Jared M Sohn

1742 Martin Luther King Jr Way Apt. B; Berkeley CA 94709; jared.sohn
at gmail.com; 510-326-0106
Please visit http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~sohn/portfolio for additional
details, screenshots, and demos.

SELECTED SKILLS
* Proficient in JavaScript, C++, C, and C#.
* Comfortable in Python, Objective C (iOS), Java. Exposed to assembler
(MIPS, Intel)
* Other technologies: 
o Web: Frameworks (Meteor, Django, Perl CGI, PHP, ASP.NET), Apache, 
APIs (Chrome extensions, Firebase, Locu, Facebook Graph API, 
Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery). NOSQL: MongoDB, home-grown.  Templating:
Handlebars, Moustache.  PaaS: Heroku, DotCloud.
o Networking: socket programming (C#, C, Java), websockets (C#, JS), 
packet sniffing.
o Multithreading experience: C++ (pthreads), C#, Java
o Graphics: OpenGL, GUI libraries (FLTK, wxWidgets, WinForms) 
o Misc: XML, JSON, JSONP, design patterns, Win32.
* Proficient developer in Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX (minus shell
scripting)
* Advocate/use testing, wikis, version control, bug tracking,
automated builds, VMs
* Work well both independently and in groups.

WORK EXPERIENCE
* Founder, mute.fm., San Francisco, CA, October 2011-Present. Created
desktop software that mutes background music when watching videos.
Also released MuteTab v2.0 (see projects) and worked on personal
goals. C#, JavaScript.
* Senior Software Engineer, Quest Software (formerly PacketTrap
Networks)., San Francisco, CA, August 2007 - October 2011.
Part of small engineering team at network management company from
early stage startup past acquisition. Created customizable
reporting/dashboard/webservice frameworks for serialized
non-relational (i.e. NOSQL) data, heterogeneous router telnet/SSH
framework, automatic build system/installers, branding, syslog server.
Added content for monitoring, alert conditions, tunneling integration.
C#, ASP.NET
* Contractor, Digital Anarchy., San Francisco, CA, August 2006-May
2007.
     Updated an After Effects and a Photoshop plug-in.  C++
* Contractor, BitTorrent, Inc., San Francisco, CA, March 2006-August
2006.
Created XML-RPC-like web service for adding torrents and content to a
SAN. Python
* Contractor, JSM Tele-Page, Inc., Sheboygan Falls, WI, Jan. 2005-June
2005.
Wrote a program part-time to filter out redundant autogenerated pager
alerts. C#
* Intern, Stottler Henke Associates, San Mateo, CA, June-Sept. 2004.
Updated a tool for a Navy contract to predict if vessels are
friends/foes based on locations, movements. Java
* Programmer/Analyst, AMA, Inc., Hampton, VA, Aug 2002-March 2004.
Wrote tools to help NASA automate the analysis of space shuttle
designs. Java, XML
* Programmer, University of Wisconsin Extension., Madison, WI,
1999-2002.
Created a highly-polished/refactored program to build spreadsheets and
charts to analyze a Wisconsin tax dataset. Code continued to be used
with little modification for eight years. Validated data. One of two
part time jobs during college.
* Programmer, JSM Tele-Page, Inc., Sheboygan Falls, WI, 1991-2001. 
Developed tools to help run my parents' paging company during middle
school/high school/college. Most notably, created a program to send
messages to pagers via modem, network, e-mail, and web. Lived with
same codebase for ten years.


SELECTED PROJECTS
* MuteTab Chrome Extension. Chrome extension that helps a user narrow
down which tab is noisy and show/pause/stop/close it. Also optionally
automatically mutes all background tabs. 59,000 users. Featured on
Reddit, TechCrunch, Slashdot, Lifehacker, etc. http://www.mutetab.com
* WebAddMe. Hackathon project.  A mobile web app that allow easy friend 
requests and public messages to people nearby.  (Still in progress.) 
Meteor,  MongoDB.
* MMO Spacewar. Updated MMOAsteroids.com to use Spacewar rules. Fixed
bugs. http://www.mmospacewar.com. Uses JavaScript, Firebase.
* Pinrank. Hackathon project that allows comparing images from
Pinterest. Python/Django.
* Tile-based iPhone game. Developed simple iPhone game as a learning
exercise.
* Instant Facebook. Created an interface to search Facebook
interactively using JavaScript and the Facebook Graph API.
* Content-Based Routing. Developed infrastructure to efficiently route
streaming (i.e. Twitter-like) data from publishers to subscribers.
Used Berkeley sockets, UDP, TCP, pthreads.
* C++ graphics projects. Created a motion capture viewer, flocking
plug-in for Maya, and script-based image editor.
* Film plug-in. Created extended channel film plug-in for Stanford’s
Physically-Based Ray Tracer. Source available to the public at
pbrt.org/downloads.php.
* Notepad consolidator. Wrote a small open source utility to collect
the text from all untitled notepad instances and save the contents to
a timestamped filename. Source available at github.com/jaredsohn.

EDUCATION
* University of Wisconsin-Madison. Work toward Masters in Computer
Science as Special Student (3 of 8 classes). Spring 2002, Spring 2005.
GPA: 3.67/4.0.
* University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bachelor of Science in Computer
Science, Mathematics. August 1997 - December 2001. GPA 3.4/4.0; 3.6 in
CS.
* Very broad and deep CS education includes 16 courses (five at the
graduate level).
* Deans List (Fall 1997, Fall 1999).
* ACM Programming Contest team placed sixth (of 80) in North Central
Region in 1999.

See my portfolio for further project details (and/or ask at an
interview).