Resume

David Cramer

dcramer@gmail.com
399 Lakeshore Dr.
San Francisco, CA 94134

An energetic Web Developer specializing in intuitive and innovative web applications with extensive experience in user-centric development built around websites relying on rich database driven-backends.

Summary of Qualifications

  • Proven knowledge in Search Engine Optimization and Marketing; extensive experience with Google’s search rankings.
  • Skilled in Object-Oriented Development and the MVC architecture.
  • Passionate about web development standards and best practices.
  • Driven to deliver functional, polished applications using the latest technologies.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the development cycle ranging from proof of concept, implementation, unit testing, and deployment.
  • Proficient in building frontend applications with cross-browser support and working around their quirks; Opera, Safari, Firefox, Internet Exporer (6/7).
  • Able to manage a small team and work around communication barriers.

Technical Expertise

Languages
PHP, Python, XML, HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, CSS
Databases
MySQL, PostgreSQL, (brief) MSSQL
Frameworks
Django, jQuery, YUI, Smarty, Jinja
Concepts
OOD, Unit, Module, and Systems Testing, Obfuscation, Synchronization, Internationlization, Full-text Search, Browser and System-level Caching, XSS, SQL Injection, OpenID, REST/SOAP, CSS Sprites, SEO/SEM, AJAX
Software
Photoshop, Zend Studio, Sphinx, memcached, Squid, vBulletin, Apache, lighttpd, subversion
Systems
Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Redhat), UNIX (FreeBSD), Mac OS (10.4/10.5), Windows (95, 98, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista)

Professional Experience

July 2006 - February 2008

Curse, Inc, San Francisco, CA
Lead Developer
Developed and maintained Python architecture for a user-centric web 2.0 website network. Managed projects for a small team of individuals with different nationalities, while being completely hands-on in most development. Continually analyzed and worked around bottlenecks using the Django platform under a LAMP architecture.

  • Made initial switch from the PHP architecture to Django and Python.
  • Created core JavaScript libraries for building dynamic elements.
  • Built core systems for tagging, rating, and interacting with pluggable content modules.
  • Performance tuned Django framework and website platform to reach in excess of 250 requests/second (600,000+ pages an hour).
  • Developed open-source components for interacting with Sphinx full-text search engine and memcache in-memory cache.
  • Assisted in deploying MySQL master/slave architecture.
  • Created all initial frontend code following CSS 2.0, XHTML 1.0, Accessibility standards.
March 2005 - May 2006

Enthropia, Inc, (Remote)
Software Engineer
Worked remotely doing backend and frontend develop for paying clients. Created several applications and enhancements for company owned websites.

  • Converted several designs into compliant CSS/XHTML webpages.
  • Developed tools to help a viral marketing campaign.
March 2005 - May 2006

MMOGuru, (Remote)
Web Developer/Webmaster
Rebuilt a core network site, WoWGuru, to revamp its convert its original limited scope to an innovative platform with a wide range of services for gamers. Learned and practiced search engine optimization techniques to increase site traffic by almost 6000% over the course of one year. Did minor work on other network sites such as integrating vBulletin into a central cms system.

  • Developed several tools to datamine and collect information from the game World of Warcraft.
  • Created an open-source database for the client-side database in World of Warcraft.
  • Developed dozens of user-centric community tools, ranging from articles and file downloads, to image and video hosting.
  • Managed most community and viral marketing to encourage site growth.
  • Created all frontend components, and most design for the website