Dino Morelli

| 919-413-3112 | github

Experienced software engineer specializing in functional programming with Haskell and Scala. Strong background and experience in back-end data processing, servers and building command-line tools.

Skills

• Languages: Haskell, Scala, Java, Python, Perl
• Web: REST, Servant, Yesod, happstack, LetsEncrypt
• Database: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sphinx search
• Cloud: AWS, Azure, Ansible, Docker
• Linux/UNIX: Arch, Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, CentOS, Solaris
• Miscellaneous: Apache, nginx, Android, epub

Experience

HERE Technologies (Chicago, IL, USA)

2019 Jun to present - Software Engineer (contract)

Location data transformation work using the HERE Tech Open Location Platform

• Wrote Protocol Buffer schemas and processed them into Scala
• Wrote Scala software to manipulate these data structures
• Ran location data transformations on the Spark-based OLP system
• Functional programming techniques and designs

Honu Apps LLC (Raleigh, NC, USA)

2014 Nov to present - Co-founder, Software Engineer

Software development consulting services

• Kitchen Snitch restaurant health inspection app. Back-end
  data-acquisition and REST server made with Haskell, MongoDB, Google Maps, Geocoding and Places APIs, AWS
• DMSS dead-man's switch system for securely distributing
  confidential documents in the event of emergency. Haskell
• SigMet Solutions weather forecast HPC cluster automation and web
  development. Haskell
• SpectraHex Android puzzle game. Written in highly-functional
  Scala. Source

Panasonic Weather Solutions (Morrisville, NC, USA)

2011 Mar to 2018 Feb - Senior Software Engineer

Producing weather forecast products on high-performance computing
clusters

• Haskell and Scala used extensively to parallelize weather forecasting processes on a high-performance computing cluster.
• Scala REST server work in support of various products.
• All system design features functional programming techniques

Burlington Aviation Technology School (Burlington, VT, USA)

2009 Aug to 2011 Jun - Software Engineer (contract)

Custom web-based education solutions for Avionics students

• Designed and built the GROLPrep website, a study tool and test
  simulator for the FCC GROL and Radar Endorsement exams
• Haskell, happstack, SQLite. Source
• Try GROLPrep yourself

AT&T Network Security (Morrisville, NC, USA)

2007 Oct to 2009 Jun - Software Engineer (contract)

Member of the Network Security group responding to spam and copyright violation complaints

• Architect and lead developer on a copyright infringement
  notification system written in Haskell
• Wrote custom email APIs and extensive Perl unit test automation
  for an existing complaint processing system
• Haskell, Perl, MySQL, XML, email parsing and generation,
  UNIX daemons, concurrency, process control

McClatchy Interactive (Raleigh, NC, USA)

2007 May to 2007 Sep - Software Engineer (contract)

Newspaper industry, web presence. Perl, Haskell programming

• Perl programming on a variety of projects. Enhancement of existing
  APIs and new design and implementation work.
• Worked on REST services with Haskell and happs
• Perl, Haskell, happs, MySQL, HTML, RedHat, Debian

Qualcomm (Cary, NC, USA)

2006 Jul to 2006 Dec - Senior Software Engineer (contract)

Perl programming in Linux and UNIX environments

• Reading microchip manufacturing data from Microsoft Excel documents
  with Perl. Transforming data into other formats, one being Tcl
  scripts.
• Perl, RedHat, Solaris

Network Appliance (RTP, NC, USA)

2005 Dec to 2006 May - Tools and Automation Engineer (contract)

SnapManager for Oracle group. Perl programming in Linux and
UNIX environments

• Designed and implemented an automated testing framework with
  Perl for our products
• Perl, Oracle, HTML, RedHat, Debian

Open source software development

I have been a contributor to open-source projects, mostly Haskell:
xmobar, cabal-install, darcs, TagSoup.

I created and maintain many open-source projects including: epub-tools, epub-metadata, hsinstall, uacpid, hscrtmpl, photoname. Over 50k lines of code in Haskell alone.
These projects are hosted and documented in detail on github.

I am experienced in epub creation and maintain the epub edition of
"(Nothing But) Flowers" by John G. McDaid, a Creative Commons
licensed work of fiction.

Education

Functional Programming Principles in Scala
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne via Coursera

Statistics 1
Princeton University via Coursera

2019-07-18