Brian Skarda
I’m a Software Engineer.
I’m an avid rock climber, mountain biker, and general outdoor fanatic.
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Projects
View my personal projects, coursework, config files
Bargainburg
My capstone project for Software Engineering At Virginia Tech.
I was the team lead for backend development. The site is no longer hosted
but the sourcecode for the entire project is up on my GitHub page.
Resume
Education
B.S., Computer Science (Minor in Mathematics)
Virginia Tech, College of Engineering, Class of 2014
Work Experience
Implementation Engineer, Opower, Arlington Va July 2014 to Present
Software Technology Intern, Cvent Corp., McLean Va - Summer 2013
- Researched, designed, and built an ETL Process using Java, Python, and C# between SQL Server and MemSQL or MySQL. Replaced the logging infrastructure in the entire codebase with a custom forked log4net implementation. Worked on forking the Capistrano project in order to deploy to Windows machines.
Engineering Intern, Applied Physical Sciences Corp., Ballston VA - Summer 2012
- Developed software for multiple engineering projects, including creating production code
using the Google Protocol Buffers, ZeroMQ, and OpenCV frameworks. All programs were either written in C, C++ or Matlab.
Skills
Operating Systems
Linux (Command Line & GUI), Windows 7, OS X
Languages
Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, Visual Basic, Matlab
Git, Android Programming, MVC, FreeNAS, Data Analytics, Networking, Ruby on Rails, Database and SQL, Backend Web Services and REST
Virginia Tech Rock Climbing Club 2010 - Present
- President (2013-2014) and Trip Leader
- Vice President (2012-2013)
- Organized events for hundreds of people and introductory climbing trips
Association for Computing Machinery 2009 - Present
Virginia Tech Cyber Security Club 2012 - Present