Ethan Sherbondy
Student, Web Designer & Programmer
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: B.S. in Computer Science expected Spring 2014.
Skills
All things web: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Browser Extensions, Python, various flavors of SQL, Redis. I've made mobile websites and implemented responsive designs. Solid understanding of C, Objective-C, and the Cocoa Touch APIs (iOS). Decent knowledge of Processing. Photoshop’s a close friend. Currently dabbling in Clojure.
Experiences
- Fall 2012—Present at StartLabs: Webmaster and software lead. Rebuilt the website from scratch. The Jobs List is highly trafficked and serves to connect MIT students with internships/jobs at Startups around the world.
- Summer 2012 at Apple, Inc: Worked on Final Cut Pro with the Pro Apps team to ship new chapter marker and clip metadata features.
- Summer 2011 at Bump Technologies: Helped implement the iOS client interface refresh and worked on TBA web-based features. JavaScript and Objective-C, all day every day. Co-created the winning entry of our intern hackathon, Bill Split.
- Fall 2010 at the MIT Media Lab: Undergraduate Research comparing TV Set-top box usability at the Information Ecology group. Here’s a sample, informal writeup of our findings concerning remote ergonomics across devices. I also gave a guest lecture for MAS 571.
- Summer 2010 through Winter 2011: Co-created Listenr, an iOS application for listening to music from Tumblr.
- Summer 2009 & 2010 for Stanford’s Neuroscience Department: Designed and built the original interface for NIMS: a Pylons application that allows research groups to collaborate on experiments, maintain subject information, and upload brain MRIs. JavaScript and Python intensive. The project is in continual development.
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2007—Present: Freelance Web Development. Some recent creations:
- QR Attend, winner of MIT’s 2011 Facebook Hackathon. Easily generate QR codes and custom mobile websites for your Facebook events. Put the codes on event fliers around your school/community.
- Mondrian Automaton, a site that generates mondrian-esque pictures based on user preference. Images made with Processing.js.
- Compatriot and Remux, two themes for Tumblr.