Justin Trobec
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Credentials
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Introduction to Probability and Data
Coursera Course CertificatesJun, 2016- Nov, 2024
Experience
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focused
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United States
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Founder
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Oct 2021 - Present
At focused, we help people create healthy work routines, build momentum, and accomplish their most important goals. We do this by providing structure, accountability, and community for our members. I work on building the technology on top of which the focused experience takes place. My goal is to make it smooth and easy for our members to connect with our hosts and each other. I believe setting and tracking goals, sharing them with the people who will encourage and support you, and… Show more At focused, we help people create healthy work routines, build momentum, and accomplish their most important goals. We do this by providing structure, accountability, and community for our members. I work on building the technology on top of which the focused experience takes place. My goal is to make it smooth and easy for our members to connect with our hosts and each other. I believe setting and tracking goals, sharing them with the people who will encourage and support you, and celebrating wins are all things that should help you feel a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. My goal is to get any obstacles out of your way. Show less At focused, we help people create healthy work routines, build momentum, and accomplish their most important goals. We do this by providing structure, accountability, and community for our members. I work on building the technology on top of which the focused experience takes place. My goal is to make it smooth and easy for our members to connect with our hosts and each other. I believe setting and tracking goals, sharing them with the people who will encourage and support you, and… Show more At focused, we help people create healthy work routines, build momentum, and accomplish their most important goals. We do this by providing structure, accountability, and community for our members. I work on building the technology on top of which the focused experience takes place. My goal is to make it smooth and easy for our members to connect with our hosts and each other. I believe setting and tracking goals, sharing them with the people who will encourage and support you, and celebrating wins are all things that should help you feel a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. My goal is to get any obstacles out of your way. Show less
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Twitter
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Staff Software Engineer
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Dec 2012 - Nov 2022
Helping engineers understand the user experience: creator and tech lead of the Performance Tools team. We pipeline massive amounts of end-user performance data into aggregations, visualizations, and regression detection systems that help make the Twitter application faster. We evangelize and promote RUM across teams and product surface areas and promote performance engineering efforts across the company. Helping users understand what's happening: tech lead of the Trends team. Delivered… Show more Helping engineers understand the user experience: creator and tech lead of the Performance Tools team. We pipeline massive amounts of end-user performance data into aggregations, visualizations, and regression detection systems that help make the Twitter application faster. We evangelize and promote RUM across teams and product surface areas and promote performance engineering efforts across the company. Helping users understand what's happening: tech lead of the Trends team. Delivered one of the biggest rewrites of the Trends product since its inception, making some of the first efforts to expand available context around trends. Retooled old code to handle 10x more tweets without additional resources. Show less Helping engineers understand the user experience: creator and tech lead of the Performance Tools team. We pipeline massive amounts of end-user performance data into aggregations, visualizations, and regression detection systems that help make the Twitter application faster. We evangelize and promote RUM across teams and product surface areas and promote performance engineering efforts across the company. Helping users understand what's happening: tech lead of the Trends team. Delivered… Show more Helping engineers understand the user experience: creator and tech lead of the Performance Tools team. We pipeline massive amounts of end-user performance data into aggregations, visualizations, and regression detection systems that help make the Twitter application faster. We evangelize and promote RUM across teams and product surface areas and promote performance engineering efforts across the company. Helping users understand what's happening: tech lead of the Trends team. Delivered one of the biggest rewrites of the Trends product since its inception, making some of the first efforts to expand available context around trends. Retooled old code to handle 10x more tweets without additional resources. Show less
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Microsoft
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Software Development Engineer
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Jan 2010 - Dec 2012
Built prototypes and production systems to expose new features on the SERP. Work primarily focused on systems that present topic summaries in novel ways and consise answers for specific fact-type queries. Tasks include off-line data extraction in a map-reduce type environment, data load in distributed hash tables or other data sources, query-time service components that build responses for user queries, rich UI components that present information to the user, and experiment results… Show more Built prototypes and production systems to expose new features on the SERP. Work primarily focused on systems that present topic summaries in novel ways and consise answers for specific fact-type queries. Tasks include off-line data extraction in a map-reduce type environment, data load in distributed hash tables or other data sources, query-time service components that build responses for user queries, rich UI components that present information to the user, and experiment results analysis. Developed an infrastructure and tools to support natural language processing for use in search applications. Built a system that allowed researchers and linguists to leverage existing, somewhat buggy, NLP libraries in a simple and robust manner.
