Developer at Shopify (future), Organizer at Hack the North, Lead Developer at PiinPoint
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Organized Hack the North 2015, the most anticipated tech event in Canada with over 1500 attendees • Developed a generalized hackathon organizing RESTful API service, independent of our event • Set up service infrastructure, involving Docker, Nginx, Gunicorn, Python + Tornado, and PostgreSQL • Created web interfaces for applications and internal dashboards, using React and Reflux • Organized Hack the North 2015, the most anticipated tech event in Canada with over 1500 attendees • Developed a generalized hackathon organizing RESTful API service, independent of our event • Set up service infrastructure, involving Docker, Nginx, Gunicorn, Python + Tornado, and PostgreSQL • Created web interfaces for applications and internal dashboards, using React and Reflux
What company does Joey Pereira work for?
Joey Pereira works for Techyon (Hack the North)
What is Joey Pereira's role at Techyon (Hack the North)?
Joey Pereira is Organizer - Platform Team
What industry does Joey Pereira work in?
Joey Pereira works in the Computer Software industry.
📖 Summary
Hey there! I'm an extremely optimistic and passionate person, and I am very enthusiastic at the opportunity to learn new technologies! My #1 trait is my optimism and passion towards the projects I take on, and because of this I quickly pick up new technologies. I'm always yearning to build out new products or learn exciting ideas, so I tend to create just about anything to discover how it all works. Examples for some of my ambitious projects include an emulator for a video game console (NES), creating an operating system kernel, and an automation bot with a full scripting interface via. reverse engineering for a video game (RuneScape). I attend the University of Waterloo as an undergraduate Computer Science student in the co-op program, although I currently let my passion loose at my current place of work - PiinPoint. I specifically have strong interests for functional programming patterns, entrepreneurship, computer security, electronic architectures (and a ton more!). To speak of some skills I have, but I'm always learning on the go - Languages: Javascript, Python, Java, Ruby, Racket, Objective-C, Erlang, Bash, PHP, C++ Frameworks: React, Angular.js, Node.js, Flask, Tornado, Pyramid, Django, MongoEngine, SQLAlchemy Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, RethinkDB I've taken to understanding network protocols, computer security, and program integrity. I also am extremely comfortable with Linux, virtual machines, and systems administration. I practically live and breathe Linux!Organizer - Platform Team @ • Organized Hack the North 2015, the most anticipated tech event in Canada with over 1500 attendees • Developed a generalized hackathon organizing RESTful API service, independent of our event • Set up service infrastructure, involving Docker, Nginx, Gunicorn, Python + Tornado, and PostgreSQL • Created web interfaces for applications and internal dashboards, using React and Reflux From February 2015 to Present (11 months) Lead Developer @ • Drove an early stage YC startup to have a larger feature set, more stable product and better practices • Passionately learned new technologies, and brought the projects from start to finish with complete optimism • Migrated certain data to from MongoDB to PostgreSQL using SQLAlchemy, wrote migrations using Alembic • Rebuilt the frontend codebase with React and Reflux • Implemented creation of drivetime heatmaps, by processing 700GB of geospatial data into PostgreSQL • Created a framework in PhantomJS for rendering printable PDF content • Was solely responsible for creating the iOS application from scratch in Objective-C • Rebuilt most of the Python API to follow RESTful semantics and use MongoDB MongoEngine models From September 2014 to September 2015 (1 year 1 month) Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Cumulative Average Grade: 86% @ University of Waterloo From 2013 to 2018 Startup Engineering, Algorthms, Machine Learning, Cryptography @ CourseraWeb Development @ Udacity (Online) Joey Pereira is skilled in: Python, Linux, JavaScript, Java, HTML, Git, Team Leadership, Computer Architecture, C, Reverse Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Node.js, LaTeX, Racket, Bash, C++, PHP
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