Tristan King

email: [email protected]
web: https://tristan.sh

Languages/Tools/Technology

15 years professional experience using:

• Java
• Python/Jython
• Javascript
• HTML (including html5 and css)
• Bash/Shell scripting
• Solidity

Personal experience using:

• Clojure (4 years)
• C/C++ (including experience with the c++11 standard)
• Rust

Tools, SDKs and Technology:

• Java: Eclipse, Tomcat, Maven, Spring, JSP, RDF
  
• Python: Flask, Tornado, aiohttp, asyncpg, asyncio, Django
  
• Databases: Postgresql, mysql, Redis, Kafka, Cassandra
  
• Blockchain: Etheruem, parity, geth
  
• Cloud services: Google compute engine, Google storage, Google load balancer, Heroku, letsencrypt
  
• Other: Emacs, Linux (experienced with Debian/Ubuntu and Archlinux)

Work Experience

2013-2019 Bakken & Baeck. Bonn, Germany.
Software Engineer

• Core developer of the Wake platform.
• Developed backend systems for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain including Coinbase Wallet (previously Toshi).

2009-2012 The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Software Engineer for the iGreen project.

• Worked on the core iGreen software architecture using Java, Spring and JSP.
• Storage of ISO 11783 data and conversion of that data to RDF.
• Synchronization of data between our systems and CouchDB (converting between RDF and JSON-LD).
• Integration of external services with our systems.
• Responsible for deploying and managing demonstrator servers for numerous project partners.
• Collaboration with farming equipment manufacturers on specifications forcommunication between machine terminals and iGreen Services.

2005-2009 James Cook University eReasearch Centre, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Software Engineer/Research Officer for the DART and Archer projects.

• Designing and building workflows for the retrieval and processing of scientific datausing the Kepler Workflow System including processing metadata retrieved from X-Ray Diffractometers and processing streaming data from various sensors deployed on the Great Barrier Reef.
• Built domain specific components for Kepler to facilitate the domain specific requirements of scientific workflows.
• Built a Jython/Django based web protal providing a generic environment to facilitate execution of any Kepler workflow and simplifying the changing of parameters andretrieval of output.
• Managed student projects.

2003-2005 James Cook University. Towsville, QLD, Australia.
Teaching and Tutoring for the School of Information Technology.

• Provided students with assistance in general learning, solving practical problems andassignment problems for various programming and networking subjects including:
  • Introduction to Computer Science (Beginner C/C++ programming)
  • Data Structures and Algorithms (Advanced C/C++ programming)
  • Internet Technology (Network and Internet Technologies and beginner socket and web programming/scripting)
  • Portable Programming (PHP, Perl and Python programming)

Open-Source Contributions

• Minor patches submitted to and accepted by the Jython and Clojure projects.
• Patches submitted and accepted to various python Ethereum libraries.
• Maintainer of the JSON-LD implementation for Java.

Education

2000-2005 James Cook University. Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Bachelor of Information Technology (with Honours)

• Completed four years of undergraduate studies completing with class 2A Honours.
• Completed an Honours thesis on the feasibility of using low cost graphics hardware forrendering bioinformatics data.

Doctor of Philosophy (incomplete)

• Undertook a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics for 2 years. Thesis title was “A Bioinformatics Application for Protein Structure Prediction”.
• Suspended the Ph.D. to work on the DART and ARCHER projects.

Revevant links

• Coinbase Wallet/Toshi: https://wallet.coinbase.com/
• Wake: https://wake.com/
• Bakken & Baeck: https://bakkenbaeck.com
• The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence: http://www.dfki.de/
• The iGreen Project: http://igreen-projekt.de/
• James Cook University eReasearch Centre: http://eresearch.jcu.edu.au/
• The DART Project: http://dart.edu.au/
• The Archer Project: http://archer.edu.au/