John Kiely

Languages: Python, Ruby, Haskell, Go, Javascript
Frameworks: Flask, Rails, Node
Tools: Git

_{jjkiely@gmail.com • jkiely.co.uk • github.com/jkiely}

Experience

I took qualitative data collected by a post-doc and regularized certain fields to make it ready for statistical analysis. I managed to do the bulk of this with a few scripts and the long tail with individual find/replaces.
I wrote a script to scrape drug reviews off of forums relating the the Silk Road and Agora, with some rudimentary text analysis to extract drug names, prices, and names of some prolific dealers.

https://github.com/JKiely/spellchecker
Uses /(uni|bi|tri)gram/ frequencies from a given corpus, and Damerau–Levenshtein distance to suggest corrections to words it doesn't recognize.

https://github.com/JKiely/Totes-Random
A 'satirical random number generator' which uses the entropy of Twitter to seed a Mersenne twister.
I also made a twitter bot for this site: https://github.com/JKiely/Totes-Random-Bot

https://www.recurse.com
I used my time there to expand my horizons as a developer and explore many areas of programming.
I build all of the projects above, as well as several others.
I read parts of Software Foundations, Learn you a Haskell, High Performance Python, Programming Erlang, and The Pragmatic Programmer. As well as several article and tutorials on the implementation details of Python, web servers, and other technologies I use frequently.
I also had the chance to pair with experienced Go, Haskell, and C developers on projects exploring those languages.

ASIEC Society (2012-2013): Teaching English in China during the summer of 2013.
Debate Society (2012-2013): Parliamentary style, competed in several inter-varsity tournaments.
LSE Groups (2014): An internal event in which teams prepare an academic paper with original research in two weeks and present it at a conference on the final day.