Profile

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Name:
Daniel O’Brien
Background:
B.Sc. Computer Science, Sparkroom QA Analyst, former Google Software Engineer
Location:
Toronto, Canada
Email:
dan@dobs.org
Website:
dobs.org (or dobs.ca)
Facebook:
dobs.ca
Twitter:
dobs
LinkedIn:
dobsdotorg
Picasa:
danielobrien

About Me

Originally from Toronto, Canada, I joined Google Inc. in 2004 and graduated from Ryerson University in 2005, after which I moved down to Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters. Since leaving Google in 2009 I’ve returned to Canada to pursue personal projects and charitable volunteer work.

While at Google I worked on such projects as AdWords (primarily the AdWords API), Google Code (including project hosting) and App Engine. My on-the-job experience includes includes such languages as Python, Java, C++, PHP, and Ruby; SOAP, REST, and JSON APIs and Protocols; and a broad range of toolsets and technology, from DBMS systems (Postgresql, MySQL), VCS (Git, Hg, Subversion), and platforms (Linux, OS X, Windows).

Currently I work for Sparkroom, a leads analytics company based out of Toronto, as a QA Analyst.

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Interests

Languages

  • Arduino
  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Objective C
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Processing
  • Prolog
  • Python
  • REST
  • Ruby
  • Scala
  • SOAP
  • SQL
  • UML
  • Visual Basic
  • XHTML
  • XML

Frameworks and Applications

  • Access
  • Ant
  • Apache HTTPD
  • App Engine
  • Coreutils
  • Eclipse
  • Emacs
  • IBM DB2
  • IntelliJ IDEA
  • Maven
  • MySQL
  • Postgres
  • Sqllite
  • TestNG
  • VIM
  • Visual Studio
  • Visio
  • Xcode

Platforms

  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu)
  • Mac OS X
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Solaris

Computer Science

  • Accessibility
  • API Design
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Calculus
  • Computer Architecture Design
  • Database Systems
  • Design Patterns
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Frequentist Statistics
  • Functional Programming
  • Information Architecture
  • HCI
  • Linear Algebra
  • Network Systems
  • Number Theory
  • Object Oriented Programming

Coming Soon

This site was relaunched as a simple profile page on January 19th, 2009, as an alternative to a more ambitious blog and projects site. Blog and project links are still in the works, and should show up over the next few weeks and months.