Mike McCreavy

Silicon Valley Software Engineer

Mountain View, CA

650-200-0202

mike@mccreavy.com

Objective

Using bleeding-edge technology, I'm looking to design and implement web-based solutions to all your problems.

Skills

C/C++	1987-Present	Known to dream in C.
Python	1996-1998, 2010-Present	In-house development utilities. Embedded Python Runtime into a larger application to allow end-user scripting. Got back into Python in 2010 after joining Luminate to support their Django-driven website.
Perl	2006-Present	Perl is not evil if you agree that writing readable, maintainable Perl is a Good Thing. PerlGolf can be fun, it's just a crime to commit it.
PHP	2000-Present	Smarty templates, PEAR, Zend engine C/C++ extensions, session management, LAMP solutions. Comfortable rebuilding mod_php with support for bigmath, gdlib, CURL, SQLite, or custom extensions.
Javascript	1997-Present	AJAX, AJACS, GoogleMaps Hacking, Firebug, HTTPFox, Chatzilla Codebase, Cross-Browser programming, JQuery, prototype.js.
Java	1997-Present	Browser-aware applets, full standalone applications, JSP, JSP templates, J2EE JavaBeans, Weblogic EJBs, AWT, Swing, JDBC, RMI, JNI, javax.comm, Hadoop.
SQL	1993-Present	MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Cloudscape, SQLite dialects. Triggers, Data normalization skills, Complex compound queries. Light MySQL administration skills: slow query detection, hot backups, basic replication.
HTML/CSS	1996-Present	Can create clean, functional HTML pages with styles abstracted into Stylesheets.
XML/XSLT	1999-2003	Java and C Xerces libraries to both generate and parse (SAX and DOM) XML. Xalan for XSLT transformations, expat library for non-validating C parser.
x86 Assembly	1996-2000	Read only; a familiarity with x86 assembly is useful when tracking down compiler optimization bugs. I may not know the op-codes by heart, but my Michael Abrash reference book is never far away.
68K/PowerPC Assembly	1987-1996	Wrote large programs in 68k assembly. As the industry moves away from low-level languages, an understanding of assembly is still a good thing to have when writing performance critical routines or driver software.

Experience

Luminate, Incorporated

Mountain View, CA

Coder, 9/2010 - Present

• Client-side Javascript and Server-side Python to render dynamically-placed, context-appropriate ads on publishers' sites. Integrate with external ad networks to source advertising content.
• Projects: Django Site Redesign, Ask Santa, Realtime Ad Serving (using Java, Hadoop, SQLAlchemy, Memcached, etc), and near-realtime Analytics and Reporting (using Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, etc).

LiveOps, Incorporated

Santa Clara, CA

Principal Engineer, 11/2009 - 9/2010

• Scrummaster.

Staff Engineer, 4/2008 - 12/2009

• Projects: Realtime Monitoring.
• Technologies: JQuery, prototype.js, MySQL (MegaQueries), ActiveMQ, Map Reduce, Hadoop.

Senior Engineer, 2/2006 - 4/2008

• Projects: Chatzilla, Web 2.0 Website Infrastructure.
• Technologies: Venkman, AJAX, IRC, Nagios.

Telephia, Incorporated

San Francisco, CA

Senior Principal Wireless Platform Architect, 1/2004 - 2/2006

• Architected the abstraction of core data processing streams away from a legacy hardware collection platform.
• Implemented replacement for aforementioned legacy hardware collection platform.
• Leveraged capabilities of new hardware collection tools to provide robust datasets of greater precision, accuracy, and quality.
• Integrated new logging and reporting mechanisms into process flow to create easily defensible output.
• Maintained strictly controlled release dates to avoid impacting revenue cycles.
• This new process is used to create datasets that generate more than 15 million dollars worth of revenue annually.

Senior Software Developer, 12/2000 - 7/2001

• Responsible for application's client/server distributed architecture.
• Distributed tasks to team members best-suited to solve and implement solutions.
• Mentored junior developers, aided in integrating their work into production.
• Selected and purchased hardware for prototype systems.
• Wireless Standards: CDMA, GSM, tdMA, Amps.

Bentley Systems, Incorporated

Exton, PA

Technical Lead, SelectServer, 1/1997 - 4/1999

• Led a team through all aspects of design, implementation, documentation, certification, and release of SelectServer – a product binding MicroStation site administrators with Bentley Systems.
• Completely redesigned MicroStation/J’s licensing technology (node-locked and pooled) to integrate with SelectServer and dynamically report licensing statistics back to Bentley.

Software Developer, ModelServer Publisher Team, 6/1997 - 4/1998

• Responsible for administrator’s web interface to ModelServer Publisher: an HTML interface integrated directly into Netscape Enterprise Server’s own administration pages.

Technical Lead, MicroStation 95 & SE for PowerMacintosh, 1/1996 - 4/1999

• Implemented Macintosh-specific GUI layer, building some behaviors from scratch (toolboxes, dockable windows, tooltips, etc) when the MacOS did not provide a native equivalent.
• Ported and optimized MicroStation’s bytecode compiler and runtime for the PowerPC architecture.
• Added Macintosh support for RenderWare QuickVision (similar to OpenGL) rendering.
• Tracked fixes and coordinated support and priority builds for 3 years.

Software Developer, MicroStation V5, 1/1994 - 12/1995

• Created cross-platform installer technology for the Macintosh, Windows, and Unix variants of MicroStation V5.
• Quickly intimated myself with 12,000,000 lines of professional code while fixing a multitude of bugs discovered during the product’s certification phase.

Tidbits

• Governor, Toastmasters District 4, Area G4, 2012
• Vice-President Public Relations, Macintalkers Toastmasters
• Certification: Situational Leadership II, 2010
• Certification: Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer, 2010
• Award: LiveOps Nobel Award, 2008
• Award: Bentley Service Provider Award, 1996
• Award: Bentley Pinch Hitter, 1995
• Fun: Getting checks from Donald Knuth for finding bugs in TAOCP.
• Fun: Avid participant in Peer To Peer (P2P) distributed network tool development.