Resume for Antonio D'souza

I am curious, friendly, creative, and eloquent. I want to write software that delights people.

Software Development Experience

October 2010 –
present

Chartbeat, New York, NY - Real-time analytics for Web traffic

Instrumented and added features to custom in-memory data processing/storage engine written in C.
Developed new functionality for customer onboarding and user account management system in Python/Django.
Integrated back-end user account management system with front-end HTML, CSS and JS via templating.
Built a custom business dashboard to track performance across crucial metrics on a weekly/monthly basis.
Configured and wrote plugins for infrastructure monitoring tools (Munin, Nagios, Puppet) for our AWS/EC2 cluster.
Investigated technical setup/integration issues for customers.

November 2009 –
September 2010

Funemployed - Dabbled in a few personal projects while travelling

Built the back-end for a collaborative sketching/guessing game inspired by Pictionary/Telephone using Google App Engine and Python.
Built a simple HTML5 front-end for the game using Javascript and the Canvas API.
Prototyped WebOS and Android apps for the game.
Wrote an Android app for local movie showtimes website Cineti.ca.
Prototyped a multi-platform (Android/iPhone) app for tracking wine-tasting experiences using PhoneGap.

September 2005 –
October 2009

VMware, San Francisco, CA

Designed crucial features for new desktop virtualization product (Client Virtualization Platform).
Wrote back-end for controlling display topology via XRandR and NV-Control.
Prototyped GTK+ application for configuring endpoint device.
Investigated causes of most common usability issues in VMware Workstation and drove efforts to address them.
Produced detailed specifications for new features added to Workstation in version 6.5 (e.g. the widely acclaimed new VM creation wizard).
Worked with large C++ codebase to add functionality, fix bugs and refactor code.
Delivered technical presentations at college campuses and interviewed prospective team-mates to support recruiting efforts.
Designed and wrote an Eclipse plugin that simplifies remote debugging of Java code using Workstation.

September 2003 –
December 2003

Sun Labs, Mountain View, CA

Wrote tool for validating integrity and consistency of fields in data structures used internally by Sun's reference Java compiler.
Produced abstract syntax tree consistency checker for use in automatic source code transformation system.
Added minor functionality to innovative source code visualization tool.

January 2003 –
April 2003

IBM Canada, Toronto, ON

Ported internal stack unwinder of DB2 Universal Database for Linux to AMD x86-64 architecture using C.
Investigated and fixed several defects in Linux port of DB2 on PowerPC, IA64 (Itanium) and x86-64 architectures.
Organized career development seminar for other interns.

May 2002 –
August 2002

IBM Canada (formerly OTI), Ottawa, ON

Held full responsibility for FTP and WebDAV components of open source Eclipse IDE: designed, developed, documented, tested and debugged both of them.
Assisted in maintenance of CVS component in Eclipse.

September 1999 –
August 2005

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

Honours Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science (English minor)

February 2010 –
April 2010

MISSSEY - Helping victims of human trafficking

Collaborated with graphic designer to achieve look and feel appropriate for target audience.
Built entire website from scratch based on provided visual design.

August 2007 –
December 2009

826 Valencia - After-school tutoring for local kids

October 2005 –
October 2007

Led a special event to clean up the San Francisco zoo on HOBA Day in 2007.
Helped plan expansion of projects related to teaching and youth as member of HOBA committee.