Resume
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:author: tyrel
:category: Resume
:slug: resume
:status: published


`2022 Resume <{attach}/pdfs/Tyrel-Souza-Resume-2022.pdf>`_

Also `Online Resume <https://read.cv/tyrel/>`_ for more up to date resume.


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Senior Software Engineer with focus on Python, Django, Go. Technology enthusiast and IOT tinkerer. Private pilot. Amateur radio operator.

EXPERIENCE
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EverQuote — Boston, MA — Senior Software Engineer >>> January 2022 - June 2023
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* Ported a Python2.7 monolith to Python3 microservices.
* Automated a daily task for two analysts to be able to be run in only a few moments which saves 18 hours per week of analyst time.
* Built a UI for manipulating database settings to aid in automating work for analysts.
* Migrated a handful of repositories from CircleCI testing to GitHub Actions.
* Ported multiple long running scripts from Python2.7 to Python3.
* Migrated some command line tools from Python2.7 to Python3.
* Migrated alerts system platform from PagerDuty to Opsgenie.
* Launched a webservice using Go to assist Sales Reps to provide alternative Insurance company matches.
* SOX Compliance training.

Tidelift — Boston, MA — Software Engineer III >>> April 2018 - December 2021
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* `Command Line Interface <https://tidelift.com/cli>`_

  * Developed binary CI/CD tool in Go to analyze software dependencies for security/licensing problems
  * Added ability to create users and manage repositories from the command line
  * Expanded personal project into company product

* Tidelift core redesign and pivot
* Pivoted from solely a vulnerability scanner to supporting a catalog of open source dependencies
* Part of small team developing Tidelift 2.0/3.0
* Developed front end Vue, and back end Ruby on Rails
* Expanded open source code under https://libraries.io to support more languages.
* Added new languages manifests support
* Programmed in multiple projects with code all available as open source on github

  * `Bibliothecary <https://github.com/librariesio/bibliothecary>`_: Added ability to detect dependencies in manifests for Poetry, pip-compile, pipfile,

* Conda

  * `Conda Parser <https://github.com/librariesio/conda-parser>`_: Developed ingestor of Conda environment files, parsing environment.yml files
  * `Conda API <https://github.com/librariesio/conda-api>`_: Programmed web scraping of Anaconda to detect new packages, and REST API endpoints for packages


Addgene — Cambridge, MA — Software Engineer >>> March 2015 - March 2018
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* Wrote Django REST Framework API server behind a token-authenticated NGINX server
* Rewrote file storage backend to keep on Amazon S3 instead of local in-house file system
  
  * Released my own custom Django module as a result

* Trained non-developers in Python
* Helped start and expand a "non-developer developer" club
  
Akamai — Cambridge, MA — Sr. Software Engineer >>> July 2014 - March 2015
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* Wrote an API with Python/Flask that the front end could communicate with

  * Checked if email was a valid user in Salesforce, then sent the user an email from a template

* Rewrote the backend for an internal dashboard to load data in 0.1 second, down from 10 seconds

Propel Marketing — Quincy, MA — Software Engineer >>> September 2012 - July 2014
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* Built CMS to host and build hundreds of customer websites using Django, jQuery, Bootstrap
* Created custom widgets, custom styling, custom templates, and more


Appropriate Solutions Inc — Peterborough, NH — Software Developer >>>  July 2010 - September 2012
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* Built multiple client websites in Django, jQuery, Bootstrap.

SKILLS
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* Python, Go, Django, Flask, Linux, Docker, Git, Mercurial, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, Amazon AWS (S3 mostly) Google Cloud Storage, REST APIs, Kafka, Redis, memcached, Sidekiq, RabbitMQ, Eclipse Mosquitto

EDUCATION
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* Keene State College - B.S. Applied Computer Science (Honors Society), Minor in Mathematics (Honors Society), Dean's List

PERSONAL PROJECTS
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* `Django DBFileStorage <https://gitlab.com/Tyrel/django-dbfilestorage>`_ Goal: to continue running CI tests on a remote storage when working on moving file storage to S3 without incurring additional AWS charges.

VOLUNTEERING
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* Boston Athletic Association Amateur Radio Operator - 2019 Boston Marathon