Peter James Row

Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia

Member since May 21, 2014

Peter has 5 years of Python experience in a scientific research environment. He has also been coding for iOS for 1 year, and has made two personal apps on the App Store: a physics-based game using Cocos2D (the predecessor to SpriteKit) and an educational app.

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Portfolio

Indie Development
iOS, Objective-C, SQL, nginx, Tornado, Python, Google Analytics, Unicode...
Geoscience Australia
Python, MATLAB, Esri, ADO, SciPy, NumPy

Experience

Debugging, 7 years
SciPy, 5 years
Python, 5 years
SQL, 3 years
Tornado, 3 years
Django, 1 year
Objective-C, 1 year
iOS, 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

OS X, Linux, Git, Hg, SVN, Unit Tests, Terminal

The most amazing...

...app I've made is a Chinese flashcard app for iOS using spaced repetition, SQLite, asynchronous programming, and Python to build the datasets.

Employment

Developer
Indie Development
2013 - 2014
- Developed and shipped a physics-based game using Cocos2D and Chipmunk Physics.
- Developed and shipped a spaced repetition flashcard learning system for iOS.
- Designed and created user interfaces using UIWebView, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Created flashcard datasets using data mining techniques with Python.
- Created web sites to market the app, integrating Google Analytics.
- Reformatted public domain Chinese classic novels to allow users to learn words in context.
- Added text to speech.
- Used asynchronous techniques to improve database access.
- Added C extension functions to SQLite.
- Made extensive use of Unicode and Natural Language parsing / processing.
Technologies: iOS, Objective-C, SQL, nginx, Tornado, Python, Google Analytics, Unicode, data mining
Python Developer
Geoscience Australia
2005 - 2009
- Ported an earthquake risk model simulator from MATLAB to Python, performed optimizations, and validated it against the original.
- Added features to a Python shallow water tsunami model and added integration with a Fortran deep water model.
- Maintained and extended scripts (using geospatial scripting) to build a catalogue of buildings in Australia.
- Significantly improved the performance of the earthquake risk model by porting some functions to C++.
- Developed unit tests, used version control, collaborated with team mates and other teams, created conversion scripts, and documentation.
Technologies: Python, MATLAB, Esri, ADO, SciPy, NumPy

Experience

Laowai Pro (Development)
Chinese Flashcard iOS app.
Solar Ruckus (Development)
2D physics-based game with accelerator-based controls.

Skills

Languages
Python, Objective-C, CSS, HTML, SQL, C
Other
Tornado, Lean Development, Debugging
Frameworks
Django, Cocos2d, Chipmunk, Knockout.js
Libraries/APIs
NumPy, SciPy, jQuery
Paradigms
Asynchronous Programming, Unit Testing
Platforms
Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Windows
Storage
SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis

Education

Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics
Australian National University - Canberra
2001 - 2008

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