JOSEPH H. HARDING

joehharding@gmail.com - https://josephharding.github.io

Employment History

Bloomberg Sell-Side Enterprise Products (acquired Broadway Technology October 2023)

Senior Engineer II (August 2020 - present)

Senior Consultant (August 2018 - August 2020)

Tech lead for the Deployment Engineering group which is responsible for automating installation of Broadway’s trading software. Worked with customers to integrate our software stack into a variety of different self-hosted and cloud based environments. Led the adoption of Ansible as the company standard for automation and developed new environment and release management processes that enabled more efficient and production-like testing.

tech stack: C++, Python, Colocated Infrastructure, Bash, PowerShell, general networking, profiling, virtualization

IBM Watson and Cloud Platform

Advisory Software Engineer (October 2015 - August 2018)
Tech lead for Client Experience Center visualization team with duties covering development, server infrastructure management, software tech stack definition, and the release and operations strategy. tech stack: Bash, C++, Python, Private and Cloud Infrastructure, General Linux, CI and Ops Tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Docker

Staff Software Engineer (August 2014 - October 2015)
Served as tech lead of Watson Prototypes. Led development, tech stack definition, and the release/operations strategy for client web application prototypes utilizing IBM Watson APIs. tech stack: Javascript, Python, Bash

Zynga

Senior Software Engineer (June 2013 – November 2013)
Primary tools engineer on FarmVille. Major contributor to the Content Management System used by the entire studio to release new items into the game. tech stack: Javascript, Python, PHP, Bash, Private Infrastructure

Software Engineer (June 2011 – June 2013)

Feature developer on FarmVille. Primary developer of major features including Expansion Farms, the Facebook Request 2.0 implementation, and the DinoLab - my hackathon project turned profitable and often reused staple feature. tech stack: Flash, Python, PHP, Bash, AWS

Projects

Earlyman: 3D scene scripter. - http://josephharding.net/earlyman - tech stack: C++, Blender, Python, WASM

Bitkin Live: Retro platformer A.I. sandbox - https://bitkin.live - tech stack: Java, Python, OpenGL ES, GCP

Agonoid II: A 3D space sim with A.I. battle mode - http://josephharding.net/agonoid - tech stack: WebGL

Education

University of Texas at Austin (May 2011)

B.S. in Mathematics, Area: Scientific Computation and B. A. in English