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Michael Baer (650) 430-1445 Summary Education Professional experience ? Extensive RD experience in algorithms, search, distributed systems, multimedia, data compression, and communications ? Programming and optimization (C/C++, assembly, Python, etc.) ? Publication record in compression, algorithms, and tree structures ? Meticulousness in research, programming, and documentation STANFORD UNIVERSITY Electrical Engineering (Information Theory), Ph.D. ? Dissertation: Coding for General Penalties (data compression). ? Advisor: Thomas Cover. Stanford Graduate Fellowship. GPA: 3.84 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), B.S. ? EECS Honors program involving MIMO communications research. ? Highest honors. ΦΒΚ. Microsoft Technical Scholarship. GPA: 3.94 A9.com (Amazon) Palo Alto, CA 2014- Software Development Engineer ? Augmenting and maintaining the Python-based control plane for AWS-based A product search query, e.g., adding features and migrating query fleet to new systems. ? Adapting and extending control plane to add AWS-based indexing. ? Altering connectivity of hosts to improve scalability. ? Mentoring interns and coworkers, technically and as president, A9 Toastmasters. ? Python, C++. Vista Research Monterey, CA 2010-2014 Staff Scientist ? Researched for, developed, and maintained several communicationoriented distributed computing signal processing software products. ? Developed several algorithms increasing software effectiveness. ? Accelerated low-level code underlying products (e.g., 40x). ? Took initiative in spearheading cleaner code via refactoring, with extensive inline and online documentation. ? Python, C++, PHP, JavaScript, Fortran. Profiling (Intel VTune, Valgrind), signal processing (Intel MKL), distributed computing (SLURM, RPC), SQL (various), UI (QT), VMware San Francisco, CA 2008-2010 Member of Technical Staff ? Coded video data processing in remote desktop product ? Ported open source and proprietary p