Matthew McPherrin

Experience

• Mozilla

  • Open Source work, see bugzilla and commit logs.

• Amazon.com — Software Development Engineer

  Seattle, Washington: January 2011–May 2011
  • Created a JSON API using Perl for safely querying data sources from Javascript
  • Developed a system to capture metrics on software reliability for management overview
  • Evaluated data availability and quality to create business critical sales metrics for use by senior Amazon executives

• Endeca Technologies — Software Engineering

  Cambridge, Massachusetts: May 2010–August 2010
  • Improved error handling on a Bison generated parser, immediately improving developer productivity
  • Implemented performance optimizations for an XQuery compiler written in C++
  • Generalized internal XSLT tool into C++ code generation framework for AST serialization

• Performance Technologies — Software Developer

  Ottawa, Ontario: September 2009–December 2009
  • Designed and developed JSON REST interface in Python with Django
  • Prototyped Javascript web application for product configuration
  • Ported functionality from legacy PHP code to Python

• eSentire Inc. — Software Developer

  Cambridge, Ontario: January 2009–May 2009
  • Developed Linux kernel module and userspace packet capture library in C
  • Tested multithreaded kernel-space code, identifying and resolving race conditions to create release quality code
  • Created a high performance DNS monitor and interceptor to detect and stop spread of the Conficker worm on a LAN