Jonathan "Duke" Leto

Jonathan "Duke" Leto

Lead Engineer at Chirpify

Location
Portland, Oregon (Portland, Oregon Area)
Industry
Internet

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Jonathan "Duke" Leto's Overview

Current
  • Lead Engineer at Chirpify
  • Fellow at Mozilla WebFWD
  • Founder at Leto Labs LLC
  • Developer at CASH Music
  • Board Member at Parrot Foundation
  • Community Ambassador at Parrot Foundation
  • Core Developer at BioPerl Project
  • Core Developer at Parrot Foundation
Past
  • Senior Software Engineer/Community Ambassador at VMware
  • Organization Admin at Google Code-In 2011
  • Organization Admin for Parrot Foundation at Google Summer of Code 2011
  • Bioinformatics Analyst at Boyce Thompson Institute
  • Organization Administrator for The Perl Foundation and Parrot Foundation at Google Summer Of Code 2010
  • Organization Administrator at Google Code-In 2010
  • Software Developer II at Rentrak Corporation
  • Organization Administrator at Google Summer of Code 2009
  • Graduate Research Assistant at University of Central Florida
  • Graduate Assistant at University of Central Florida
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at University of Central Florida
  • System Administrator at Lauderdale Networks
  • Senior System Administrator/Developer at T3 Link Inc
  • Programming Consultant at Mission Critical Systems
  • Linux System Administrator/Perl Programmer at Lauderdale Networks
Education
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Central Florida
  • Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Central Florida
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Jonathan "Duke" Leto's Summary

I seek a position in an innovative open source environment which utilizes my extensive software development, mathematics and leadership skills.

Specialties

Scientific Computing, SQL Schema Design, Test Driven Development, Perl 5/6, Javascript, PostgreSQL, Git, Bioinformatics

Jonathan "Duke" Leto's Experience

Lead Engineer

Chirpify

Public Company; 1-10 employees; Internet industry

February 2012Present (4 months) Portland, Oregon Area

Lead Engineer of Awesomeness.

Built and deployed Digital Content Distribution which allows selling digital content in-stream via Twitter.

Fellow

Mozilla WebFWD

September 2011Present (9 months) the internets

Founder

Leto Labs LLC

February 2011Present (1 year 4 months) Portland, Oregon

Leto Labs LLC specializes in researching, developing and deploying Free/Libre/Open Source (FLOSS) Software Solutions across various disciplines including automation, version control, scientific computing, visualization, databases and data analysis, simulation and even those quaint devices known as websites.

Developer

CASH Music

2011Present (1 year)

Board Member

Parrot Foundation

2010Present (2 years)

Community Ambassador

Parrot Foundation

2010Present (2 years)

Core Developer

BioPerl Project

Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Biotechnology industry

May 2010Present (2 years 1 month)

Core Developer

Parrot Foundation

2009Present (3 years)

Senior Software Engineer/Community Ambassador

VMware

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; VMW; Computer Software industry

December 2011February 2012 (3 months)

Organization Admin

Google Code-In 2011

November 2011January 2012 (3 months)

Organization Admin for Parrot Foundation

Google Summer of Code 2011

20112011 (less than a year)

Guiding students and mentors to successfully complete projects related to Parrot Virtual Machine.

Bioinformatics Analyst

Boyce Thompson Institute

April 2010December 2011 (1 year 9 months)

Slicing and dicing plant genomes with Perl and Postgres.

Organization Administrator for The Perl Foundation and Parrot Foundation

Google Summer Of Code 2010

March 20102010 (less than a year)

Organizing ten students and ten mentors to work on various open source projects.

Organization Administrator

Google Code-In 2010

20102010 (less than a year)

I manage students and mentors involved with Parrot Foundation and The Perl Foundation, designing coding and other types of tasks for high school students to learn about open source software.

Software Developer II

Rentrak Corporation

Public Company; 201-500 employees; RENT; Entertainment industry

November 2007April 2010 (2 years 6 months)

Created first mobile version of Rentrak Essentials website
Assisted in conversion from Subversion to Git
Designed SQL schemas to efficiently store large datasets
about mobile/web video
Designed and maintained software to automate import and
summarization of data from dozens of companies across
hundreds of data formats

Organization Administrator

Google Summer of Code 2009

May 2009September 2009 (5 months)

Organized nine students and nine mentors involvement in
GSoC 2009 with The Perl Foundation
Achieved a pass rate of 89%, over the average of 85%
Google Summer of Code 2008 - (May - Sep 2008)
Mentored Thierry Moisan for Math::GSL with The Perl
Foundation
Taught student about git, Perl 5 internals/XS, SWIG,
advanced vim features and CPAN modules

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Central Florida

Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry

August 2005November 2007 (2 years 4 months)

* Studied Inverse Scattering Theory and Solitons on a NSF grant
* Teaching Assistant for various classes

Graduate Assistant

University of Central Florida

Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry

August 2005October 2007 (2 years 3 months)

Studied "Soliton Theory" on NSF Grant
Teaching Assistant for many graduate and undergraduate
classes

Undergraduate Research Assistant

University of Central Florida

Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry

August 2002May 2003 (10 months)

System Administrator

Lauderdale Networks

19992001 (2 years)

Maintained + secured Linux servers, which consisted mostly of Apache and Zeus webservers and wrote credit card processing apps in Perl.

Senior System Administrator/Developer

T3 Link Inc

January 1999December 2001 (3 years)

Developed and maintained web-hosting shopping cart and
administration panel
Maintained Linux webservers, FreeBSD mail servers,
OpenBSD DNS servers
Lauderdale.net

Programming Consultant

Mission Critical Systems

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

20002000 (less than a year)

Linux System Administrator/Perl Programmer

Lauderdale Networks

April 1999August 2000 (1 year 5 months)

Wrote credit-card processing CGI scripts in Perl and
maintained/secured Redhat Linux servers

Jonathan "Duke" Leto's Education

University of Central Florida

MS, Mathematics

20052008

Activities and Societies: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

University of Central Florida

BS, Mathematics

20002004

Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz

German

2003

University of Central Florida

University of Central Florida

MS, Mathematical Sciences Department of Mathematics

Masters Thesis Award

Intensive Language Study Abroad Program

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