My goal is to help build software that fosters community or facilitates knowledge transfer in innovative ways. My hope is that such software will help the next generation become more closely connected and knowledge acquisition will be democratized globally.

Sr. Front-end Engineer @ Creating solutions to enhance the experience of students and teachers within a classroom setting. Supporting engineering team: code quality, build tools, application health. From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Software Developer @ Built out frontend applications using Backbone.js, Coffeescript and Node.js From January 2012 to June 2014 (2 years 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaWordpress Developer @ Enhanced Wordpress plugins and themes to be simpler to use for clients and integrate nicely with the Fotomoto and Picasa Web Albums APIs. From June 2011 to September 2011 (4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaJava Developer @ Using computer vision techniques and the GStreamer library port for Java, extended a service API to allow for automated segmentation of video lectures based on the slide changes found in the video background as part of the Undergraduate Capstone project (ucosp.ca). From January 2011 to April 2011 (4 months) Test Automation & Front End Engineer @ Crafted Adobe Flex prototypes showcasing the current capabilities of the company's software for meetings with enterprise clients. Responsible for ensuring quality of products and tools produced using Junit and Jmeter to unit and stress test. From September 2010 to December 2010 (4 months) Javascript Developer @ Working on bug crushing and in-house tools for a complex web application using JSP/JSF and Javascript (YUI) in the final stages before release. From May 2010 to August 2010 (4 months) Ruby on Rails Developer @ · Using web consistency and design concepts, implemented social interaction features to enable inter-user connections and learning. · Followed Ruby on Rails best practices for programming: adhered to MVC constraints and placement, followed REST tenets and built Ruby template objects to control rendering of heavily used HTML components. From January 2009 to March 2010 (1 year 3 months) Java Desktop Application Developer @ Elicited requirements and engineered a software program used by a PHd candidate in user research looking at citizens choices in resource allocation by geographic location. From January 2009 to March 2009 (3 months)

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science @ The University of British Columbia From 2005 to 2012 Tristan Goffman is skilled in: Ruby, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Java, Node.js, Git, CSS, Backbone.js, Web Applications, JUnit, REST, HTML, CoffeeScript, Front-end, RSpec