Andrew Carter

Seattle, WA USA

Senior software engineer and architect. Experience in developing web services, mobile applications, and relational databases.

Experience

Principal Developer, Hulu, Seattle, WA (2010-Present)

Lead engineer and architect for Hulu Seattle R&D office.

Acting director for Seattle development office (10 engineers)
Established Seattle development office
Recruiting and hiring for software engineers, program managers, designers, and office staff
Architect and lead developer for Automation platform
Architect and developer for Hulu Plus on television devices
Developer on mobile platforms including iOS and Android
Linux, Mac OS X, Ruby on Rails, Python, Javascript, Objective-C, Java

Founder/Owner, Sparse Labs, LLC, Sammamish, WA (2010)

Web development firm specializing in Ruby on Rails and mobile development. Projects using Mac OS X, Linux, Ruby on Rails, Objective-C, iOS, and Android.

iPhone

Yubit coupon application (Miajo, LLC)
Moprise Sharepoint application (Moprise)

Ruby on Rails

Artwork site prototype
Social networking site
Advisor for sports management iPhone application

Senior Software Engineer, Getty Images, Seattle, WA (2007-2010)

Lead Developer and architect for photo and video web services.

Architect for content portal and Flickr projects
Lead developer for multiple content portals
Portals reduced time to market from 90 days to hours
Designed and implemented VMWare based production environment
Member of Getty Images architecture working group
Linux, Mac OSX, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Apache, Passenger, Mongrel, MySQL, VMWare

Director, RogueSheep, Seattle, WA (2007)

Server and web technology director

Content workflow management system utilizing Adobe InDesign Server
Mac OS X, Cocoa, Carbon, C, C++, Objective-C, Ruby on Rails, Javascript

Software Developer/Architect, Jobster, Seattle, WA (2006-2007)

Performance and scale lead
Architect for Jobster Web Services using REST and XML/JSON formats
Backend services for recruiting, bulk mail, and social network
Database tuning and scaling modifications
Linux, Java, Ruby on Rails, Oracle, MySQL

Web Services Development Manager, Pure Networks, Seattle, WA (2005-2006)

Development manager for Pure Networks online services

Managed team of five software developers
Managed cross-team dependencies with operations and client applications teams
Data center and service topologies
Released Network Magic 2.0 and 3.0
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Java, PHP, Tomcat, Hibernate, MySQL, Objective-C, C

Senior Software Engineer, SourceLabs, Seattle, WA (2005)

Wrote SourceLabs CERT7 methodology statement
Designed and implemented certification protocols
Implemented certification frameworks including automation, database services, and web interfaces
Analysis of open source projects and stacks
Java, C, Python, PHP

Software Design Engineer, Microsoft, Redmond, WA (1995-2005)

Over ten years of service on several different products as software engineer.

Xbox Live (2004- 2005) - Real time statistics including True Skill rating system
SQL Server (2001-2004) - Senior developer on replication team including Oralce integration
bCentral (2000-2001) - Small business web portal, real time messaging
SQL Server (1998-2000) - Interfaces team for ODBC, OLEDB, BCP
SQL Server (1995-1998) - Lead SDE/T for query processor testing team with 4 direct reports
Windows, C, C++, C#, .NET, SQL