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Software Development Engineer II – AdECN
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Nov 2005 - Jan 2010
Worked on a team to develop a service which runs real-time auctions of internet display ad impressions, built to scale to 30-billion transactions a month. Produced high-quality, detailed design documentation and wrote scalable, reliable, unit tested code. Made strong contributions to system reliability and supportability. Identified a critical gap in error reporting related to our data access, and led the effort to fix. Designed and delivered tech-talk demonstrating managed debugging… Show more Worked on a team to develop a service which runs real-time auctions of internet display ad impressions, built to scale to 30-billion transactions a month. Produced high-quality, detailed design documentation and wrote scalable, reliable, unit tested code. Made strong contributions to system reliability and supportability. Identified a critical gap in error reporting related to our data access, and led the effort to fix. Designed and delivered tech-talk demonstrating managed debugging techniques. Improved system scalability through design and performance analysis. Gathered insight into system bottlenecks through the use of performance tools, and researched possible remediations. Reworked our caching strategy to reduce contention by 90%. Lead Sustained Engineering efforts, coordinating SusEng team efforts and reporting to business, development, product, and QA management. Delivered detailed, ad hoc data analysis and reporting to inform decisions on business-critical issues. Identified critical production issues and developed mitigations and fixes.
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Support Escalation Engineer
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Nov 2005 - Jul 2008
SQL Server Analysis Services Support Team: Supported customers using SQL Server Analysis Services for data analytics. Utilized debugging skills to identify and file records of product defects. Interacted directly with Product Team to efficiently resolve customer issues. Suported all aspects of Analysis Services including programmability, design, and configuration. Built experience and expertise in debugging client and server applications using WinDBG and C++ code base. Created simple… Show more SQL Server Analysis Services Support Team: Supported customers using SQL Server Analysis Services for data analytics. Utilized debugging skills to identify and file records of product defects. Interacted directly with Product Team to efficiently resolve customer issues. Suported all aspects of Analysis Services including programmability, design, and configuration. Built experience and expertise in debugging client and server applications using WinDBG and C++ code base. Created simple utilities to aid in diagnostics using C# and C++, including a simple WinDBG debugger extension. Improved existing XML skills by analysis of Analysis Services XML-based native protocol (XMLA), and developing an XSL-based method for substituting queries generated by the SSAS engine. SQL Developer Support Team: Responsible for advising and supporting users of Microsoft Data Access stack. Primarily supporting developers through post-mortem debugging, analysis of network traces, code reviews, and other troubleshooting techniques. Included support of SQL Server Reporting Services and XML technologies (MSXML, System.Xml). Delivered consistently exceptional performance and results based on survey scores and direct customer feedback: "Justin did a great job helping me with my case. He communicates well by using clear explanations that get right to the point. He has a solid technical understanding of the material that we needed to discuss to resolve my issue. "[The support experience] was great. I was asking a question to make sure that I understood a known issue with Office 2003 SP2 and the team was very thorough. The question crossed several support boundaries, and I was surprised to hear that Justin pulled together four teams to address my question. Because of his work and response I was able to confidently communicate the issue with Office 2003 SP2 more clearly to my client (Target)."
