Peter James Row, Developer in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia

Peter James Row

Debugging Developer

Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Toptal Member Since
June 26, 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
Data Mining, Unicode, Google Analytics, Python, Tornado, NGINX, SQL...
Geoscience Australia
NumPy, SciPy, Esri, MATLAB, Python

Experience

Debugging - 7 yearsPython - 5 yearsSciPy - 5 yearsTornado - 3 yearsSQL - 3 yearsDjango - 1 yearObjective-C - 1 yeariOS - 1 year

Location

Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia

Availability

Part-time

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

2013 - 2014

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.
Technologies: Data Mining, Unicode, Google Analytics, Python, Tornado, NGINX, SQL, Objective-C, iOS
2005 - 2009

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.
Technologies: NumPy, SciPy, Esri, MATLAB, Python

Experience

Laowai Pro

Chinese Flashcard iOS app.

Solar Ruckus

2D physics-based game with accelerator-based controls.

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

2001 - 2008

Bachelor of Science Degree in Applied Mathematics

Australian National University - Canberra