Mike Ree

While at Corbis, I designed and fully implemented a conceptual search algorithm that utilized our existing taxonomy, along with clickstream data, to create a weighted model to find conceptually similar images. Our new implementation was over 3x as successful of converting customers to purchase than our previous and the company patented the technology.

After being hired to rescue a failing project, I designed a new BRS syntax parser for Solr that required a custom forked version of Solr to implement. I then submitted a patch back to Solr for the Posting's Highlighter to allow the highlighting of the complex search requirements of BRS.

The original developer presented on the work I was contracted to do. When he makes a reference to "we," he is actually referring to the work and solutions that I created.

I attended Bill Kenedy's class on "Advanced Ultimate Go" at the 2018 GopherCon conference, which focused on memory management, CPU caches, compiler optimizations, and microservice optimization. I learned new skills to optimize SQAD's Serverless Go code to increase the performance of custom analytics.

I ran the largest Counter-Strike gaming network, which was comprised of three physical servers running more than 10 gaming servers of 32 players each, hosting up to 320 players at a time and having over 1 million players a month.

Francis Chang was a player on one of my earlier servers and asked to use my network to analyze the performance of network traffic. I worked with Francis to deploy a server in his environment and provided a heavy user base to analyze.