Walter Punsapy
Summary
20+ plus years of experience shipping software.
Career
- yahooza labs
- Founder & Principal Consultant (Self-employed)
- Shipped web projects for startups, small businesses, and really big companies.
- Clients: Meta / Facebook · Beluga Tech · Systems & Technology Research · LinkedIn · Personal Capital · Zvents · Timedots · Core Dot Continuum · P6R Consulting · Moby Marketing · guru.com · myplay.com
- Edmodo, part 2
- Sr. Software Engineer
- Architected a new Gulp-based
build and deployment process, which introduced modern frontend technologies
to an older monolithic webapp. Inspired by Rails'
Asset Pipeline.
- CoffeeScript and ES6 transpiling, SASS and LESS pre-processing, SourceMaps.
- Handlebars template rendering, Client-side I18n support
- Asset bundling, minification, versioning, and deployment.
- Co-developed Billygoat, a Backbone and Marionette frontend framework.
- Automagically handling authentication via the REST-powered backend.
- Shared Backbone Models and Collections.
- New Actions Logging service that powered the Analytics and Data platform.
- Shipped New Library and New Gradebook
- Focused on developer productivity, mentoring, and contributing to coding conventions and best practices.
- Architected a new Gulp-based
build and deployment process, which introduced modern frontend technologies
to an older monolithic webapp. Inspired by Rails'
Asset Pipeline.
- Edmodo, part 1
- Sr. Software Engineer
- Shipped Actions Tracking (JavaScript and PHP) APIs. Consumers include the main website and both native iOS and Android mobile apps.
- Co-shipped Edmodo Bootstrap, a set of shared frontend components built on top of Twitter Bootstrap, unifying the user experience across multiple webapps.
- Nearly shipped New Planner, a responsive single-page calendar webapp (Rails, Backbone, REST).
- Shipped redesigned Store, Developer, and Institution Tools.
- TrialPay
- Sr. Frontend Engineer
- Shipped the Facebook Credits Offerwall, fusing a very profitable relationship between TrialPay, Facebook, and Zynga.
- Prototyped responsive HTML5 Offerwall targeting for multiple form factors — phone, tablet and desktop.
- Shipped DealSpot's revamped front-end, funneling multiple offer types into a single endpoint.
- Shipped internal platform tools. Fun stuff.
- Raptr
- Sr. Web Engineer
- Shipped raptr.com, a social networking site for PC and console gamers, furiously scrambling with product folks, user experience sorcerers, and engineers.
- Played a lot of Starcraft (only on Fridays, of course).
- Yahoo!
- Software Engineer
- One of the first Y! Answers engineers, shipping Y! Answers to 50+ million users.
- Shipped Y! Better Bookmarks with YUI 2.x and Symfony
- Awards: 2006 Yahoo! Superstar (team) award winner for Y! Answers. Heck yeah.
- Razorfish, part 2
- Sr. Consultant
- Medialive Intl.
- Web Applications Developer
- Shipped JavaOne Session Speakers CMS tool and JavaOne 2003 Urban Adventure and Hands-on Lab webapps. PHP + MySQL.
- GenSys Software
- Web Engineer
- Shipped front-end framework for J2EE-based Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and Electronic LAB Application (eLAB), building object-oriented javascript libraries and writing JSPs.
- Razorfish, part 1
- Sr. Interface Developer
- Four Points Digital
- Web Developer and Systems Administrator
Academics
- University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
- Studies in Biology and Advanced Chemistry.
- Loyola Academy
- College Prep, Class of 1993, Illinois State Scholar 1993.
- St. Isaac Jogues
- Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle, Junior High.
- Poko Loko
- Preschool.
- Tiny Tots
- Pre-preschool.
Interests
Computers, the art of programming, information security, philosophy, social psychology, film, music, travelling, information and visual design, meeting interesting people, comic books, conspiracy theories, weird stuff and stranger things.