JOSEPH PETITTI
RESUME

Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, C, HTML/CSS, Python, SQL, LaTeX, Bash, Haskell
Technologies: GNU/Linux, Node.js, Angular, AWS, Android, Git, Nginx, JetBrains IDEs, Microsoft Office

Beecology Project, WPI
Full Stack Web Developer
Worcester, MA
Oct 2019–Present

NSF-Funded Research: Co-Principal Investigator on NSF-funded (award number 1742446) research project: "Building Educational Bridges Between Computer Science and Biology Through Transdisciplinary Teamwork and Modular Curriculum Design"
Front-End Visualization: Designed Angular front-end data visualization tools for historical corpus of bee data
Curriculum API: Designed and implemented Node.js API for managing lesson plan metadata and files
Data Analysis: Wrote Python flask API scripts for performing data analysis for bee-related hypotheses

AWS Migration: Migrated educational technology web application used by thousands of students and teachers from on-premises hardware to secure AWS cloud, involving PostgreSQL, