Jake Mannix

Seattle, WA

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What's your dream job?

I've pretty much got it, actually: applying interesting and abstract mathematical theory to concrete real-world problems, at a company where I'm treated like a grownup.

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Work history

LinkedIn July 2008 to the present
Principal Software Engineer - Search
Jobster May 2007 to July 2008
Lead Search Architect

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Pluggd January 2007 to May 2007
Sr. Software Development Engineer

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How would you describe your time at Pluggd?

Implemented and maintained high-performance multithreaded RSS parser/crawler with java.util.concurrent thread pooling, Hibernate/MySQL ORM layer, and Jakarta Commons Digester, and Spring/XFire as the web services interface.

Designed a Latent Semantic Analysis framework (using a custom made asymmetric generalized hebbian algorithm for non-memory limited SVD) for content clustering and "related words" concept modeling / query expansion.

Wrote cross-browser save Rails code to display searchable / tagable / commentable podcast RSS content.... read more
Continental Data Graphics June 2006 to December 2006
Sr. Software Development Engineer (contract)

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How would you describe your time at Continental Data Graphics?

Designed and developed a "Generic Document Viewing Framework" - a SpringMVC/iBatis/Oracle java webapp for aircraft maintenance manuals for Boeing's 787 fleet.

Spec'ed out and wrote XML schema for specifying compartmentalized intra-organizational webapp layout framework.

Wrote AJAX components (with the dojo javascript library) for a client-side controller architecture for the above mentioned webapp framework, specifically including a Smart (AJAX + SEO friendly) Session History manager.... read more
Centeris June 2005 to March 2006
Software Development Engineer

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How would you describe your time at Centeris?

Wrote Java utility code for remote system administration of Linux systems from a Windows client, using SOAP web services, JSP/servlets and Jetty as the webapp container.

Maintained company-wide multi-language (C/C++/Java) build system (using JUnit, Ant/NAnt, Cruise Control, and Emma). Built custom Samba RPMs for a variety of Linux flavors/architectures.... read more
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center June 2004 to June 2005
Resarch Associate

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How would you describe your time at Stanford Linear Accelerator...?

Performed theoretical high energy physics and cosmology research for Stanford University's Institute for Theoretical Physics: developed and tested inflationary cosmology simulation software, with C++/optimized ASM for the computational back-end, Hibernate / MySQL datastore, and Jakarta Struts MVC (Servlet + JSP) for front-end web presentation. Computed numerical differential equation integration (and analytic approximations) for cutting-edge theoretical dark energy models.
Contract Java Developer... read more
Realogic July 2003 to January 2004
Java Developer (contract)

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How would you describe your time at Realogic?

Designed and developed from scratch, an object-oriented secure distributed licensing Java library - networked client/server (Commons HttpClient/Servlet) and file-based stand-alone (with DSA for local permissions-store signatures) - for intellectual property rights control on remote contract for a real estate management company, from initial specifications, to UML diagrammatics, to API, working code library and test harness.... read more
Aventail July 2002 to June 2003
Software Development Engineer in Test

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How would you describe your time at Aventail?

Maintained Perl5-based test automation framework for SOCKS5 firewall traversal platform. Migrated said system to java.
RealNetworks June 1999 to August 2001
SDE

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How would you describe your time at RealNetworks?

C++ Softare Development on the RealServer product line. Integrated OpenSSL into RealMedia architecture in the RealServer core. Designed, spec'd out, and implemented Twofish/Diffie-Hellman based cryptographic C++ library for use with stream encryption (UDP+multicast) in RealSystem.

Education

University Of Washington MS September 2002 to June 2004
Mathematics

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How would you describe your time at University Of Washington MS?

Algebraic Topology and Mathematical Physics
Physics

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How would you describe your time at Stanford University PhD (de...?

Supersymmetric theoretical particle physics research.

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