Drew Griscom Roos
Summary
Seasoned, meticulous, results-focused software developer with a strong interest in mapping and geospatial applications.
Adept at building and debugging complex systems, dealing with data at scale, and clearly communicating technical material.
Experience
- Team mission: improve both quantity and quality of category and attribute data for businesses/POIs in Google Maps datastore
- Launched detection and display of restaurant menu URLs for 12 new countries outside of US with >90% accuracy using ML classifier
- Designed and implemented core APIs for new initiative to support thousands of light-weight business attributes, enabling all geo producers/consumers to integrate seamlessly
- Significant enhancements to the reconciliation system that decides which of conflicting data values goes live, including a major back-end data migration
- Wrote infrastructure to spatially segment user groups and run experiments to gauge behavioral changes in response to local data quality
- Worked on many projects to improve healthcare in developing countries and for underserved populations
- Made fundamental contributions to CommCare and Open Data Kit, the core data collection/mHealth engine which now underpins the entire enterprise: deployments in 30+ countries, millions of submitted forms
- Built highly-reliable systems that had to function in adverse environments (off-the-grid, poor connectivity) without human intervention
- Responsible for high-level design decisions, low-level code craft, requirements gathering, and client management
- Frequent international travel and field work: Afghanistan, Nigeria, Zambia, among others
- Developed and supported EMR software, with focus on surgery/anesthesia
- Was selected for high-profile, interdisciplinary task force to tackle critical integration issues amongst the company's broad suite of applications
Personal Projects
With focus on geospatial data processing and visualization;
showcase and demos at https://mrgris.com
Education
- B.S. in Computer Science, with High Honors; 3.45 GPA, 3.58 within major
Skills
- Python, Javascript, Java, C++, Cloud Dataflow, Android
- Full-stack web development, HTML5/CSS/DOM, Django, Tornado, jQuery, knockout.js, SQL (PostgreSQL in particular), NoSQL (CouchDB)
- OpenGL/GL ES/WebGL, Lex/Yacc, Git
- Leaflet, GeoJSON, GDAL