Sam Raymer
Software Engineer
Education
University of Washington
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Embedded Systems focus
Graduated June 2010
Skills
Languages and Programming
Java,
C,
C++,
Perl,
Python,
XUnit,
Hadoop,
Matlab,
JavaScript,
jQuery,
PHP,
JSP,
Google Web Toolkit,
AJAX,
XML,
JSON,
SQL,
Verilog,
assembly
Coursework
Programming in Java,
Data Structures,
Algorithms,
AI,
Digital Design,
Microprocessor Systems,
Computer Oragnization,
Technical Communication,
Multivariable Calculus,
Matrix Algebra,
Statistics
Systems and Software
Linux and Windows administration,
SQL Server,
MySQL,
Apache,
Tomcat,
JUnit,
Subversion,
Git
Work Experience
Amazon Web Services
Software Development Engineer
(February 2012 - Present)
Impinj
Software Engineer
(January 2011 - October 2011)
- Developed new XUnit-based testing for RFID reader platform firmware using Maven and Perl
- Created internal tools in Perl and SQL
- See http://www.impinj.com
The RFID Ecosystem Project
Undergraduate Research Assistant
(June 2008 - June 2010)
- Worked with Professor Magdalena Balazinska and Professor Gaetano Borriello
- Built applications and infrastructure for context-aware computing using a building-scale RFID system
- Extensive benchmarking of RFID tags, readers and other equipment
- Developed privacy-sensitive geolocation enabled micro-blogging application (Firefox/Twitter plug-in)
- Developed Facebook game that allows friends to compete and compare activities (as extracted from RFID)
- Rapid prototyping of context-aware and real-time web 2.0 applications using Google Web Toolkit
- See http://rfid.cs.washington.edu/
Rainy Dawg Internet Radio
Technical Manager
(October 2007 - June 2010)
- Managed a Linux domain that serves web pages, encodes and streams media and provides security
- Managed a Windows domain for employees using Samba
- Extensive maintenance and troubleshooting of studio equipment
- Maintained and improved intranet communication and management tools in PHP
- See http://www.rainydawg.org/
Publications
Rfidder: A Friend Finder for an RFID World
.
G. Cole, A. Sun, E. Welbourne, S. Raymer
Poster presented at UW CSE Industrial Affiliates, Oct, 2008.
Building the Internet of Things Using RFID:
The RFID Ecosystem Experience
.
E. Welbourne, L. Battle, G. Cole, K. Gould, K. Rector, S. Raymer, M. Balazinska, G. Boriello
Article for IEEE Internet Computing, May/June 2009.