Jesse Luehrs ============ Address: 70 America St. #1R Providence, RI 02903 Phone: (618) 616-6287 Email: doy@tozt.net Website: http://tozt.net/ ========= Education ========= University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Engineering Urbana, IL Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Minor in Mathematics August 2004 - May 2008 - Overall GPA: 3.61, Technical GPA: 3.81 - James Scholar in Engineering (2004 - 2005) - Dean's List (Fall 2004 - Fall 2006) - Graduated with Honors =============== Work Experience =============== Infinity Interactive (http://iinteractive.com/) Manhasset, NY (telecommuting) Senior Programmer February 2010 - present I am in charge of a large, legacy codebase which handles employee engagement survey registration and reporting, and I have also written and deployed many smaller sites myself, mostly using Perl. Since we rely heavily on open source software, a large portion of my time is also devoted to maintaining various open source projects, as well as developing new open source software that could be useful in the future. For instance, I contributed to Moose, Plack, and Perl through work, and developed OX, Text::Handlebars, and p5-mop for use in work. These projects are described more fully below. UIUC Hydrogeology Lab (http://www.gwb.com/) Urbana, IL Visiting Research Programmer February 2006 - February 2010 I worked on the Geochemists' Workbench, a geochemistry software suite written in C++ and Tcl/Tk. I added support for several new image output formats, including PDF, SVG, and Adobe Illustrator, as well as improving the existing PostScript support by adding the ability to embed TrueType fonts. I also helped add parallel processing support to several scientific calculations, using OpenMP. I designed a new XML-based configuration file format for our applications and ported our calculation applications to Linux, to allow them to be run on large clusters. Finally, I implemented a testing framework for our calculation applications using Perl's Test::More. ======== Projects ======== All of my personal open source work is available on GitHub (https://github.com/doy). My Perl open source work is also available on the CPAN (https://metacpan.org/author/DOY). Text::Handlebars (https://github.com/doy/text-handlebars): 2013 - present I am the author of Text::Handlebars, a port of the Handlebars.js templating language to Perl. It uses a custom parser on top of the Xslate template engine framework. It supports nearly the entire feature set of the JavaScript implementation, and we used it at Infinity Interactive to ease the transition of one of our large web applications from client side templates to server side templates. Reply (https://github.com/doy/reply): 2013 - present I am the author of Reply, a customizable and lightweight REPL for Perl. It provides features like pluggable tab completion, automatic class loading and refreshing, history support, and (through the Carp::Reply module) automatically launching a REPL when an exception is thrown. It can be easily extended through a powerful plugin system. Plack (http://plackperl.org/): 2012 - present I am a member of the core development team for Plack, the reference implementation of the PSGI specification for Perl web server/application interaction (similar to Python's WSGI and Ruby's Rack). I have contributed to the design of PSGI, as well as implementing my own PSGI-based web framework called OX (below). p5-mop (https://github.com/stevan/p5-mop-redux): 2011 - present I am one of the lead developers for p5-mop, which is a prototype for a new object system for the Perl core. It provides features such as attribute declarations, method signatures, and roles to bring Perl up to the level of other modern languages, but it also includes a fully featured meta object protocol, for an added level of power and customizability. Perl (http://www.perl.org/): 2011 - present I was the release manager for the 5.17.1 development release of Perl, and I have also contributed many bug fixes to the Perl core. I am currently working on preparing the p5-mop project (above) for integration into the Perl core. OX (https://github.com/iinteractive/OX): 2011 - present I am the lead author of OX, a web framework for Perl based on the PSGI specification, which uses the Bread::Board dependency injection system to manage application components. We have used it internally at Infinity Interactive for many client projects. In addition to writing most of the framework itself, I also wrote a series of advent calendar posts documenting it, which can be seen at http://ox.iinteractive.com/advent/. Moose (http://moose.perl.org/): 2009 - present I am a member of the lead development team for Moose, a module which provides advanced object orientation capabilities for Perl. I was also the release manager from 2011--2012. I wrote several extensions for Moose, including MooseX::NonMoose, which allows classes built with Moose to easily interoperate with other types of classes, and MooseX::Aliases, which allows Moose attributes to be referred to by different names. TAEB (http://taeb.github.io/): 2008 - present I am one of the lead framework developers for TAEB, a Perl framework for programmatic interaction with NetHack. I am also the primary developer for the leading AI written for TAEB. I developed several standalone Perl modules, including Graph::Implicit, which implements several useful graph algorithms, and IO::Pty::Easy, which provides a simple read/write interface for interacting with pseudo terminals. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (http://crawl.develz.org/): 2009 - 2012 I am a member of the development team for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, a roguelike game written in C++ and Lua. I contributed several features throughout the game, and I was also the release manager for the 0.6 release. System for Defining, Documenting, and Recording Game Events (http://volition-inc.com/): 2007 - 2008 This is a library written in C which can be added to games in order to track arbitrary events and report them to a remote server, for use in gameplay testing. This project was completed for Volition as my senior project, and was used as part of their testing process for Saints Row 2. ===== Talks ===== Slides and videos (where available) for these talks can be found at http://tozt.net/talks.html. Dependency Injection with Bread::Board (50 min): YAPC::NA 2012, YAPC::EU 2012 This talk provides an overview of dependency injection, and gives concrete examples of it using the Bread::Board and Bread::Board::Declare Perl modules. OX - the hardest working two letters in Perl (50 min): YAPC::NA 2011 This talk describes the OX web framework for Perl (mentioned above in the Projects section), including a conceptual overview and usage examples. Extending Moose (50 min): YAPC::NA 2010 This talk goes into detail describing Moose's meta object protocol, including what it is, how it works, and how you can extend it. ====== Skills ====== Languages: I am fluent in C, C++, Perl, Lua, and shell, and I am proficient in JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Scala, Rust, Tcl/Tk, and LaTeX. Tools: Make, vim, git, Firefox