Erick Rivas
Software Developer
Summary

I am a software developer, tinker, and technology enthusiast

Employment
Red Schoolhouse Software
Fullstack Developer  · 
Feb 2013 to Oct 2014
 · 
Los Angeles, CA

* Worked extensively to optimize and extend backend functionality, including but not limited to optimizing SQL queries and adding persistence (Memcached) when necessary

* Enjoy vertical ownership of projects, from schema design, through the business logic in the backend to the front-end implementation of both AJAX-driven pages and more static projects such as reports

* Lead project for a new service, including the entire schema design, and implemented it as a RESTful API

* Actively maintained reports, data-entry modules, XML parsers, PDF exporters, etc.

X-ray Diffraction Lab, UCSB
Lab Assistant  · 
Jun 2011 to Oct 2012
 · 
Santa Barbara, CA

* Built http://lab.mrl.ucsb.edu, a lab equipment scheduling site using PHP 5.4, MySQL and Javascript/jQuery/jQuery UI

* Added reporting utility to signup site using PHPExcel

* Built Java image processing utility for TIFF images produced by X-ray diffractometer

* Solved and implemented solution for binning of data from a CCD detector in a semi-circular trajectory in C

Education
University of California, Santa Barbara
B.S. Physics 2012
Hacker School
Fall 2012
A three-month hacker's retreat in New York, NY during Fall 2012 (October thru December)
Skills
PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, git, svn, Memcached, Python
Projects
BitClient (https://github.com/charmeleon/BitClient)

A BitTorrent client written in Python, able to torrent a full Linux distro

tableToCSV (https://github.com/charmeleon/tableToCSV)

A jQuery plugin to transform an HTML table into CSV output

nand2tetris (https://github.com/charmeleon/nand2tetris)

The nand2tetris project, currently a work in progress