
Peter James Row
Debugging Developer
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.
Portfolio
Availability
Preferred Environment
Terminal, Unit, Subversion (SVN), Mercurial, Git, Linux, OS X
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.
Work Experience
Developer
Indie Development
- 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.
Python Developer
Geoscience Australia
- 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.
Experience
Laowai Pro
Solar Ruckus
Skills
Languages
Python, Objective-C, SQL, C, CSS, HTML
Other
Tornado, Software Development, Debugging, Lean Development, Unicode, Data Mining, Unit
Frameworks
Django, Knockout (Knockout.js), Chipmunk, Cocos2d
Libraries/APIs
NumPy, SciPy, jQuery
Paradigms
Asynchronous Programming, Unit Testing
Platforms
MacOS, Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS
Storage
SQLite, Redis, PostgreSQL
Tools
MATLAB, Esri, NGINX, Google Analytics, Git, Mercurial, Subversion (SVN), Terminal
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Applied Mathematics
Australian National University - Canberra