Resume for Derek Thurn
derek@thurn.ca
github.com/thurn

SUMMARY      
  Overview
    * New graduate from the University of Waterloo
    * Completed 7 programming internships, each four months long
    * Many independent programming projects, see github.com/thurn

  Programming Languages
    * Significant professional experience (4+ years) with Python and Java
    * 3 years experience with JavaScript (including jQuery and ExtJS)
    * Some experience (2 years) with Ruby and C++
    * Functional programming apologist; proficient with Clojure and Haskell

INTERNSHIPS  
  Facebook Groups Team
    * Coded several upcoming Facebook Groups features (in PHP)
  Facebook ETL Team
    * Built high-volume data pipelines with Python and SQL
  Primal
    * Wrote Python code for several core user-facing web applications
  Amazon
    * Coded a Java-based web front-end for an internal monitoring service
  Sybase
    * Developed production code for the Sybase IQ database query engine
  Research in Motion
    * Built a visual diagnostic tool for the BlackBerry 3G team
  CaseWare
    * Proposed and coded a JavaScript automated testing framework
       
PROJECTS
  * Implemented a compiler in Python for a substantial subset of Java
  * Wrote a blog engine in Clojure based on Google App Engine
  * Worked with a group to implement a Rails-based tournament system
  * Wrote a recursive-descent parser for Java 1.4 in Haskell
  * Produced designs for the user interface research of Prof. Michael Terry
  * Wrote Alloy code for modeling Java Collections with Prof. Derek Rayside

INTERESTS      
  * Writer of fortnightly algorithm column for math society newspaper
  * Software Engineering Class of 2011 Academic Representative
  * Founded Software Engineering newsgroup
  * Waterloo Speech and Debate team, competed internationally

EDUCATION    
  * Bachelor of Software Engineering
  * University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. (2006-2011)