Paul Oppenheim - Software Developer in San Francisco, CA

Objective

Change the world for the better. Make people happy.
Ideally this involves making software with amazing peers and frequent feedback on a contract basis.

Experience

Voidpop San Francisco, CA Software Developer March 2011 - present

Software and good deeds for hire. Just shipped Slackulator beta. Currently rooting around in:

Web development (front and backend)
Android app development
Other works...

Deeply interested in helping you make awesome things.

Linden Lab San Francisco, CA Software Developer June 2007 - July 2010

Systems, backend, and miscellaneous engineering work for the virtual world Second Life. Helped write software to:

Handle large scale distributed data availability
Research and analyze data-intensive systems and problems, including network latency issues
Automate software testing
Migrate to the cross-platform build system CMake
Develop miscellaneous bits of software compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (with an emphasis on Mac OS X issues) using many languages (C/C++, perl, python, PHP, bash / bourne shell, etc)
Help give several million residents a good experience

BDNA Mountain View, CA System Discovery Engineer April 2005 - May 2007

Worked on BDNA Inventory, a network inventory and analytics system for large enterprises. Helped write software to:

Communicate with popular operating systems (Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, etc.) using various technologies (WMI, SNMP, ssh, bourne shell, etc.)
Retrieve component inventory (CPUs, Printers, Video Cards, etc.) and relevant filesystem / registry information for further application detection with scripts written in XML, Perl, C#, SQL, etc.
Export Inventory data to BMC Atrium CMDB, Import data from Microsoft SMS, ISS Internet Scanner, etc.
Clients include Motorola, US Navy, and Kaiser Permanente.

University of Michigan - AI Lab Ann Arbor, MI Research Assistant Sept 2004 - March 2005

Worked under Prof. John Laird converting the SOAR editor VisualSOAR to an Eclipse plug-in. Also assisted with Mac OS X port of SOAR.

High Voltage Software Hoffman Estates, IL Programming Intern Summer 2002

Optimized media archives and DVD layout for "NBA Inside Drive 2003" on Microsoft Xbox.
Worked on initial cross-platform build system for "Hunter: Wayward" on Sony Playstation 2 and "Hunter: Redeemer" on Microsoft Xbox using both Codewarrior and Microsoft Visual Studio.

Education

University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI

BS Computer Science (GPA: 3.44) Graduated May 2004

Notable experience with: Artificial Intelligence, Game Development, Graphics
Extracurricular: Wolverine Soft (Game Development) (President 2002 & 2003), Siggraph (Computer Graphics), Entity (Digital Art), umich-mug (Mac User Group), BUNAC (International Employment Programme)

Skills

Experienced with: C++, python, Javascript, Java, Perl, PHP
Familiar with: Backend Infrastructure, Scalability, Enterprise Application Development, Game Development

Code

Some code is publicly available:

https://bitbucket.org/poppy_linden (NOTE: may appear that I am coding long after my departure from Linden Lab. This is an artifact of the workings of the Mercurial revision control system and of Linden's merge and release process.)
https://bitbucket.org/pauloppenheim
http://pauloppenheim.com/portfolio/

Projects

Anchormachine (March 2011): an HTML 5 app to display and schedule various types of content. Written to make projecting web pages onto a building easier for SXSW 2011. (Open source on bitbucket.org/pauloppenheim)
The Resistance (April 2004): a Mac OS X game written for the Wolverine Soft 48 hour game competition with Jon Woodard in C++ using OpenGL and GLUT. (More info available on pauloppenheim.com.)

Hobbies

Music production and DJing, software development, personal informatics / quantified self, video games, blogging and web development.