Adam Canady, Software Developer in Northfield, MN, United States
Adam Canady

Software Developer in Northfield, MN, United States

Member since April 22, 2016
Adam has 6 years of full-stack engineering experience. Starting at Twitter, he developed a knack for security when he built the authorization system used in all requests to Twitter's platform. He then moved to California to work at a security research startup, eventually working on ideas presented at DEF CON and Black Hat while developing a state-of-the-art security system that protects many Fortune 50 companies.
Adam is now available for hire

Portfolio

Experience

Location

Northfield, MN, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Node.js, Python, Sublime Text, MacOS

The most amazing...

...project I worked on was a 3D reconstruction engine that detects features in images taken by many cameras and triangulates points in space to make 3D models.

Employment

  • Business Intelligence Developer

    2012 - PRESENT
    HigherEducation.com
    • Built several BI systems.
    • Worked on visualizations for executive team.
    • Developed new methods for evaluating lead quality and matching.
    • Maintained systems for tracking domain growth over time.
    • Developed an automated method for cleaning up webspam on a portfolio of websites.
    Technologies: QlikView, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Python
  • Software Engineer Intern

    2014 - 2014
    Twitter
    • Created a security authorization engine.
    • Used Scala to build a scalable distributed system.
    • Worked closely in a team.
    • Continuously deployed software.
    • Wrote unit and integration tests for a large software suite.
    Technologies: Java, JavaScript, Scala

Experience

  • 3D Reconstruction Engine
    https://github.com/CarletonScenes/Scene-Reconstruction

    A package that provides a means to construct 3D models of objects from photographs.

  • Front-End Calculators for TheSimpleDollar.com

    A series of front-end calculators for the personal finance website TheSimpleDollar.com

  • Bauxy.com

    Developed a RESTful Django backend and React + Redux frontend for a client.

Skills

  • Languages

    Python, HTML, Java, JavaScript, CSS, Objective-C, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, Rust, Scala, C++
  • Libraries/APIs

    Google Analytics API, PyQt, React, Twitter API, Node.js, RequireJS, jQuery, Socket.IO, Flexbox, NW.js, Facebook API
  • Tools

    Google Analytics, Android Studio, Sublime Text, Git, IntelliJ, wkhtmltopdf
  • Paradigms

    Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Functional Programming, Agile Software Development
  • Platforms

    WordPress, Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu, QlikView, MacOS, Arduino, Android, Linux, iOS
  • Storage

    MongoDB, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Frameworks

    Django, Express.js, Flask, Angular, Vanilla JS, AngularJS, Mithril.js, FeathersJS
  • Other

    Mathematics, SSH, Content Management Systems (CMS), Robotics, Cryptography, ARM, OAuth

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in Economics
    2012 - 2016
    Carleton College - Northfield, MN (USA)
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
    2012 - 2016
    Carleton College - Northfield, MN (USA)

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