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Russell Feathers

Russell Feathers

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Software Engineer @ TikTok

  • Education

    • CodePath

      2022 - 2022
      Advanced Software Engineering

    • Cornell University

      2007 - 2011
      Bachelor's Degree Civil Engineering

    • Oregon State University

      2020 - 2023
      2nd Bachelors Degree Computer Science

      ๐Ž๐’๐” ๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ž: ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ž๐ฌโ€ขDelivered multi-process application to optimize trading strategies to beat buy and hold on 4+ algorithmsโ€ขCollaborated with mentor and peers to write software specs to optimize trading algorithms w/ Pymoo multi-objective optimization and backtesting.py to achieve 2.5x greater returns than buy and holdโ€ขDeployed to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, with Flask Rest API toโ€ฆ Show more ๐Ž๐’๐” ๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ž: ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ž๐ฌโ€ขDelivered multi-process application to optimize trading strategies to beat buy and hold on 4+ algorithmsโ€ขCollaborated with mentor and peers to write software specs to optimize trading algorithms w/ Pymoo multi-objective optimization and backtesting.py to achieve 2.5x greater returns than buy and holdโ€ขDeployed to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, with Flask Rest API to store trading optimizations on MongoDB and plot results via Plotly Library w/ JS/HTML/CSS front-end๐™-๐†๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ - ๐๐ž๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐™๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญe (๐ณ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ.๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ.๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ)โ€ขBuilt a React.js microservice where users add, predict, and view property outcomes, integrated with Zillow RapidAPI through a Node.js REST API and data stored in Postgres hosted on Railway and Vercel CDN and serverless lambda functions Show less

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

      2011 - 2012
      Master's Degree Structural Engineering

  • Experience

    • Cornell University

      Aug 2010 - Dec 2010
      Teaching Assistant

      TA for Design and Analysis of Concrete Structures I

    • DeSimone Consulting Engineers

      Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
      Intern

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

      Jan 2012 - May 2012
      Graduate Teaching Assistant

      TA for Design and Analysis of Steel Structures I

    • Gilsanz Murray Steficek

      Sept 2012 - Apr 2015

      • Senior Structural Engineer

        Dec 2014 - Apr 2015

      • Structural Engineer

        Sept 2012 - Dec 2014

    • Silman

      May 2015 - Aug 2021

      โ€ขProject manager on high-rise residential, commercial fit outs, university, and library projects in and outside NYC areaโ€ขDelivered engineering specs on cross-functional teams with a dozen stakeholders to meet design, while minimizing cost and risk on multi-million dollar construction contracts in NYCโ€ขDirected 5 on-going engineering projects and led 10 engineers on technical designs of feature projectsโ€ขEnhanced structure design capabilities through CSi API endpoints in Python script to optimize material quantities by ~30 % and reduce delivery time from days to 10 minutesHighlighted projects include:โ€ข40-story retail, office, and residential building in Brooklyn, NYโ€ข25-story retail, and residential building in Manhattan, NYโ€ข4-story, 140,000 SF museum on site of existing museum in Princeton, NJโ€ข7- story, 100,000 SF charter school in Bronx, NY Show less

      • Senior Engineer, Project Manager

        Jan 2019 - Aug 2021

      • Project Engineer

        Jul 2016 - Dec 2018

      • Engineer

        May 2015 - Jul 2016

    • CORE studio at Thornton Tomasetti

      Aug 2021 - Feb 2024
      Senior Applications Developer

      * Leveraged engineering domain expertise with 5+ departments to design web and desktop C#/ .NET object-oriented applications in an Agile development environment* Architected C# web services application with Trimble API and custom .NET libraries after engaging 10+ users to automate 3-D design and modeling for multi-million dollar contracts, streamlining a 3-day task to ~3 mins* Optimized download and categorization of 50,000+ PM files by implementing JWT-authenticated requests to Procore API and using SQLite to store meta-data, leading to eng labor savings of ~300k/ yr* Directed 3 juniors on enhancing UI/UX of software API tool to boost user engagement analytics by 50% through establishing testing requirements, sprint goals, conducting user stories, and feedback loops* Deployed 10+ ASP.Net Core Rest API back-end to Azure App Service with JWT authentication and set up GitHub Actions CI/CD* Designed Wpf front-end dashboard with 100+ customizable input standards and 1,000+ calculation data points stored in database that reduced defective modeling* Co-developed 10,000+ Continuous Integration automated tests in test-driven development with product managers and users to minimize production code debugging* Enhanced C# software speed performance by 40% with multi-threading, locking, and semaphores* Strengthened graph data structure algorithms infrastructure to reduce ~95% floor framing design from a multi-day task to under 5 seconds Show less

    • TikTok

      Mar 2024 - now
      Software Engineer

      Ads Infrastructure - Machine Learning Data Platform

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • P.E. in California

      NCEES
      Jun 2014