EXPERIENCE
Senior Developer Arcadia Data February 2017 - Present
- Implemented search-based visualization with natural language processing, enabling customers to more easily create visuals to answer business questions
- Designed and implemented custom job scheduler in Django used by customers to run thousands of repeating emails, database refreshes, and sql commands
- Implemented security feature for restricting access to visualizations with ACL permissions, coordinating requirements with business clients
- Presented on fundamentals of good visualizations at P&G Women in Tech workshop
- Developed and implemented a workshop of best practices and new technologies for the company on the latest production version of JavaScript (ES6)
Developer Arcadia Data March 2015 - February 2017
- Designed and implemented new D3 visuals and features (including boxplot, user/group management page, and expression autocompleter)
- Learned syntactical differences between various database connections and designed simplified window function builder for Impala, Hive, Postgres, SparkSQL, and Redshift databases
- Identified and implemented improvements in usability, filing and fixing over 600 bugs and improvements, producing numerous updates on time to improve customer experience
- Spearheaded creation of unit tests for visual rendering
Program Analyst National Institutes of Health August 2012 - August 2014
- Created Google scripts (a JavaScript variant) for automating internal collaboration requests and publication statistics
- Organized publication discussions for ENCODE, mouse ENCODE, and modENCODE publications, resulting in co-authorship on two articles in Nature 1, 2
PROJECTS
Spectrum News http://b.cssherry.com/2zAtP0P GitHub
A Chrome extension that enables users to explore news from different political viewpoints by showing them articles concerning the same topic from news outlets with different political leanings
Instacation instacation.cssherry.com GitHub
Allows user to view photo albums by location using Google Maps API in a Backbone app consuming RESTful JSON Rails API.
EDUCATION
App Academy San Francisco, CA Dec. 2014 - March 2015
12 week intensive software development training course with 3% acceptance
Yale University New Haven, CT Sept. 2008 - May 2012
B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (intensive research track)