I'm a software engineer with a background in mathematics. I think critically, take initiative, and push hard to get things done.

Performance Engineer @ I wore multiple hats in a startup environment. I automated testing of the company's distributed database product and built a data visualization system for benchmark results. I also: assisted the IT team in daily operations, spent six months as a solutions engineer, participated in QA activities, hacked drivers, participated in database design discussions, built several "workflow smoothing" webapps, managed a lab of one hundred machines, and generally fought fires. From May 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) Cambridge, MAGraduate Student @ I taught calculus, and worked on a few problems in number theory. I was a resource for fellow grad students and faculty in the area of mathematical research software. From September 2004 to November 2012 (8 years 3 months) Waltham, MASoftware Engineer @ I wrote cross-browser AJAX/DHTML front-ends and Java back-ends for Athenium's web applications. I extended and improved our infrastructure management tool which was responsible for building and deploying the products to test and production environments as well as taking database snapshots. From 2006 to 2011 (5 years) Waltham, MAQA Engineer @ I built a framework to automate the testing of the numerical accuracy of MathCAD calculations. From 2005 to 2005 (less than a year) Cambridge, MA

PhD, Mathematics @ Brandeis University From 2004 to 2012 B.Sc., Mathematics @ University of Toronto From 2000 to 2004 Alex Charis is skilled in: JavaScript, Java, Software Development, SQL, MySQL, XML, Linux, Algorithms, Python, CSS, C++, Web Applications, Perl, Unix, Testing