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Tristan King

email: tristan.king@gmail.com
web: https://tristan.sh

Languages/Tools/Technology

15 years professional experience using:

  • Java
  • Python/Jython
  • Javascript
  • HTML (including html5 and css)
  • Bash/Shell scripting
  • Solidity

Personal experience using:

  • Clojure (4 years)
  • C/C++ (including experience with the c++11 standard)
  • Rust

Tools, SDKs and Technology:

  • Java: Eclipse, Tomcat, Maven, Spring, JSP, RDF
  • Python: Flask, Tornado, aiohttp, asyncpg, asyncio, Django
  • Databases: Postgresql, mysql, Redis, Kafka, Cassandra
  • Blockchain: Etheruem, parity, geth
  • Cloud services: Google compute engine, Google storage, Google load balancer, Heroku, letsencrypt
  • Other: Emacs, Linux (experienced with Debian/Ubuntu and Archlinux)

Work Experience

2013-2019 Bakken & Baeck. Bonn, Germany.
Software Engineer

  • Core developer of the Wake platform.
  • Developed backend systems for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain including Coinbase Wallet (previously Toshi).

2009-2012 The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Software Engineer for the iGreen project.

  • Worked on the core iGreen software architecture using Java, Spring and JSP.
  • Storage of ISO 11783 data and conversion of that data to RDF.
  • Synchronization of data between our systems and CouchDB (converting between RDF and JSON-LD).
  • Integration of external services with our systems.
  • Responsible for deploying and managing demonstrator servers for numerous project partners.
  • Collaboration with farming equipment manufacturers on specifications forcommunication between machine terminals and iGreen Services.

2005-2009 James Cook University eReasearch Centre, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Software Engineer/Research Officer for the DART and Archer projects.

  • Designing and building workflows for the retrieval and processing of scientific datausing the Kepler Workflow System including processing metadata retrieved from X-Ray Diffractometers and processing streaming data from various sensors deployed on the Great Barrier Reef.
  • Built domain specific components for Kepler to facilitate the domain specific requirements of scientific workflows.
  • Built a Jython/Django based web protal providing a generic environment to facilitate execution of any Kepler workflow and simplifying the changing of parameters andretrieval of output.
  • Managed student projects.

2003-2005 James Cook University. Towsville, QLD, Australia.
Teaching and Tutoring for the School of Information Technology.

  • Provided students with assistance in general learning, solving practical problems andassignment problems for various programming and networking subjects including:
    • Introduction to Computer Science (Beginner C/C++ programming)
    • Data Structures and Algorithms (Advanced C/C++ programming)
    • Internet Technology (Network and Internet Technologies and beginner socket and web programming/scripting)
    • Portable Programming (PHP, Perl and Python programming)

Open-Source Contributions

  • Minor patches submitted to and accepted by the Jython and Clojure projects.
  • Patches submitted and accepted to various python Ethereum libraries.
  • Maintainer of the JSON-LD implementation for Java.

Education

2000-2005 James Cook University. Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Bachelor of Information Technology (with Honours)

  • Completed four years of undergraduate studies completing with class 2A Honours.
  • Completed an Honours thesis on the feasibility of using low cost graphics hardware forrendering bioinformatics data.

Doctor of Philosophy (incomplete)

  • Undertook a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics for 2 years. Thesis title was “A Bioinformatics Application for Protein Structure Prediction”.
  • Suspended the Ph.D. to work on the DART and ARCHER projects.

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