Highlights

• Software engineer and consultant with over 15 years of experience in architecting, developing, and supporting commercial, open source, and scientific applications from inception to production.
• Lead developer with experience in remote and distributed teamwork and domain knowledge in financial, digital publishing, and IT industries.
• Researcher with interests in robotics, control theory, machine learning, and artificial intelligence who developed a robot that juggles ping-pong balls.
• Presenter invited to speak at O'Reilly web services and open-source conferences.
• Writer, who co-authored two books published by O'Reilly.

Education

• Master of Science in Computer Science; University of Washington, 2011

Publications

• Books: Programming Web Services with SOAP and Programming Web Services with Perl
• Papers: First-exit model predictive control of fast discontinuous dynamics: Application to ball bouncing (ICRA) and Policy gradient methods with model predictive control applied to ball bouncing (ADPRL)

Independent Consultant (Advance Digital, Six Apart, The New Yorker) | Feb 2009 - Present

• Developed and documented process for migrating 20M dynamic pages and 1M+ news articles for 10 online newspapers to the combination of Arc Publishing platform and AWS pages (Python, SQL).
• Implemented pipeline processing of media content generated by Arc Publishing platform to assist in graceful migration of 10 media markets from Movable Type CMS (Perl, Python).
• Was responsible for improving and enhancing one of the largest installations of the Movable Type CMS supporting high-profile newspaper and social media websites (Perl, SQL).
• Implemented Facebook integration, optimized performance and enhanced website functionality for content search and aggregation (Linux, Perl, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS).

Open Source Developer (ZeroBrane LLC, github.com/pkulchenko) | 2000 - Present

• Designed, implemented, and supported ZeroBrane Studio, a cross-platform Lua IDE for developing and debugging mobile, embedded, and scientific applications (Windows/Linux/macOS, Lua, wxwidgets). Provided documentation and customer support for paying and free customers for 7+ years.
• Extended and maintained wxlua, Lua wrapper for cross-patform wxwidgets toolkit (Lua, C++).
• Developed MobDebug, a cross-platform remote debugger for Lua and LuaJIT.
• Designed and developed DHCPLite, a DHCP/DNS server for embedded platforms (C, Arduino).
• Created PegDebug, a trace debugger for LPeg rules and captures (Lua).
• Developed ALEcwrap, LuaJIT/FFI wrapper for Arcade Learning Environment.
• Designed, developed, documented and supported SOAP::Lite, a web services toolkit for Perl.
• Contributed to torch7, Redis, SILE, and other open-source projects.

Artificial intelligence and robotics researcher (University of Washington) | Sep 2009 - 2014

• Developed a ball juggling robot (notebook.kulchenko.com/juggling/robot-juggles-two-ping-pong-balls) using real-time optimal control (MATLAB, C, simulation, data visualization).
• Wrote two conference papers accepted for publication at ICRA 2011 and ADPRL 2011.

Senior Solution Architect (J.P.Morgan Chase, Washington Mutual) | Apr 2002 - Jan 2009

• Led a cross-functional team of 15+ people on an 18-month project to develop a system to manage bank's risk and exposure to 60K+ commercial clients; the system included data warehouse and web application components used by 450+ users (C#, ASP.NET). Designed and implemented an algorithm to calculate bank's exposure to commercial clients based on a complex hierarchical structure of their relationships with the bank, which eliminated two weeks of manual data analysis for every generated report (Oracle, PL/SQL, DB modeling and design). Applied iterative development, continuous integration and other agile practices.
• Was a lead solution architect for an online platform providing account management and payment services to small business and commercial customers; the platform made available 650+ web services and integrated with several mainframe and distributed systems. Designed and implemented bill payment web services (Windows, C#, ASP.NET, MS SQL). Mentored junior team members.