Resume

Skills

Languages: Scala, Python, Java, C++, C, Ruby, JavaScript, Bash, Racket, PHP, HTML, CSS
Frameworks: Sencha Touch, PhoneGap, Slick, Lettuce, jQuery, Lawnchair.js, Django, Ruby on Rails, Ember.js
Tools: Git, Chef, Cassandra, MySQL, Google Datastore/Cloud Storage, Thrift, Memcached, SBT, Eclipse, Vim

Work Experience

PagerDuty, Software Engineer, Toronto, ON July 2017 - Present

Working on scaling up PagerDuty for a growing customer base

PagerDuty, Software Engineer Intern, Toronto, ON August - December 2016

Working as a software engineer on the incident management systems team, using Ruby, Rails, MySQL, and EmberJS

Snapchat, Software Engineer Intern, Los Angeles, CA January - April 2016

Developed a Python wrapper for machine learning library BIDMach to enable GPU based model learning, using JPype library to interact with Scala code from Python
Created an interface and backend in Django to enable interactive training of thousands of machine learning models
Wrote script to upload millions of images and their metadata to Google Datastore and Cloud Storage to be used for training machine learning models

Facebook, Software Engineer Intern, Menlo Park, CA May - August 2015

Prototyped a new service, written in C++ and an internal stream processing framework to do realtime SQL streaming, using ANTLR to do SQL parsing
Performed benchmarks against old Java service and found a 15% speedup with decreased CPU usage
Researched and presented a paper about stream join usage in a production environment

PagerDuty, Realtime Software Engineer Intern, Toronto, ON August - December 2014

Created a data archiver using Scala and Slick to archive old customer data from Cassandra to a MySQL database, stored in Amazon's RDS, archiving millions of notifications in production
Investigated datacentre preference in Netflix's Cassandra client, Astyanax, and how the Thrift client, Finagle, performs load balancing and request retries

Arctic Wolf Networks, Software Developer Intern, Kitchener, ON January - April 2014

Developed and configured multiple services in Python, including one which used Memcached to cache URL categorization requests sent to an external web service
Sped up parsing of string output from WMIC utility by a factor of 60

Metroland (Save.ca), Software Developer Intern, Markham, ON May - August 2013

Created responsive web pages including an FAQ page, the deals page, and the home page for Save.ca with PHP, Yii, MySQL, jQuery, HTML, and CSS

Education

Bachelors of Computer Science, Honours Computer Science, University of Waterloo (Expected May 2017)

Dean's Honours List, Fall 2012/Winter 2013/Fall 2013/Spring 2014/Winter 2015/Spring 2016

President's Athlete Academic Honour Roll, Fall 2012/Fall 2013

Undergraduate Research Assistant: Social Networking for Users with Assistive Needs Fall 2015, Spring 2016

Researched different methods of how a web page segmentation algorithm could be used to improve social networks and general computing for the elderly and visually impaired

Projects (see github.com/mjparrott)

Myo Muscles - Keep track of your workouts and exercise form using Thamlic Labs' Myo September 2014

Cap It - Rate captions on your friends' old Facebook photos February 2014

GDC (GNU D Compiler) - Revived development of GDC September 2009 - November 2010

Extracurriculars

Programming - Contests (Google Code Jam, TopCoder), Coursera (Computer Networks, Algorithms, Functional Programming in Scala, Principles of Reactive Programming), HackerRank (mjparrott)

Athletics - University of Waterloo varsity baseball team (Fall 2012/2013/2015), intramural basketball/volleyball