Daniel O’Brien’s Personal Site

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Name:: Daniel O’Brien
Background:: B.Sc. Computer Science, Senior Ruby Developer for Nulayer, former Google Software Engineer
Location:: Toronto, Canada
Email:: dan@dobs.org
Website:: dobs.org (or dobs.ca)
Facebook:: dobs.ca
Twitter:: dobs
LinkedIn:: dobsdotorg
Picasa:: danielobrien

About Me

Originally from Toronto, Canada, I joined Google Inc. in 2004 and graduated from Ryerson University in 2005, after which I moved down to Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters. Since leaving Google in 2009 I’ve returned to Canada to pursue personal projects and charitable volunteer work.

While at Google I worked on such projects as AdWords (primarily the AdWords API), Google Code (including project hosting) and App Engine. My on-the-job experience includes includes such languages as Python, Java, C++, PHP, and Ruby; SOAP, REST, and JSON APIs and Protocols; and a broad range of toolsets and technology, from DBMS systems (Postgresql, MySQL), VCS (Git, Hg, Subversion), and platforms (Linux, OS X, Windows).

Most recently I've worked as a senior Ruby developer with Nulayer, and previous to that I spent a year working as a QA analyst for Sparkroom Sparkroom.

Interests

Languages

Arduino
C
C++
C#
CSS
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Objective C
Perl
PHP
Processing
Prolog
Python
Rails
REST
Ruby
Scala
SOAP
SQL
UML
Visual Basic
XHTML
XML

Frameworks and Applications

Access
Ant
Apache HTTPD
App Engine
Coreutils
Eclipse
Emacs
IBM DB2
IntelliJ IDEA
Maven
MongoDB
MySQL
Postgres
Redis
Sqllite
TestNG
VIM
Visual Studio
Visio
Xcode

Platforms

Android
iPhone
Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu)
Mac OS X
Microsoft Windows
Solaris

Computer Science

Accessibility
API Design
Agile Methodologies
Bayesian Statistics
Calculus
Computer Architecture Design
Database Systems
Design Patterns
Discrete Mathematics
Frequentist Statistics
Functional Programming
Information Architecture
HCI
Linear Algebra
Network Systems
Number Theory
Object Oriented Programming