Resume

Ross Angle

Software Engineer

Open Source Developer — Independent — January 2017–Present

• Created various utility libraries for the Racket programming language under my Lathe GitHub organization:
  • Punctaffy, a library for higher-dimensional bracket notation, which took some study of higher category theory.
  • Interconfection, a deterministic concurrency framework for implementing module systems which are invariant with respect to module loading order.
  • Libraries for ordinal numbers, design-by-contract combinators, operation chaining notations, and general utilities.
• Put in some work on a new version of my Cene programming language, under my Era GitHub organization for programming language development.
• Worked on miscellaneous projects outside of Lathe and Era, some of which can be seen directly on my GitHub profile. Many of these are from before 2017.
• Wrote JavaScript game logic and audio integration for the Twine game Rites of a Mailmare.
• Contributed to Anarki, a community fork of the Arc programming language.
  • Wrote and maintained Travis CI and GitHub Actions automated CI/CD workflows to keep the community's unit tests running and its website up to date.
  • Developed a Racket interop layer.
  • Put together a rudimentary documentation page which is generated from in-source docstrings to keep it continuously up to date.

Front-End Developer — GSN Games, Inc. — June 2014–January 2017

• Worked on the GSN Casino Facebook app, writing application logic, Angular.js UI views, Less stylesheets, SQL database migrations, Jasmine and Istanbul unit tests, and A/B tests for new features including progressive jackpots, achievements, cross-promotion dialogs, and decorative holiday themes.
• Maintained and participated in cross-team design for a container layer, a mock server, and a Gulp build process so HTML5 games could be added alongside GSN Casino's catalog of Flash and Unity games.
• Expanded and refactored the features of GSN Casino's admin configuration website.
• Trained a remote developer team.
• Tracked tasks in JIRA, and used Crucible for code reviews.

Software Engineer — FunMobility, Inc. — October 2010–May 2014

• Worked with external teams to code more than 15 multiplayer HTML5 games for the FunChat iOS/Android mobile app.
• Designed and built a distributed transactional memory model and an iframe-based game previewer for multiplayer FunChat games.
• Defined an API and wrote a build script and a Node.js mock server to support a product pipeline for AppWidgets, a SaaS platform of mobile marketing campaigns (e.g. surveys and coupons). AppWidgets customers configure their mobile push campaigns on the Web with in-browser preview.
• Worked on a small team to code four AppWidgets widgets and their Web configuration pages.
• Helped code the iOS/Android app Chiquita FanFun (IBM LEADER Award winner) and the iOS app ISSMM CONVERGE Chicago 2012 based on AppWidgets technology.
• Working as the sole engineer, developed an Android wallpaper app, Live Wallpaper Planet: Earthscapes.
• Trained two coworkers in HTML5.

Web Developer — Linfield College — February 2007–December 2008

• Built a PHP- and MySQL-backed CRUD interface for page content that could be edited by faculty and content types that could be extended by the webmaster.
• Used the ToolMan JavaScript drag-and-drop library to build a Web interface for rearranging department faculty listings.
• Assisted the webmaster with updating page templates and debugging the site.

Developer — Google Summer of Code — Summer 2008

• Wrote an application and proposal that was granted sponsorship.
• Built Groovy Science, an open source library which provides a symbolic expression format with support for pattern match-and-replace operations. This was intended as a glue layer to help interface Groovy with existing scientific Java libraries such as JScience.

QA Tester and Software Engineer — Pronto Games, Inc. — Summers 2002–2007

• Tested the Game Boy Advance games Ten Pin Alley 2 and Thunder Alley.
• Created, maintained, and submitted to a Microsoft Access bug database, which smoothed collaboration between the QA and engineering departments.
• Configured the existing BREW cell phone games Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Dig Dug, and Galaga to work on dozens more handsets.
• Programmed some 2D physics primitives for a J2ME version of Katamari Damacy that was never released.

Student — Linfield College — September 2005–January 2009

• Made the Top 200 List in the 2008 Putnam Mathematics Competition.
• Received Honorable Mention for team participation in the 2008 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
• Received a B.A. in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science in less than four years, with a 3.360 GPA.

More about me

While I’m capable in many programming languages, the ones I have the most first-hand experience with are JavaScript (with Node.js or HTML and CSS), Racket, Java, and Groovy. I’m familiar with event-based GUI programming, reactive programming, and pure functional programming, and I’ve used Windows, Linux, and macOS workstations.

In my spare time, I design programming languages (like Cene) and interactive fiction tools, striving for a world where every being is well cared for. I also like to pass the time with cartoons, obscure retro comedy anime, Mega Man games, TCGs, reverse engineering, and reading about proof theory and dependent type theory.