Daniel Schep

[email protected]
(803) 727 - 9909

Summary of skills

Expert Python & Javascript developer, using Serverless, AWS, React, & React Native.
Experienced with many HTTP frameworks including Django, Express.js, and Flask.
Experienced in relational and non-relational databases, HTML5, CSS3, and Bash
Working knowledge of C, C++, Fortran, Java, and Perl
Expert user of Linux, Windows, and Mac OS with Ops/Sysadmin experience on Linux

Education

University of South Carolina - Bachelor of Science
2005 - 2009 | Major: Computer Science | Minor: Mathematics

Work Experience

OurStreets - Co-founder and Head of Engineering

2019 - 2020

I built a platform for crowdsourcing street safety issues in cities.

Designed and implemented a cross-platform native mobile application and a scalable backend service to power it.
Built back-office tools for advocacy organizations and other interested parties to view the crowdsourced data reported by members of the public.
Managed a junior frontend engineer.
Implemented a hard pivot at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to crowdsource the availability of essential supplies such as toilet paper.

Serverless, Inc. - Senior Software Engineer

2018 - 2019

I helped build the future of serverless computing.

Designed & implemented new features serverless framework v1
Maintained serverless framework v1
Designed & implemented early features of the serverless components framework

United Income, Inc. - Senior Software Engineer

2016 - 2018

I was one of United Income's first engineers and help build and bring our product to market.

Built backend HTTP APIs using Node.js and Serverless Framework on AWS Lambda.
Implemented frontend features using React & Redux.
Designed and built a trading engine in Python & Serverless to compute trades needed to rebalance a user's portfolio and execute it in the market.
Created and maintained the serverless-python-requirements plugin

Washington Post - Consultant

2016

I served as part of Threde's team at the Washington Post, and implemented a feature on a short-term contract for their Arc Publishing Suite.

Endgame, Inc. - Software Engineer

2015 - 2016

I was a Backend Engineer, working mostly with Python on Endgame's Cyber-Operations Platform.

Adapted a several existing codebases(Django and Tornado) to meet Endgame's deadlines for an Air Force Hunt exercise
Created a set of easy to work with & debug micro-services to replace a very unwieldy Apache Storm based implementation that made debugging too difficult
Created a high-level RabbitMQ library for Python to simplify other developers' use for RabbitMQ and to eliminated repeated boilerplate code
Implemented a critical message routing component for Endgame's Sensor Management Platform
Tested and integrated all of Endgame's Sensor Management Platform's various services

Celerity IT, LLC - Senior Technical Consultant

2013 - 2105

Consulted as a Full-Stack developer working mostly with Django on the following projects:

Great Nature Project (National Geographic)
NatGeo Education (National Geographic)
Map Maker Interactive (National Geographic)
FieldScope Project Builder (National Geographic)
AdVisor 1 & 2 support & development (SocialCode)

Novetta Solutions - Computer Scientist

2011 - 2013

Duties included:

Developing Frontend and Django Backend for Cyber-Analytics tool
Building releases for installation on production systems
Providing Developer support to System Administrators

Savannah River National Laboratory - Associate Engineer

2009 - 2011

Duties include:

Developing Visualization tools for ASCEM
Rewriting Atmospheric Modeling frontends in Python
Developing pre/post-processing system for ground water modeling tools
Building and configure scientific and engineering applications for deployment on HPC systems

USC Department of Mathematics - Research Assistant

Spring 2009
Duties include:

Developing 3-D Biofilm Simulation Code using MUDPACK
Parallelizing 3-D Biofilm Simulation Code