Experience
Self Employed, Unusual Studio, January 2019 - Present
- Consulting with clients to hear and hone their needs and ideas
- Offering my expertise to suggest minimum-viable solutions
- Building functional implementations with clients in one-on-one sessions
- Teaching the underlying tech skills necessary for independent development
Chief Inventor, Quadration, May 2017 - November 2018
- Designed antifragile time-lock encryption system architecture
- Implemented encryption and decryption utilities using Node.JS
- Used C for cryographic quadrator processing 2048-bit integers at <100MB/s
- Sourced minimal system with high-single-thread-performance for iteration
Open Profilogical Web Survey
- Profiled identity and access management systems of hundreds of websites
- Assessed weaknesses and shortcomings in user-facing form behavior
- Authored JSON schema with YAML transpilation for concise description
- Established continuous integration pipeline using CircleCI
Plushu
- Developed Heroku-compatible 12-factor application deployment system
- Used GitHub Issues for extensive task management and design
- Used waffle.io for Kanban-style task overview across repositories
- Curated a style guide dictating how to avoid edge cases in Bash scripts
Head of Product, JetWarp, January 2016 - July 2016
- Built WebVR app for interactive walkthroughs using spherical panoramas
- Designed procedure for capturing whole buildings quickly and thoroughly
- Worked with marketing and sales to convey product's selling points
CTO, Hutpass, December 2013 - December 2015
- Developed simple HTTPS-as-a-service reverse proxy
- Offered last-mile encryption solution for early-stage websites
VideoRay, September 2015
- Designed SVG-based frontend for piloting software
- Worked with R&D to match interface to users' core needs
Plexipixel, August 2013
- Reviewed flow and layout of e-commerce site
- Architected HTML structure of pages and elements
Concurix, November 2013
- Streamlined product presentation and messaging
- Refactored Node.js code structure
Conference Webmaster, Underwater Intervention, November 2011 - January 2012
- Designed minimalist site for 2012 conference presentations
- Worked with 100 presenters to individually integrate each presentation's content into site
- Created HTML generators for page templates using Lua
- Links:
- Front-end mirror: http://nondynamic.com/mirror/ui2012/schedule.html
- Generator code: https://github.com/stuartpb/u20n-12
Intern, Bentley Systems, Inc., March 2011 - June 2011
- Developed source-control-to-bug-tracking integration systems
- from Mercurial and CVS, to VersionOne and in-house bug tracker
- written in Python, using CGI to POST to RESTful APIs with commit hooks
- Maintained ASP.NET devteam-management portal software
On-Call Tester, VMC Consulting, Inc., 2007 - 2010
- Followed test cases and regiments
- Wrote test cases for newly-discovered bugs
Portfolio
- Articles for humor site Cracked.com (contains coarse language):
- Various writings on GitHub: https://github.com/stuartpb/collected-writings
- Lean Notes, a series of notes on building out projects
- PlugMap, a map of publicly-accessible power outlets: https://plugmap.com/
- StepDub, a PhoneGap app for playing sounds with your footsteps (popular with cosplayers)
- A Twilio app for automating my apartment's admission system: https://github.com/stuartpb/mellonine
- s/keyboard/leopard/g, the browser extension described in https://xkcd.com/1031/
- Ambitious works in progress: https://github.com/stuartpb/help-wanted
- Other miscellanous GitHub projects: https://github.com/stuartpb
- Over 6,500 reputation on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/34799/stuart-p-bentley
Skills
Education
- Real Time Interactive Simulation, DigiPen Institute of Technology 2007 - 2009
- Startup Incubation, Founder Institute December 2, 2013 - April 7, 2014