Holden M. Jones - Programmer & Designer

PROFILE

Holden Michael Jones
Software Engineer

Professional software developer with five years of experience in full-stack software engineering at global scale.

Bellevue, WA

United States

CONTACT

206 334 2550

me@holdenmjones.com

holdenmjones.com

github.com/holdenjones

linkedin.com/in/holdenmjones/

LATEST EMPLOYMENT

2022-2023 - Software Development Engineer II
Color Health - Diagnostics Team
* Led a cross-team working group on redesign of HIPAA-compliant insurance collection architecture, creating high-quality modules reused across the Color web stack.
* Developed features for report generation tools and customer-facing diagnostic portals

EDUCATION

Fall 2013--Spring 2017 - University of Pittsburgh
Bachelor of Computer Science
Magna Cum Laude
Dean's List

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

2019-2021 - Software Development Engineer
Amazon.com - Shopping Cart Team
* Led a project team of fellow engineers, working alongside stakeholders and subject matter experts, to redesign the client-side architecture behind the Amazon Shopping Cart.
* Used skills in JavaScript, CSS, React-equivalent internal frameworks, and systems design to create a scalable architecture for the future.

2017-2019 - Software Development Engineer
Amazon.com - Transparency Team
* Worked alongside stakeholders to build a customer-facing portal for automating customer requests
* Streamlined internal processes with custom Rails web applications

LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE

Strong: Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript

Knowledgeable: Java, Go, HTML/CSS, C, C++, PHP, SQL, C#, ADA, Python

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Strong: AWS, IntelliJ, jQuery, Rails, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Unity, git, Redux

Knowledgeable: Visual Studio, Eclipse, TensorFlow, Meteor.js, OpenGL, Bootstrap, SciPy, NumPy, Cocos2Dx, MySQL

PERSONAL PROJECTS

Evolutionary Neural Network
* Research project using TensorFlow, presented at UPJ SPACE 2017
* Evolved image recognition neural network to optimize training parameters

CardKeeper
* MongoDB-backed Rails app for trading card ecosystem simulation
* Allows for collection management and atomic transactions between players

GlyphPass
* Secure visual password system using Golang
* Led programming team & designed hashing algorithm

Evolutionary Neural Network

Team Size: 1
Role: Programmer & Presenter
Languages Used: Python

Research project presented at UPJ SPACE 2017
Developed using Google's TensorFlow library and TFLearn.
Evolved image recognition neural network to optimize input parameters to create best accuracy and fastest training time
Directed study under supervision of Dr. James Bilitski, Ph.D.

Poster Presentation (PDF)

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CardKeeper

Team Size: 1
Role: Programmer & Operator
Stack: Rails, Passenger, NGINX, MongoDB, SQLite

Closed-source personal project for simulating a physical trading-card economy virtually with whitelisted participants.
Self-developed and self-hosted Ruby on Rails stack with MongoDB database storage.
Allows private participants to grow their virtual collection as part of group events, as well as trade unwanted cards to others using secure, atomic transactions.
Proprietary assets pertaining to the exact system being simulated have been removed from screenshots for legal compliance.

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GlyphPass

Team Size: 6
Role: Programming Lead & Project Designer
Languages Used: Go, CSS, HTML, JavaScript

Group project for Software Engineering class created over span of four months.
Led Agile team with creation of initial design, design consulting, and programming.
Designed custom back-end hashing algorithm
Go back-end with Sciter HTML/CSS desktop UI engine for front-end

GitHub Repository

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IceList

Team Size: 20+
Role: Programming Lead & Design Lead
Languages Used: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, LESS

Social media application created using Meteor.js framework
Programming lead and initial designer for Agile team of 20+ students
Implemented using Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3) for scalability
Led daily scrums over four months and managed team Taiga.io tracking

GitHub Repository

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SoulMage

Team Size: 2
Role: Game Designer & Programmer
Languages Used: C++

Mobile top-down shooter game created in XCode using Cocos2Dx
Created complete game design, hand-crafted all pixel art, and served as primary programmer
Implemented over period of one month with complete visuals, music, and sound effects
Version controlled using BitBucket by Atlassian git hosting.

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Stak Attak

Team Size: 3
Role: Game Designer & Lead Programmer
Languages Used: ADA

Party-based RPG dungeon crawler written entirely in ADA 95.
Designed custom ADA graphics library using terminal color escape codes + custom image formats
Led team of three amateur programmers through learning BitBucket and basic Agile development
Procedurally generated dungeon names, monster types, party members, and loot for endless variety

GitHub Repository

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Vector Logos

Tools Used: InkScape

Professional vector logos for a variety of professional clients
Logos used in both personal and professional projects
Personally-made logos became final logos for IceList, GlyphPass, and other projects
Created logos and advertising materials for university clubs

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Holden Jones 2017