Mark Milburn

I'm currently working at a startup focused on automating aspects of low-income housing administration including building automation and "big data" tooling for Social Workers.

After departing my previous role, I explored the feasibility of developing a middleware product aimed at facilitating collaborative remote editing.

Migrated ask.com to GCP.
Maintained and extended the Spring (Java) application that ran ask.com.
Developed a Python tool that automatically refactored over 2500 drools rules.
Investigated and reverse-engineered a malicious browser extension that was hijacking search traffic.
Introduced team members to functional programming concepts.

Implemented search suggestions and related searches for ask.com using solr and Hadoop.
Wrote Pig scripts to do query language classification.
Developed tools for automated browser testing of ask.com in Java using BrowserMob Proxy, Selenium, and Saucelabs.
Mentored team members on software design principles and effective use of git.

Wrote a Java library to handle unicode case-folding and normalization for Hadoop jobs.
Wrote a Perl script that used edit distance to map an internal product taxonomy to a product taxonomy used by a partner.

Maintained and extended a bespoke distributed job management system (written in Perl) for ingesting product data feeds.
Proposed a design for handling millions of small images using a key-value store that was later implemented (Berkeley DB).

Decompiled Crescendo's AppBeat DC configuration and monitoring application (JAR file) to enumerate all SNMP OIDs and enable monitoring through Nagios.
Wrote a MySQL UDF in C that used /dev/rand to create salt for user password entries.
Wrote a Perl script that allowed Ops to edit Partimage files instead of having to completely re-image a server.