John Liao

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Employment

Currently:

• Booz Allen Hamilton - Senior Lead Engineer
  • Chief Technology Office (CTO)
  • Competencies: Django, Python, NetBox, CookieCutter, MkDocs

Previously:

• Clarity Innovations - Senior Software Engineer
  • Migrating existing US Air Force legacy portfolio to a more evolvable architecture that can better leverage a cloud environment to deliver better technology, reduce program sustainment costs, and higher system reliability.
  • Competencies: React, TypeScript, Node Express, MobX State Tree, Jest, TypeORM, MySQL, CI/CD, Extreme Programming (Test-Driven Development (TDD), Paired Programming), Pivotal Services (Tracker, Cloud Foundry, etc.), SonarQube

• Oasis Systems - Systems Engineer
  • Lead operational and test interoperability events involving DoD Program of Record(s) (e.g. DCGS-N, DCGS-A, DCGS) and functional groups
  • Competencies: Project management, systems test engineering, IV&V, daily tag-ups, customer-level interactions, Kanban master, end-to-end test planning and test reports
• ActioNet - Software Developer
  • Developing blackbox tests and enterprise-level interoperability support for DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB) and contributor to Codice Foundation
  • Competencies: Java, Jenkins, MilCloud, Docker, Maven, Jira/Bitbucket/Git, Agile, Python, Linux/Unix, unit/integration testing, Performance Testing, IV&V, enterprise-level SOAP/REST testing
• Dentsply Sirona - Digital Product Development
• Belcan Engineering - Technical Project Manager

Certificates

• Python Expert
• Java Practitioner

Education

• (2020) M.S. in Computer Science @ Boston University
• Courses taken (10)
• CS673 - Software Engineering
• CS555 - Data Analysis and Visualization with R
• CS767 - Machine Learning
• CS779 - Advanced Database Management
• CS664 - Artificial Intelligence
• CS544 - Foundations of Analytics with R
• CS662 - Computer Language Theory
• CS579 - Database Management
• CS575 - Operating Systems
• CS566 - Analysis of Algorithms
• (2016) Computer Science Undergraduate Certificate @ Boston University
• Courses taken (4)
• CS245 - Discrete Mathematics
• CS341 - Data Structures w/ C++
• CS472 - Computer Architecture
• CS231 - Programming w/ C++
• (2012) B.S. in Mechanical Engineering @ Tufts University

Selected Coding Projects

• Amazon Product Price Data API
  • Built kubernetes production-ready third party Amazon Product Price Data API
  • Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Google Cloud, Heroku, PostgreSQL
• Ecommerce Retail Arbitrage Platform
• Architected automated arbitrage software that handles order fulfillment, multi-threaded price comparisons, persistent data storage, and scraping of listing information for 1M+ products/day.
• Google Cloud, AWS, Python, JSON, REST APIs, Selenium, Bootstrap, HTML/CSS, Heroku, cron
• Reddit AMA Compiler Bot
  • u/ama_compiler_bot makes r/AMA easier to read (11k upvotes as of 06/2021)
• Wikipedia Category Recommender using Neural Networks
  • Implemented a machine learning application that provides category recommendations based on input text from Wikipedia webpages. CS767 Machine Learning final term project
  • AI/ML, neural networks, Tensorflow/Keras, selenium, data mining, automation, data processing
• Implementation of an MBTA ETL with an Oracle Database
• Implemented an ETL using MBTA API to Oracle database for CS779 Advanced Database Design final term project
• Advanced database design, REST APIs, ETL (extract, load, transform), SQL, Oracle, Data warehouse, embedded SQL, Python
• pymbta
  • A pure Python wrapper around the MBTA api
  • Python, Rest API
• @TrackMBTA - Twitter bot - Find the location of your MBTA train (source)
• @MotoQwote - Motivational Twitter bot.
• Algorithms and Data Structures Competence
  • Written in C++
  • Written in Python