Lenny Burdette ============== San Francisco lenny.burdette@gmail.com (424) 209 7179 Github: https://github.com/lennyburdette Online Version: http://resume.averyiv.com/ Employment ---------- ### Square, Inc Senior Software Developer, October 2013– ### Zappos Labs Senior Software Developer, San Francisco, February 2011-October 2013 I've lead development on dozens of projects ranging from small hacks and experiments to year-long e-commerce and mobile applications. Most projects rely on public and private APIs and are deployed to EC2 on top of several Amazon Web Services. In addition to Rails, Node, Cocoa Touch, and front-end development, I pushed the team towards test-driven development, helped out on devops, and played a major role in brainstorming projects and new lines of business. Major projects include: * A monthly iPad magazine, built as a hybrid Cocoa/HTML5 application. * A Pinterest data-driven shopping experience with a recommendation engine. * A Fab.com-style curated shopping site. ### Schematic Senior Software Developer, Los Angeles, July 2007-January 2011 I worked on small-to-medium sized product teams primarily as a front-end developer as well as a client-facing technical representative and software architect. My development work emphasized performance, SEO, and accessibility. I was often tasked to learn new technologies like Silverlight and OpenGL in the course of a project. Clients included Dell, Disney, Google, The Library of Congress, Logitech, Mazda, South Park Studios, Target.com, and Yahoo. ### Freelance Design & Development * Peace Over Violence (Summer 2006-2007) * Rebeca Mendez Communication Design (Spring 2006-2007) * Processing.org (Summer-Winter 2005) Published Works --------------- ### The JavaScript Pocket Guide Peachpit Press, 2010 312 pages of JavaScript reference and tutorials written and published in the first quarter of 2010 (which makes it pretty much obsolete at this point!) Skills, Tools & Experience -------------------------- *Front-End* JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, DOM, CSS, SASS, A11y, SEO, Responsive Design, D3.js, CSS Animation, HTML5 APIs, GA/Mixpanel, Backbone *Back-End* Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, RESTful APIs, Rack, MySQL, RSpec, Redis, MongoDB, Express, Socket.io, PHP *Mobile* Objective-C, Cocoa Touch *Software* Git, Photoshop, Illustrator *Process* Scrum, Service Oriented Architecture, Test Driven Development *DevOps* AWS, Capistrano, Chef, Grunt, Vagrant *Still Learning* Angular, Ember.js, Scala, Go, Python Education ---------- ### University of California, Los Angeles Bachelor of Arts in Design | Media Art, Summa Cum Laude, Class of 2007 Teaching -------- * Hackbright Academy Mentor (Summer & Fall 2013) * UCLA D|MA Summer Institute TA (Summer 2005 & 2006) Hobbies & Activities -------------------- Cycling, climbing, hiking, binge TV watching, tooling around on the guitar and mandolin, wearing kick-ass socks.