Nicolas Lara

Current

Software Engineer/Developer at Lincoln Loop, LLC

Past

Independent Contractor at S7Labs
Google Summer of Code Student at Django
Software Developer (intern) at Nextfour Group

Lead Network and Systems Administrator at Computer Laboratories - F Laboratory - USB
Network and Systems Administrator at Computer Laboratories - F Laboratory - USB

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Education

Universidad Simón Bolívar

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Nicolas Lara’s Experience

Software Engineer/Developer

Lincoln Loop, LLC

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)

Developing a project for PBS using Django.
Independent Contractor

S7Labs

(Computer Software industry)

April 2009 — August 2009 (5 months)

Development of an object mapper in Python for distributed key-value stores. Speciﬁcally focusing in HBase. Development of Boost::Python bindings to integrate CLucene's functionality into Python (released as OSS at: http://code.google.com/p/python-cylucene/). Some javascript modifications to http://standingrm.com/ using JQuery.
Google Summer of Code Student

Django

(Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

Developed aggregates functionality for the Django web framework
Worked designing and implementing aggregation support for the Django Web Framework’s Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) as part of the Google Summer of Code program. I was mentored by Russell Keith-Magee. The project is now part of Django’s codebase.
Software Developer (intern)

Nextfour Group

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — June 2008 (6 months)

Worked as a software developer designing proof-of-concept software for the company’s service uniﬁcation proposal. Designed and implemented a platform based on Java ESB technologies for integrating enterprise services with users, external devices and other services.
Lead Network and Systems Administrator

Computer Laboratories - F Laboratory - USB

(Computer Software industry)

2005 — 2007 (2 years )

Coordination of work groups for Network and System Administration. Creation of Django based systems.
Network and Systems Administrator

Computer Laboratories - F Laboratory - USB

(Computer Software industry)

2003 — 2005 (2 years )

Administration of 3 computer laboratories: 72 Linux workstations, 48 windows workstations and 8 Linux servers: NFS, LDAP, Apache, Tomcat, Webware, MySQL, Webmail, DNS, RAID, iptables, Samba, Cacti, Bugzilla, LVM2, CUPS, CVS, among others.
Creation and administration of a web systems (MySQL/Webware, MySQL/Django). User support.

Nicolas Lara’s Education

Universidad Simón Bolívar

Computer Science , Artificial Intelligence, Algorithm Design and Optimization , 2003 — 2008

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Nicolas Lara’s Interests:

Artiﬁcial Intelligence, Distribuded programing and lockless concurrency, Functional Programming, Analysis and Design of Algorithms, Linux and Open Source Development, Programming Languages and Compilation