Matthew Wronka

Interests

TripAdvisor, Newton, Massachusetts USA http://www.tripadvisor.com/

Senior Software Engineer

2006 - present

Maintained, improved, and developed new core-product functionality
Worked with both US and foreign thrid-parties to launch, develop, and improve integrated products
International and New Points of Sale
- Extended and constructed core functionality to support localization needs
- Over two dozen localizations, including Eastern, Slavic, and Semitic languages
Mobile
- Developed mobile-focussed web site across all western points of sale
- Maintained native mobile applications for Android and iOS based devices
Gave regular engineering-wide presentations on infrastructure/best-practices
Primary tools: Java, AJAX, Velocity, CSS, XSLT/XML, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, ObjectiveC, Linux

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island USA 2004-2006

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York USA 2003-2004

Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Niskayuna, New York USA http://www.knollslab.com/

Summer Intern

2003

Reverse engineered 3D scene-based file formats, created import filters for in-house 3D modeling software
Evaluated/advised on hardware purchases, worked with vendors to address problems
Received "L" ("Secret") level clearance from U.S. D.O.E.
Primary tools: C++, Cygwin, MSVC++, Irix, WindowsNT, OpenGL

Temporary Technical Employee (Intern)

2001, 2002

Worked on health-care management system for Siemens' Medical
Wrote bridging software for Simatic Step 7 PLC controlling software and Microsoft Project
Primary tools: J2EE, JSP/EJB, Swing, Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, Visual Basic, VBA/Microsoft Project

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island USA http://cs.brown.edu/

Research Assistant

2004-2006

Research focused on peer-to-peer networks and distributed protocols
Graduate level courses in distributed systems and large scale network systems
Graduate level courses in natural language processing, computational vision, and machine learning
Primary tools: Python, C, Java, Perl, Matlab/Octave

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York USA http://rpi.edu/

M.S., Computer Science (GPA 4.0/4.0), May, 2004

2003-2004

B.S., Computer Science / Philosophy (Dual, GPA 3.86/4.0), May, 2003

2000-2003

Active member of the Minds & Machines lab.
Graduate level courses in complexity, computer graphics and visualization, and artificial intelligence
M.B.A. courses in managing technical projects, ethics and law
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, worked to reactivate local chapter of honor society Upsilon Pi Epsilon
Active member of Association for Computing Machinery chapter; served as chairman

Mobile programming

Web programming