Peter Sobot

www.petersobot.com
hire@petersobot.com
(226) 747 9267

200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 3G1

I'm competent with:

Python • Ruby • Rails
C++ • Go • C
Java • C# • PHP

HTML/HAML • CSS/SASS
Javascript • Coffeescript
Objective-C • iOS SDK

Mac OS X • Bash
Linux • Apache • Nginx

I've written about:

Inexpensive Bandwidth Distribution Strategies • Text Knockout in Canvas • Smart Image Cropping in Ruby and C++ • Streaming MP3 in Python • Memory Leaks in Python C Extensions • Deadlocks in Python • Cross-Process Callbacks • Reducing Reliance on Third-Party APIs

I'm a software developer with a passion for beautiful design, intuitive user interfaces and clean, efficient code.

Areas of Expertise:

Languages:

Python, Ruby, C, C++, Objective-C C#, Java, Go, SQL

Frameworks:

Ruby on Rails, Tornado, iOS SDK, Android SDK

Software:

Vim, Git, XCode, Visual Studio, Nginx, Node.JS, Apache

Experience:
Founder & Lead Developer at Appstruments (2011-present)

Crafted viral music apps for the web, Android and iOS:

the Wub Machine, an automatic music remixer used 2,000+ times daily
forever.fm, an endless, automatic & beatmatched radio station

Created architecture to scale to 60k uniques/month with minimal cost

Infrastructure Engineering Intern at Inkling Systems, Inc. (Winter 2013)

Wrote crucial software to manage Inkling's private cloud infrastructure
Created redundant & isolated demo environment for key product launch

Software Developer at Capcom Game Studio Vancouver (Summer 2012)

Expanded automated testing frameworks for Dead Rising 3 on the Xbox One
Improved data capture and visualization tools in PHP, SQL, C# & OpenGL

Software Developer at The Working Group (Fall 2011)

Development lead for 1THING, an online mobile-optimized social journal
Independently designed and developed iPhone applications
Worked with clients and designers to create and maintain Rails apps

Education:
Candidate for Bachelor of Software Engineering

from the University of Waterloo (expected graduation: 2014)

Resident of VeloCity Startup Incubator (2010-2012)
BrOS, the "Bro OS" (Winter 2012)

Built a rudimentary operating system in C for the ARM Cortex-M3
"Colour of the Web" (Fall 2010)

Co-wrote an app to determine the average colour of the internet

Activities & Interests:
Musician (1995-present)

Wrote, performed and produced 5 full solo albums of rock and electronic