CV

GitHub • michaelawhite.net • mikewhite314@gmail.com

Education

• Tufts University Sep 2008 - May 2012

  B.S. in Computer Science

• University of Tübingen Mar 2011 - July 2011

  Study abroad

• Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School May 2008

  • National Merit Finalist
  • National Finalist, Team America Rocketry Challenge, 2007-2008

Experience

• MyGEDCOMs 2018 - present

  Founder and CEO

  • Developer-owner of a GeneWeb-based GEDCOM upload genealogy hosting site with Bring Your Own Domain, unlimited generation maps on any report or chart, and automatic Dropbox upload of photos

• Merck June 2015 - May 2016

  Software Engineer

  • Designed and implemented an interactive web application for browsing terabytes of drug-related data stitched together from multiple databases with intelligence dashboards and data export capabilities. Designed and implemented a nested query layer on top of an external flat HTTP query API.

• Dimagi, Inc Sept 2012 - July 2014

  Software Engineer

  • Full stack developer on CommCare HQ, a mobile data collection platform with case management and reporting. Contributed significant process changes, refactorings, and architectural suggestions.
  • Primary maintainer of a mid-sized legacy JavaScript XForm designer, including major new features, bugfixes, performance improvements and significant bottom-line refactoring

• GetchaBooks, LLC 2010 - 2012

  Co-Founder

  • Co-founder of a streamlined course-based textbook price comparison site for 1200 colleges in the U.S. that scraped college bookstore sites on demand.
  • Wrote most of the backend
  • Named one of Inc. Magazine’s Coolest College Startups of 2011

Research Experience

• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology June 2010 - August 2010

  Student Research Assistant (remote)

  • Designed and implemented a semantic search extension for Semantic MediaWiki 2 that interpreted free- form text-based queries as structured queries using existing semantic data. Added faceted browsing to the default semantic search results page.

Publications

• Michael A. White. A Self-Hosting Point-and-Click Editor for Any Functionally-Specified GUI-DB Application. https://www.overleaf.com/read/ymsbmtwnydft#efbba5

Projects

• SQLAlchemy Graph-Based Access Control forthcoming

  • A seamless declarative graph-based access control extension for the SQLAlchemy Python object-relational mapper

• React JSON API

  • Declarative asynchronous data loading from JSON APIs into relational REST models for the React functional-reactive JavaScript UI library

• JSONAlchemy

  • Efficient flat views of multi-tenant or multi-user JSON form data stored in PostgreSQL in a JSON column, using partial indexes and JSON Schema

Technologies

Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, C, SQL, HTML, CSS. High reading proficiency in C++, Java, Rust, Go, and OCaml.

Libraries: Django, Flask, React, Backbone, SQLAlchemy, Node.js

Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), CouchDB, ElasticSearch

Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, Arch)

Version Control: Git

Editors: Vim