Name variants:
Noaah Gift,
Noa Gift
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Head Of Web
SF
I ran Web Engineering and hired 13 developers additional developers in approximately one year, while I rebuilt the organization. My main responsibilities included:
Managing between ~25 dev...
May 2012 — Jul 2013
Founder/CTO
San Francisco
Co-founder of a LLC, created by several UC Davis MBA graduates, that writes Mac OS X software for the Mac OS X app store. Personally wrote all of the application code for product in Cocoa. ...
2011 — Sep 2012
Director of Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area
Managed all aspects of engineering including: operations, software, recruiting, and human resources from series B to series C funding.
10 reports within 3 teams including remote employees ...
Jul 2011 — May 2012
Founder, CTO, CEO, and GM
Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Zealand, San Francisco
Founded consulting & software company where I worked both full-time and part-time over the years. Some of the projects I have done are below:
Large Social Networking Django/JQuery 1.0 ...
Jan 1998 — Jan 2012
Associate Director Engineering
Manage diverse dev team, including remote contractor.
Technology Stack: RabbitMQ, Splunk, C#, F#, Python, Erlang, PowerShell, Ruby, New Relic, Hadoop
Custom Web Analytics Development for...
May 2010 — Jul 2011
Senior Technical Director
Dealt with scary concurrency problems.
Led a team of developers architecting multi-data center asset management system.
Used Data Mining to solve legacy architectural problems that jeopar...
Jul 2009 — May 2010
Senior Shots Technical Director
PyQt and Python development on James Cameron's Avatar film.
Replaced a legacy code publishing system developed in 1 year, in 2 days (48 hours straight coding) from scratch.
Wrote a multi-...
Oct 2008 — Jun 2009
Software Engineer
Software Engineer doing Python programming for Data Center Management Application.
Wrote a massively multi-threaded SNMP autodiscovery engine in Python.
R&D on Solaris LDOM 1.0 tech...
Mar 2007 — Apr 2008
Production Engineer
Developer/Video FX Engineer/Infrastructure Engineering
Jan 2006 — Mar 2007
Lead Editorial Systems Engineer (Editorial Architect)
Managed Avid Editorial engineering for 3 feature Films and FX.
Wrote automated software distribution system.
Helped create first 3D feature animated film pipeline for Sony Pictures Animat...
Mar 2005 — Jan 2006
Avid Engineer
Video Engineer/Avid Engineer/Systems Administrator
Wrote automated software distribution system
Worked on first 3D feature animated film produced by Disney..not Pixar (Chicken Little)
May 2004 — Mar 2005
Lead/Senior Avid Engineer
Architected large-scale fibre channel Avid/Editorial solutions.
Provided 24/7 engineering support to Television Shows.
Sep 2003 — May 2004
Lead SysAdmin Administration Department
Systems Administration for Caltech Administration Department
Expert OS X Desktop Support for Noble Prize winning President, Dr. Baltimore.
Attended graduate school full-time while working...
Aug 2000 — Aug 2003
Engineering Supervisor
Editing/Sound/Camera/Engineering.
Managed Television Truck Crew and contract hires.
Family business
1987 — 1999
Freelance Network Television Editor/Television Engineer
Freelance Editor for ABC Network News in Los Angeles.
Edited content for nationwide broadcast
Patched live satellite network feeds.
Television Engineering tasks: Video Engineering, Audi...
Jun 1994 — Aug 1994
Education
2001 — 2003
1993 — 1996
2002 — 2003
2006 — 2006
1992 — 1993
1986 — 1992
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IT Professional
Computer Software Professional
Technology Manager
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Python
Cocoa
Erlang
F#
C#
PowerShell
Linux
Windows
SQL
Java
Ruby
PHP
Z-Shell
R
Unix
Mac OS X
Objective-C
.NET
Statistics
Microsoft Excel
Mathematical modeling
Hadoop
MongoDB
OS X
Minitab
jQuery
NoSQL