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myExperiment involvement |
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Sat, 19 May 2007 20:47:45 -0700 |
Hello,
I'm a masters student in computer science at the University of
British Columbia. I'm being co-supervised by Mark Wilkinson and
Rachel Pottinger. My masters essay project is currently focused on
providing automated assistance to when adding services to a workflow.
As such, I've been perusing the work done by myGrid on
myExperiment.org, and I am extremely interested in getting involved
in its development, if this is possible. I have an undergraduate
degree in bioinformatics from the University of Waterloo (Ontario,
Canada) and I have had many software development internship. My most
recent work experience was an 8-month long stint at Google, where I
wrote two project prototypes that were later extended into full
applications, and headed a team of 5 full-time engineers in migrating
a research prototype to a production system.
One of my specialties is rapid prototyping with an emphasis on
writing code that is still comprehensible when the prototype is
complete. This might be useful at the stage of development that you
are in with myexperiment.org.
If there is a chunk of functionality that you would like to see
implemented for whatever purpose, I would be enthusiastically take it
on. I notice that you folks are leaning towards Rails for your
implementation -- I am partial to Django (Python), but I've always
wanted to pick up Rails, and I'd be excited to work with this
technology. I additionally have a great deal in C++, Java, and Perl,
and I have dabbled in OCaml.
If you are interested, you can check out samples of my work on my
website:
http://www.mikedebo.ca/projects
Unfortunately my CV is horribly out of date, but I hope to rectify
that soon.
Additionally, my supervisors' homepages can be found here:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rap/
http://www.icapture.ubc.ca/who/who_mark_wilkinson.shtml
(I'm sure you already know Mark Wilkinson, but I've included the link
anyways.)
Thanks for your time,
-Mike
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