Resume for Drew Perttula - 2013
drewp@bigasterisk.com •
510-841-1265 •
Belmont, California
Education
B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley,
December 2000
Skills
12+ years of Python and C (using Python C API and Pyrex to
combine them)
Web technologies: DHTML, CSS, HTTP, AJAX, RDF, SVG, Javascript
Unix system tools: Ubuntu, puppet, supervisord, sensu, nginx, MongoDB, OpenRDF Sesame, ElasticSearch
14+ years of administrating Linux systems
Past experience with Java, Tcl, and Perl
2D and 3D graphics applications: Maya, Shake, After Effects, Inkscape,
Gimp, POV-Ray
Selected work experience
DreamWorks Animation (Pacific Data Images)
2009-03 to present
Infrastructure engineer
Design and prototype several services related to asset management and data integration
Serve as lead for services related to file grouping, tagging, and search
Proposed the use of RDF and guided its implementation in a project to unify data sources across the studio
Write tools and procedures for other developers to use to deploy their web services across multiple servers
2007 to 2009-03
Pipeline engineer
Write and maintain artist workflow tools for character effects department
Help the porting effort by code-reviewing Python and porting tools from Perl to Python
2004-09 to 2007
Cloth animator
Develop cloth garments from artwork and animate them in production shots
Write some experimental RDF systems for tracking the status of data as it travels through departments
2003-08 to 2004-09
Resource assistant
Write new tools and improve existing tools to
streamline our workflow by visualizing and summarizing data
Blue and Gold Fleet
2001 to 2003
Contractor
Python and Zope interface with a proprietary database for a ticketing system
Reports and visualization of sales logs and ticketing information on Linux and Solaris
University of California, Berkeley
2001-01 to 2001-05
Head teaching assistant for computer architecture course
2000-01 to 2000-05
Teaching assistant for digital design course
Open source projects I've written
Some of my other projects
Photo album using RDF
Some open source projects I've contributed to (bug reports, patches)
rdflib | the main pure-python RDF library |
restkit | python http client library |
zfs-fuse | linux integration of the ZFS filesystem |
firefox | a tool for downloading Chrome |
tahoe | distributed, encrypted filesystem |
pygame | python graphics primitives library |