Jeremy Roman

Education

• University of Waterloo
  Honours Computer Science, co-op
  September 2009 – April 2014
  • Bachelor of Computer Science
  • Minor in Combinatorics and Optimization, Minor in Physics
  • Graduated with distinction – Dean's Honours List
  • Awarded the Governor General's Silver Academic Medal
  • 97% cumulative average, 98% math faculty average, 99% CS major average

Experience

• Google
  Software Engineer
  May 2014 – present
  • Working on graphics and rendering performance in Blink, the rendering engine of Google Chrome.
• Google
  Software Engineering Intern
  January 2013 – August 2013
  • Earned co-op rating of "Outstanding" for work on BrailleBack accessibility service for Android.
  • Earned co-op rating of "Excellent" for work on Blink rendering engine (part of the Chromium project) in rendering and graphics stacks.
• Google
  Software Engineering Intern
  May 2012 – August 2012
  • Developed Mobile Gmail client features in JavaScript and Objective-C.
  • Added frontend server code to the web application server to support client code.
  • Earned co-op rating of "Outstanding."
• Google
  Software Engineering Intern
  September 2011 – December 2011
  • Developed features for Google Shopper for iOS and Android.
  • Developed frontend server code to support clients, coordinating with an upstream team in order to do so.
  • Earned co-op rating of "Outstanding."
• Demeure
  Co-op Student, Dev Team
  January 2011 – April 2011
  • Worked on a web application implemented in Ruby on Rails running on Amazon Web Services (including S3 and EC2).
  • Participated in the agile style of software development.
  • Earned co-op rating of "Outstanding."
• Sun Life Financial
  Summer Student
  May 2010 – September 2010
  • Worked to ensure application compatibility during an upcoming deployment of Windows 7 to over 15,000 end users.
  • Built software packages for Windows XP and Windows 7 for deployment via Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007.

Skills

• Technical Skills
  • Significant experience in Ruby (especially the Rails framework), HTML and related technologies, Java, C, C++ and Objective-C
  • Familiar with PHP, Python, C# and PLT Scheme/Racket
  • Proficient with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (especially Debian and Ubuntu)
  • Development experience using web services including Amazon S3, EC2 and SQS
• Transferrable Skills
  Initiative:
  • At Google, manager commented on "[handling] additional tasks on his own initiative" and "[performing] as a full time engineer".
  • At Google, supervisor commented on "zeal and enthusiasm to work which is hard to find and makes his work that much better."
  • At Google, was praised for "[taking] on cleaning up the existing Shopper codebase … contributing to overall code health."
  • At Demeure, was praised by supervisor for "actively providing his own thoughts and opinions on design, implementation and priorities … He effectively advocated for his positions".
  • At Sun Life Financial, created tools to streamline package testing and deployment workflow.
  
  Communication:
  • In the Computer Science Club, documented existing and new systems and software, categorized existing documentation, and consistently responded promptly to requests from members.
  • At Sun Life Financial, wrote packaging standards recommendations to prepare for Windows 7 and presented recommendations to co-workers.

Clubs & Societies

• Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo
  • As a member of the Systems Committee (since late 2009) and System Administrator (for five terms), maintained and improved club systems and software providing various services to members, including a mirror of open-source software serving hundreds of concurrent requests.
  • Supported systems used by hundreds of members of a wide range of purposes.