Eli Vinal
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Eli Vinal

Eli Vinal

Software Engineer


Background


Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Software Engineer

    2017-19-04 - Present

    • C++

    • Python

    • Qt

    • Unit Tests

  • Developer

    Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20182 years

    Built a very large and complex React / Redux application. It works on all platforms and has IOS/Android builds due to it being a PWA. (wrapped it in React Native though only implementing a WebView)

    • blah blah

  • Co-Founder

    Jan, 2011 - Present

    Following Google’s CDN for jQuery, we decided to start a CDN for the less popular Javascript frameworks. The CDN is community moderated and open source on GitHub. We secured a partnership with Cloudflare who now supports the infrastructure.

    • Millions of sites use the CDN in production

    • Larger market share than Yahoo's and Microsoft's content distribution network

    • We serve hundreds of billions request a month

    • Contains over 3000 popular Javascript libraries

    • Millions of developers visit the site per year

  • Developer

    Apr, 2014 - Jan, 20161 year 9 months

    Hired to take EFF's campaigning to the next level by building an action centre in Ruby on Rails. The action centre is built around some large open source tools that lower the barrier to entry when contacting congress.

    • Developed new tools for contacting congress

    • Brainstormed campaign ideas to raise maximum awareness about issues

    • Lots of social networking integration

  • CTO

    Mar, 2013 - Jan, 20151 year 10 months

    Started off as a front end developer but took on the role of CTO in early 2013. The application frontend is built with Javascript and organized as a single page application that talks to a collection of Rails web servers which are connected to MongoDB.

    • Managed a small team of developers and designers

    • Built the entire frontend application with Backbone.js

    • Transferred all of the infrastructure from Heroku to AWS

  • Founder

    Apr, 2014 - Present

    JSON Resume is a community driven open source initiative to create a JSON based standard for resumes. There is no reason why there can't be a common standard for writing a resume that can be extended with an ecosystem of open source tools.

    • Over 3000 stars on Github

    • Community developed themes

  • Developer

    Jun, 2013 - Jan, 20162 years 7 months

    Worked on many politically charged campaigns against mass surveillance. Not only technically challenging work but also a lot of networking and getting my hands dirty with politics. Our biggest project was "TheDayWeFightBack"..

    • Generated 37,000,000 banner views

    • 100, 000 phone calls to congress

    • 500, 000 emails

    • 250, 000 signatures

  • Co-Founder

    Jan, 2013 - Present

    An international directory of civilian drone / UAV operators for hire. Services include aerial photography, aerial video, mapping, surveying, precision agriculture, real estate photography, remote inspections and infrared imaging. Our plan is to be the place to go when looking for UAV/Drone services. The website is built in Backbone.js and API is built with Node.js and Postgres.

    • The site and blog combined have managed to receive over 200,000 visitors in 2014.

  • Founder

    Jan, 2011 - Jan, 20143 years

    I write tutorials and blog post regarding the popular Javascript framework Backbone.js. The tutorials cover a range of topics regarding front end development aimed at beginners, experts and anyone in between.

    • Over two million unique visitors a year

    • 25,000+ ebook downloads

    • 300,000+ Youtube views

  • Front-end Developer

    Jan, 2011 - Jun, 20121 year 5 months

    Ephox is a worldwide company who is heavily involved with the development of TinyMce and enterprise editors. My primary role included building front-end widgets and applications. Worked on a major product using Backbone.js as a base. Heavily involved in UI/UX design and wire-framing. Also spend a lot of time designing API specifications and documentation.

Skills

Skills

  • General

    N-Tier Architecture

    OOP

    Embedded Systems

    UX Design

    TDD

    Scrum

    Debugging

  • Languages

    C++

    Python

    Bash

    SQL

    JavaScript

    HTML

    UML

    Objective-C

    Ruby

    Java

    VHDL

  • Protocols

    TCP/IP

    UDP

    GPS

    ZeroMQ

    MQTT

    JAUS

    RS232

    SPI

    I2C

    ICMP

  • Platform

    Windows

    Mac OSX

    Linux

    BusyBox

    Docker

    Virtualization

  • DevOps

    Version Control

    CI/CD

    Build Automation

    Configuration Management

    ALM

Education

Education

  • Electrical Engineering, Bachelors, The University of Arizona

    Feb, 2009 - Dec, 2011