQL. Built a GUI on top of this system (Python, PyQT) so that annotators employed at LDC could easily search the database. Kazuaki Maeda, (maeda@ldc.upenn.edu). From May 2007 to August 2007 (4 months) University of PennsylvaniaResearch Intern @ Implemented automated probabilistic text capitalization algorithm taking context into account; Implemented automated internet news corpus retrieval and extraction. The system regularly checks a collection RSS feeds to find articles to retrieve and process. Plain text articles are extracted from HTMLfiles and the RSS file, the HTML file, and the plain text file are all stored in a file structure, or a repository, containing a number of Berkeley database files. The other half of the system is a tool that queries the repository and generates a customized corpus fitting the needs of the researcher. Zhu Liu, 732-420-9128, (zliu@research.att.com), David Gibbon (dcg@research.att.com) From June 2005 to August 2005 (3 months) Middletown, NJSpecial Projects Technical Specialist @ Implemented system for extracting “out of vocabulary” Arabic words. This involved creating a system to download news text from various sources on the internet automatically using a crawler (wget). Then the words in the text would be stemmed using a set of transformational rules and the top n most common words shown to an Arabic expert to find any new words. All non new words were eliminated and a new list was created. Eventually, a list of 256 new words was generated. Also learned Arabic. Tom Creamer, 301-864-1410, (tcreamer@mcneiltech.com). From February 2004 to September 2004 (8 months) Hyattsville, MD

MA, Linguistics @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From 2004 to 2007 BS, Computer Science and Linguistics @ University of Maryland College Park From 2000 to 2003 Andrew Fister is skilled in: Machine Learning, Python, Natural Language..., JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP, Django, MySQL, Nagios, Java, C++, C, Computational..., Linguistics, MVC, Backbone.js, C#, Redis, Wordpress, Drupal, Amazon Web Services..., Apache, Facebook API, HTML 5, Game Development, HTML, jQuery, Git, CSS, Perl, Linux, AJAX, MongoDB, phpMyAdmin, SQL, REST, Social Games, Web Development, Subversion, Ubuntu, Semantics, Databases, Ruby, Objective-C, Ruby on Rails