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Software Developer
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May 2004 - Nov 2005
Software Development primarily using the .Net platform (VB and C#) to deliver quality, custom business applications to corporate customers. McKesson - Drug Maintenance Tool (DMT) Designed and implemented major aspects of an enterprise application created to track McKesson's critical pharmaceutical data. Wrote presentation, data access, and business logic code. Created .Net Remoting objects to coordinate usage of limited hardware resources over a network, and components for serial… Show more Software Development primarily using the .Net platform (VB and C#) to deliver quality, custom business applications to corporate customers. McKesson - Drug Maintenance Tool (DMT) Designed and implemented major aspects of an enterprise application created to track McKesson's critical pharmaceutical data. Wrote presentation, data access, and business logic code. Created .Net Remoting objects to coordinate usage of limited hardware resources over a network, and components for serial communications with digital scales. Unisys – LaChoice Worked with a team of external developers to define the process of transmitting HIPAA compliant messages over the Internet, and transforming these messages into a Mainframe friendly format via a Mercator server. Created a service to automate encryption and decryption of HIPAA transmittals. Amedisys Created a proof-of-concept application to simulate the architecture of a proposed system. Built a web-service in .Net, a .Net class library, and a COM Callable Wrapper (CCW) to demonstrate how a COM component can interact with .Net technologies to consume a web-service.Professional Experience, continued Advanced Office Systems Show less Software Development primarily using the .Net platform (VB and C#) to deliver quality, custom business applications to corporate customers. McKesson - Drug Maintenance Tool (DMT) Designed and implemented major aspects of an enterprise application created to track McKesson's critical pharmaceutical data. Wrote presentation, data access, and business logic code. Created .Net Remoting objects to coordinate usage of limited hardware resources over a network, and components for serial… Show more Software Development primarily using the .Net platform (VB and C#) to deliver quality, custom business applications to corporate customers. McKesson - Drug Maintenance Tool (DMT) Designed and implemented major aspects of an enterprise application created to track McKesson's critical pharmaceutical data. Wrote presentation, data access, and business logic code. Created .Net Remoting objects to coordinate usage of limited hardware resources over a network, and components for serial communications with digital scales. Unisys – LaChoice Worked with a team of external developers to define the process of transmitting HIPAA compliant messages over the Internet, and transforming these messages into a Mainframe friendly format via a Mercator server. Created a service to automate encryption and decryption of HIPAA transmittals. Amedisys Created a proof-of-concept application to simulate the architecture of a proposed system. Built a web-service in .Net, a .Net class library, and a COM Callable Wrapper (CCW) to demonstrate how a COM component can interact with .Net technologies to consume a web-service.Professional Experience, continued Advanced Office Systems Show less
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Advanced Office Systems, Inc. (AOS)
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Developer
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Jan 2003 - May 2004
Worked on a development team to create a 3-tiered application to automate the work-flow of a multi-million dollar corporation. Responsibilities included supporting development efforts by tracking and addressing issues reported by the end users, creating a variety of reports using SQL and CrystalReports, supporting both production and test environments, and testing various aspects of the system. Designed and developed a tiered, network punch-clock application using C#, the .NET Framework… Show more Worked on a development team to create a 3-tiered application to automate the work-flow of a multi-million dollar corporation. Responsibilities included supporting development efforts by tracking and addressing issues reported by the end users, creating a variety of reports using SQL and CrystalReports, supporting both production and test environments, and testing various aspects of the system. Designed and developed a tiered, network punch-clock application using C#, the .NET Framework, and an XML web-service. Moved the company web-site from a third-party host to an in-house server, including installing and configuring Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 on a new server, and converting the site to ASP.NET from ColdFusion. Developed ASP.NET web-applications for both customer and in-house applications, including pages capitalizing on ADO.NET and SQL Server 2000 for dynamic capabilities. Redesigning existing MS Access databases to improve and extend their functionality. Show less Worked on a development team to create a 3-tiered application to automate the work-flow of a multi-million dollar corporation. Responsibilities included supporting development efforts by tracking and addressing issues reported by the end users, creating a variety of reports using SQL and CrystalReports, supporting both production and test environments, and testing various aspects of the system. Designed and developed a tiered, network punch-clock application using C#, the .NET Framework… Show more Worked on a development team to create a 3-tiered application to automate the work-flow of a multi-million dollar corporation. Responsibilities included supporting development efforts by tracking and addressing issues reported by the end users, creating a variety of reports using SQL and CrystalReports, supporting both production and test environments, and testing various aspects of the system. Designed and developed a tiered, network punch-clock application using C#, the .NET Framework, and an XML web-service. Moved the company web-site from a third-party host to an in-house server, including installing and configuring Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 on a new server, and converting the site to ASP.NET from ColdFusion. Developed ASP.NET web-applications for both customer and in-house applications, including pages capitalizing on ADO.NET and SQL Server 2000 for dynamic capabilities. Redesigning existing MS Access databases to improve and extend their functionality. Show less
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Education
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University of California, Berkeley
Master's of Information, Data Science -
University of Illinois
Master of Computer Science -
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science, Information Technology -
Oakton College
Associate, Fine Arts -- Music
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