Resume: John Seth Thielemann

JOHN SETH THIELEMANN

1. Experience

Founder, JOSTALY TECHNOLOGIES LLC. (Sep 2023 to Present)
     * Responsible for developing Minimal Viable Product.
     * Registered US PPA: #63/602/715 and NPPA #18/429/008 via The Patent Professor.
     * Responsible for business activities such as marketing, advertising, and management.

Software Engineer, Barracuda Networks (Nov 2013 to Nov 2022)
     * Served primarily as escalation engineer in a small team identifying, prioritizing, and resolving bugs for customers. Results of this work were a significant reduction in technical support call volume and increase in product stability.
     * Integral component to the technical support team to update customers and support on the status of tickets until the point of resolution.
     * Served on Agile Team as a self-managing team member in Scrum and Kanban constructs completing tasks prioritized by product management in two week intervals.
     * Resolved typecast return defect and windows-to-linux character map bugs in the SMB linux kernel module.
     * Updated and maintained backend open source software to resolve Common Vulnerabilities and Exploits (CVEs) to enhance product security.
     * Implemented widgets, calendar updates, corrected timezone defects, and updated jQuery Web User Interface to strengthen customer experience.
     * Implemented x86_64 SSE assembly routines for SHA1 and MD5 hashing algorithms for the backup agent.
     * Software Developer for backup/restore of computer and tape applications. Responsible for maintenance, adding features, and unit tests following DevOps practices for C/C++, PHP, and Javascript code repositories.

Embedded Engineer, Microtech Solutions LLC. (May 2008 to Jan 2013)
     * Developed embedded applications under TS/SCI clearances.

Software Engineer, BitLeap LLC.(Jun 2006 to Apr 2008)
     * Aided in building core components such as a server skeleton and various daemons for backup product.
     * Optimized bzip2 along with SHA1 and MD5 hashing algorithms in x86-32 assembly language resulting in over 60% increase in efficiency under various circumstances.
     * Created a PHP extension in C to interface with various components of the backend linux backup product.

2. Education

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
* B.S. in Computer Science (2004 to 2008)
* Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society

3. Skills

     * Embedded & Kernel Development (C/C++/ASM/DSP/FPGA/QEMU/RTOS)
     * Assembly Languages (x86/x86-64/ARM/PIC/MIPS/8051)
     * Application Development (C/C++), Web (JavaScript/PHP/jQuery/HTML)
     * Hardware Tools (Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyzer, Read Schematics)
     * Database Systems (Postgres/SQLite/MySQL), DevOps, Agile Development

4. Awards

     * 2003 3rd place Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
     * MIT Lincoln Laboratory Minor Planet 17882
     * 2003 IEEE 2nd Place Award
     * 2003 HACC Computer Problem Solving Content
     * USAF Certificate of Achievement
     * US Army Certificate of Achievement
     * Office of Naval Research Naval Scientific Award