Jake Talley

Data Engineering & Analysis, Computational Science, and Sundry

Experience

20232022

Data Engineer
- Golang, SQL, GORM, Echo, Testify, Datadog, AWS, Workato, gRPC, Bitbucket, Agile Remote

Wrote code, primarily in Go, for a SaaS platform deployed to AWS using Docker containers and ECR/ECS
Responsible for developing and testing RESTful API endpoints in collaboration with frontend engineers
Testing implemented the Testify package for Go for unit, integration, and handler tests
Created integrations with several third-party services using Workato, enabling customers to import data efficiently
Assisted decomposition of backend monolith into microservices utilizing gRPC and Kafka
Created migrations and endpoints to manage data in both MySQL and Snowflake databases

20222018

Owner & Lead Engineer
- Golang, Autodesk Fusion 360, LibreCAD, Excel Los Angeles, CA

Small business managing design, manufacturing, and retail projects
Retail sales of new and used LEGO pieces and sets on BrickLink.com, with roughly 1000 orders per year starting in June 2020
Developed software in Go using the public Bricklink API for price and inventory updates
Co-designed storage cases for artisan keycaps using CAD software, then manufactured and sold them
Designed a keyset, GMK Mudbeam, for Cherry MX compatible mechanical keyboards; managed a team to handle graphics, 3D rendering, packaging, sales, and fulfillment

20212021

Challenge Tester
- Lots and lots of LEGO bricks Los Angeles, CA

Tested building challenges to be used for season two of the LEGO Masters TV show on Fox
Worked with a partner to create large-scale models under tight time constraints
Delivered feedback on the various challenges for ways to improve them to set up contestants to have more success, much of which was used during production

20162012

Research Associate & Lead Developer
- FORTRAN, MPI, MATLAB, Linux, Bash San Diego, CA

Worked on a project developing a large simulation for transmission of dengue fever in Thailand and Peru as part of the Dengue Prevention Consortium
Developed software in FORTRAN with MPI and MATLAB with the Parallel Computing Toolbox to run in parallel on a 192-node cluster
Responsible for various aspects of simulation validation, optimization, data analysis, and documentation
Designed and implemented algorithms used in the simulation to model human and mosquito movement, mosquito life cycle, disease progression, and internal data management and communication

20162012

San Diego State University
- C, CUDA, MATLAB, L^aT_eX, Linux, Bash San Diego, CA

Thesis topic: Vortex Rings in Quantum Fluids
Performed numerical simulations for the evolution of systems of partial differential equations
Implemented massively parallel algorithms in CUDA using Nvidia GPUs
Used analytical techniques to predict and validate numerical observations
ABD in Ph.D. program