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Resumé

J Maunsell • they/them/theirs • Brooklyn, NY

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Goals

  • Design robust backend architecture that enables empathetic user workflows
  • Build software for an enterprise that helps people connect with and understand each other

Skills

  • Fluent in Java, Go, Python, and Scala; familiarity with C and C++
  • Fluent in French
  • Spark, Kubernetes, YARN, Linux, macOS
  • Software deployment within a microservice architecture
  • Compilers and code execution infrastructure
  • Systems design including distributed networks and operating systems
  • Building approachable user workflows with clean visual design

Industry Experience

Datadog

Software Engineer II / July 2022 - present

Dashboards Backend

Working in Python on product features and infrastructure for Datadog's core product, dashboards. Projects include implementation of a custom reporting feature for delivering snapshotted summaries of dashboards and other Datadog products.

Palantir Technologies

Software Engineer / Sept. 2019 – May 2022

Production Infrastructure

Worked (Oct. 2021-May 2022) in the Production Infrastructure group.

  • Wrote software to deploy software artifacts to air-gapped networks
  • Wrote software to orchestrate software deployment to Kubernetes clusters under security constraints

Foundry Code Workbooks

Worked (Sept. 2019-Oct. 2021) in the Foundry Analytics group on a coding environment for data scientists. Projects included:

  • Optimizing the product’s distributed Spark execution framework
  • Implementing Git-style merge functions on software objects
  • Expanding support for native R object types
  • Integrating with an adjacent programming environment to record software environment history

Software Engineering Intern / June-Aug. 2018 Interned on the Build Infrastructure team for the Gotham platform.

  • Refactored a build system for hundreds of Java plugins
  • As a Hack Week project, wrote a simpler replacement plugin build system that is still in use today

Nutanix Inc.

Software Engineering Intern / June-Aug. 2017

  • Designed and implemented a Python library for visually comparing time series data across bundles of low-level performance statistics
  • Supplemented library with a command-line tool for generating sets of plots

Nebulous Labs Inc.

Software Engineering Intern / May-Aug. 2016

  • Expanded test coverage for the core modules, API and command-line tool of a blockchain-based distributed cloud storage platform
  • Built and operated a Linux host server to monitor platform performance

Education

Massachusetts Insitute of Technology

B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering / Class of 2019 Graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (GPA 4.8/5.0) with a concentration in French.

  • Took graduate courses on computer systems engineering:
    • Built a Linux-style operating system in C from a thin skeleton
    • Wrote a Raft distributed key-value store in Go from the ground up
    • Designed and built a Bluetooth mesh network iOS messaging app using Swift
  • Focused on compiler design, including:
    • Led a team to build and optimize a C-style compiler from scratch in Scala for a project class
    • Designed a cross-compiler from an actor-based Scala derivative to C, as part of a resource project with the MIT Programming Languages group
  • Pursued political science from an analytical perspective, with specific interests in technology policy and in the role of race in crime politics
  • Elected president (Sept. 2016-Sept. 2017) of a dormitory under transition, working closely with administration to advocate for a community largely comprised of students from underrepresented groups
  • Elected Treasurer of the MIT Bitcoin Club (Sept. 2016-May 2017), collaborating with the MIT Digital Currency Initiative

Service

Interviewer Interviewed 34 candidates for the system decomposition facet for the Palantir Foundry group (Feb.-Oct. 2021).

  • Trained two engineers to conduct interviews
  • Scoped potential DEI improvements that helped form the basis for a working group

Mentor Examples of mentoring include:

  • Mentored an intern with limited industry experience but strong capacity for growth (June-Sept 2021):

“Shoutout James for being the best mentor-- extremely supportive, always patient, and full of wisdom! I seriously learned so much from him this summer and had a blast working together.”

  • Mentored a coworker in a non-software engineering role with strong engineering experience to join the engineering team (Jul. 2021-Mar. 2022)
  • Mentored a new hire with limited technical background, working with them to build problem-solving skills and showcase their strengths (Jan.-Mar. 2022)
  • Ramped up a new hire via intensive pair-programming (Nov. 2020-Feb. 2021)

Affinity Group Coordinator Served (July 2021-May 2022) as global coordinator of the Palantir transgender affinity group and New York coordinator of the Palantir LGBTQIA+ affinity group. Responsibilities were self-driven and included:

  • Direct mentorship of affinity group members, particularly those undergoing gender transition
  • Collaboration with the DEI group to ensure affinity group members feel safe and supported
  • Organization of community events, including an intersectional speaker series