Experienced engineer working in Data Systems, primarily in Java and Python. Focused on building robust, flexible, and accurate data systems for analytics and data science. Works well in large and small companies; from roles as an individual contributor as well as managing teams. Builds and extends backend systems, databases, and visualizations. Simplifies data processing workflows, and uses flexible technologies that afford teams rapid development.

Senior Software Engineer - Data Systems @ - Evaluating new distributed technologies extensively, documenting advantages and caveats for feature development - Designing performant database architectures - Migrating legacy systems to new paradigms - Leading coordination of technical details between teams From September 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Portland, Oregon AreaSoftware Developer Lead @ - Built powerful Extraction Transformation Load (ETL) pipeline for aligning and managing disparate data about building efficiency - Made an interactive spreadsheet validation interface to ETL system, supported splitting and concatenating columns of values - Implemented matching interface for finding the same building in multiple datasets and annotating a canonical version of that building with source data - Researched fingerprinting buildings based on periodic data and subsets of attributes From December 2013 to September 2014 (10 months) Portland, Oregon AreaSoftware Developer @ - Extended workflow automation - Built distributed system for scheduled tasks - Setup automated testing with Selenium From June 2013 to November 2013 (6 months) Portland, Oregon AreaTechnical Reviewer for Pro Django 2nd Ed. @ Worked as a contractor to review technical aspects of Pro Django, and validate that the code samples worked. Worked to improve the code flow and ensure that the samples would be Python 3.X compatible. From April 2013 to July 2013 (4 months) Software Engineer - Web team @ - Django development - Overhauled Logging Framework - Work with pending permissions even for unregistered users - Major testing overhaul - Mox mock library expert - Automated data retrieval for cohort analysis - Collecting data and representing information graphically - Web application security - IP Whitelisting in Django - Ratelimiting in Django From December 2011 to June 2013 (1 year 7 months) Portland, Oregon AreaOperations Team Lead @ Writing custom infrastructure automation and deployment code for virtualized services. Designing, implementing backup strategy. Centralized log aggregation, filtering and backups. Deploying NGINX as a front-end load balancer. Writing RESTFUL APIs for costumer-facing products. Maintaining Documentation for over a dozen services. Customizing monitoring software, writing custom plugins for graphing and alerting. Writing custom monitoring frameworks for services that require API interaction for comprehensive testing. Performance benchmarking for custom services. Deployment, maintenance, diagnosis of RDBS, several types of NoSQL databases. Organized and executed migration for entire infrastructure from AWS to baremetal/cloud hybrid From March 2010 to December 2011 (1 year 10 months) Portland, Oregon AreaSite Reliability Engineer @ Responsible for maintaining dozens of deployment servers. Wrote configuration Parsing/Validation code for deployment infrastructure (Python). Responsible for Production DNS updates. Work with proprietary databases, canary testing for multi-master replication, documented transition plan for a complex internal webapp to new system. Wrote tools to help with team-based computer resource allocations throughout company (Python). Added comprehensive notes features into internal webapp for diagnosing and tracking history of individual servers.(Python, Javascript). Fixed resolution issues in distributed lockservice libraries for new clusters (Python). From April 2009 to March 2010 (1 year) Data Center Tech. Lead @ Facilitated a high throughput team working on computer hardware, Linux and networking. Worked with many teams to smooth the process of introducing new hardware platforms into large scale production datacenters (DVT, PVT to production handoff). From July 2006 to April 2009 (2 years 10 months) MS Exchange Cluster Administrator @ -Maintained Cluster Health -Diagnosed Active Directory/Exchange account and configuration problems -Wrote scripts to help automate account migrations From March 2006 to July 2006 (5 months) Network Analyst @ Network intrusion detection, attack response coordination, Perl development, PHP development. From September 2004 to March 2006 (1 year 7 months)

English, Writing, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude @ Oregon State University From 2002 to 2006 Gavin McQuillan is skilled in: Python, Django, Bash, Git, Distributed Systems, Linux System..., Cloud Computing, Linux, Nginx, Apache, Scalability, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Hadoop, DNS, Cassandra, Open Source, JavaScript, Unix, Shell Scripting, Java, Chef, Ruby, Flask, Computer Security, Network Security, OpenVPN, Backup Solutions, Statistics, Early-stage Startups, MongoDB, Web Development, GIF, Bison