Sasha Slutsker

Resume

I no longer keep this up to date, see latest here.

Education

University of Maryland - College Park (September 2006 - December 2009)
- GPA: 3.89/4.00
- Degree: Cum Laude - Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
- Degree: Cum Laude - Bachelor of Arts in Government/Politics
- Honors: College Park Scholars Citation, Gannon Portal Scholarship Recipient (twice)
- Software Engineering course: Led the "Graphic Advisor" project, which is a system that helps students make four-year plans. It is written in PHP/MySQL and Javascript/jQuery, and it was adopted by the University of Maryland. I was the leader of a team of 10 students, and continued working on the project after the class ended (received an A+ for the class.) Furthermore, I am the primary developer and database administrator on the project.

Experience

February 2010 - present Seattle, WA

Amazon.com, Software Development Engineer
September 2009 - December 2009 College Park, MD

University of Maryland, Instructor
- Taught a class on Web Development.
- Introduced students to HTML/CSS, Javascript, and PHP.
May 2009 - August 2009 Seattle, WA

Amazon.com, Software Development Engineer Intern
- Developed applications for the Email Platform team.
September 2008 - May 2009 College Park, MD

University of Maryland Library Systems, IT Programmer
- Developed various web applications that the McKeldin Library staff uses.
- Created new features for different library personnel upon request.
- Worked in PHP, MySQL, and Python. Helped migrate a lot of content from the old library systems to a new system with a collection of Python scripts.
- Worked on a team with programmers and nonprogrammers.
September 2008 - May 2009 College Park, MD

University of Maryland Computer Science Department, Teaching Assistant
- First semester: Helped students and taught them how to program in Java during office hours, also graded quizzes and projects.
- Second semester: Helped students with mathematical proofs and other challenges during office hours for the “Discrete Structures” class, also graded exams.
November 2007 - August 2008 College Park, MD

University of Maryland Student Application Services, Programmer
- Developed the technologies that students use for registration, programmed in Java/Oracle.
January 2007 - November 2007 College Park, MD

University of Maryland CATT Laboratory, Programmer, Research/Development
- Worked on a team of eight developing transportation technologies (PHP and PostregSQL.)

Hobbies

July 2007 - present

OurUMD, Co-Founder and Primary Developer
- Created OurUMD, which is a website that students at the University of Maryland use.
- Students can plan their schedule with many different options using this tool.
- Wrote a large majority of the code, which is in PHP and MySQL.
- Responsible for maintaining the website and administering the database.

Skills

Programming Languages: PHP, Java, SQL, Javascript (jQuery), C, C++, some Perl, Python
Operating Systems: Linux
Other: HTML, CSS, LaTeX
Foreign Languages: English, Russian, some Latin