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<li>Wrote code and tools to internationalize and localize the entire website, including automatic translation of hotel reviews via translation APIs.</li>
<li>Implemented many web-based internal tools, including a photo album editor and a workflow system to help salespeople schedule photoshoots at hundreds of hotels per month.</li>
<li>Helped design and implement a <a href="http://tech.oyster.com/when-building-your-own-cms-is-the-right-choice/">custom content management system</a> that enabled us to publish hotel reviews realtime. The CMS is also used to write content roundups, slideshows, and blog articles, which increased revenue and provided a more integrated user experience.</li>
<li>Implemented a data analytics pipeline using <a href="http://snowplowanalytics.com/">Snowplow</a>, <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/">Amazon Redshift</a>, and <a href="http://www.looker.com/">Looker</a>. The system stores and can query almost 1B rows in a few seconds.</li>
<li>Implemented a data analytics pipeline using Snowplow Analytics, Amazon Redshift, and Looker. The system stores and can query about one billion rows in a few seconds.</li>
<li>Co-developed Oyster.com’s photo-rich <a href='http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oyster.com-hotel-reviews-photos/id499564162'>iPad app</a>, including the app’s Objective-C codebase and its API backend.</li>
<li>Wrote Python and JavaScript libraries to display real-time pricing via TripAdvisor’s hotel pricing API, resulting in a sizeable revenue increase.</li>
<li>Implemented the backend for Oyster Shots, a tag-based photo search engine for 1M+ hotel photos. This was turned off in 2014 for business reasons, but you can <a href='http://tech.oyster.com/how-our-photo-search-engine-really-works/'>read more here.</a></li>
<li>Implemented the backend for Oyster Shots, a tag-based photo search engine for over a million hotel photos. This was turned off in 2014 for business reasons, but you can <a href='http://tech.oyster.com/how-our-photo-search-engine-really-works/'>read more here.</a></li>
<li>Wrote much of the site’s user account and hotel booking system (turned off in 2011 for business reasons), including secure credit card and payment handling.</li>
<li>Co-wrote heavily parallelized software to resize and watermark millions of images in many different sizes using Amazon EC2.</li>
<li>Supervised and administrated the datacenter’s server and database configuration. Automated server setup and code deployments using IT automation tools such as <a href="http://www.ansible.com/">Ansible</a>.</li>
<li>Supervised and administrated the datacenter’s server and database configuration. Automated server setup and code deployments using IT automation tools such as Ansible (<a href="http://tech.oyster.com/using-ansible-to-restore-developer-sanity/">read more here</a>).</li>
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<p class='gap'><a href='http://brush.co.nz/'><b>Brush Technology</b></a> &ndash;
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