about me
call me julian.
a software engineer in the greater denver, colorado area.
i'm a builder at heart and a lifelong learner by habit.
i enjoy the crafting the software that has captured most of us.
the journey
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ba, biophysics · pitzer collegeclaremont, capitzer is one of the five claremont colleges, which share a campus and open their classes to each other. i started out in life sciences but kept drifting toward computation. i majored in biophysics at the keck science department, took cs and engineering at harvey mudd and math at pomona, and finished with a two-semester physics thesis.
- notable classes
- quantum mechanics with computational applications · statistical physics · electromagnetism · biophysics · differential equations & modeling · linear algebra · principles of computer science
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program analyst ii & iii · david geffen school of medicine at uclafull stack · los angeles, camy first engineering role: building web and mobile apps for medical research teams across the school of medicine — wrangling everything from legacy on-premise systems to greenfield aws infrastructure, all within hipaa's guardrails.
- openacs
- open architecture community system — an open-source toolkit for building database-backed web applications
- tcl
- the scripting language openacs is written in, used for both page logic and server code
- aolserver → naviserver
- a multithreaded web server with a tcl interpreter built in, originally developed at aol; naviserver is its maintained fork
- oracle & postgresql
- the relational databases underneath — oracle for the legacy systems, postgresql for newer work
- jquery & datatables
- dom scripting and ajax, plus sortable, searchable, paginated tables for research data
- bootstrap
- responsive layout and ui components across web and mobile views
- vanilla css & js
- hand-written styles and scripts where a library would have been overkill
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ms, computer science · university of coloradodenver, coa master's in computer science through the college of engineering, design and computing, taken while working full time. i started with the undergraduate core to fill in the fundamentals a biophysics degree skipped, then moved on to graduate work in systems, theory and data. graduated may 2022 with the ms and a graduate certificate in software engineering.
- notable classes
- deep learning · big data systems · security & cryptography · applied graph theory · theory of automata · software architecture · advanced computer architecture · operating systems
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senior software engineer · dish networkbackend · denver, cothe sole senior backend engineer for boost mobile's digital interactions team. i took a creaky legacy monolith apart and rebuilt it as scalable microservices, leaning on test-driven development and infrastructure as code to keep everything honest.
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senior software engineer · westhill globalfull stack · remotethese days i lead development at a startup connecting insurance carriers, homeowners, and contractors through a fully-digital managed repair experience. i wear a lot of hats here — designing infrastructure from requirements through delivery, rearchitecting for scale and fault tolerance, and guiding sprint planning and code reviews.
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