Stanford University Stanford, CA
Masters in Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction) GPA: 4.05/4.3
Advisor: Terry Winograd

St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford Oxford, UK
Honour School of Mathematics and Computer Science Graduated with a First Class Bachelor of Arts degree with a distinction in practical work
Mathematics tutor: Hilary Priestley
Computer Science tutor: Peter Jeavons

Metamarkets San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer

Stanford University Stanford, CA
Teaching Assistant for CS448B: Data Visualization taught by Prof. Jeffrey Heer

• Organized the course website and administrative issues.
• Held office hours to help students with their projects.
• Led workshops on the use of Protovis and Flare visualization toolkits.
• Assisted Prof. Heer with grading student work.

Cantor Fitzgerald New York, NY
Intern Software Developer

• Worked as part of the High Frequency Trading team.
• Collaborated with analysts to create a real-time market visualization platform.
• Dealt with streaming and visualizing massive (order or 1TB / day) amounts of data.

The Big Picture London, UK
Freelance Programmer and UI Designer

• Collaborated with an interface artist to design and implement an online organizer called ‘The Big Picture’.
• Dealt with all stages the development: drafting specifications, coding and debugging, marketing and support
• Wrote robust front-end code in ActionScript3, MXML and JavaScript.
• Created a scalable PHP backend to support a 100 fold increase in users.
• Maintained and optimized the MySQL database.
• Transferred thebigpic.org from one hosting service provider to another with less than 1 minute of downtime.

Ensoft Limited Harpenden, UK
Contractor for Cisco Systems

• Implemented features in the operating system of Cisco’s line of high capacity backbone routers.
• Wrote code in C that adhered to very tight Cisco specifications.
• Created a visual tool for finding and eliminating cyclic package dependencies using Perl.

Frontier Developments Cambridge, UK
Intern Software Developer

• Worked as a part of the rendering team on the upcoming next-gen title “The Outsider”.
• Collaborated with artists and designers on drafting game specifications.
• Implemented high performance graphics code in C++ and HLSL.
• Constructed a Ruby utility to allow developers to create game editing interfaces using direct manipulation; this utility was adopted throughout the team saving hours of developer time.

D3: Data-Driven Documents Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'11) [26% Acceptance Rate]

A Tour through the Visualization Zoo Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky
ACM Queue

Strata 2013, Santa Clara CA

Harvard University, Cambridge MA

Stanford University, Stanford CA

UC Irvine, Irvine CA

UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA

Swissnix, San Francisco CA

Stanford University, Stanford CA

IEEE VisWeek 2010, Salt Lake City UT

Awarded a scholarship for first class results in first year university examinations (Moderations) at Oxford

Awarded five ‘collection’ prizes for first class results in college examinations at Oxford

Awarded three gold certificates for partaking in UK Senior Mathematics Challenge

CoffeeScript, JavaScript, C, C++, ActionScript3, PHP, SQL, Ruby, Haskell

HTML5, CSS3, Node.js, RESTful APIs, MySQL, Git

D3, jQuery, DVL, SASS/Compass, Protovis, Flare

D3, Protovis, DVL

Fluent in English, Modern Hebrew, and Russian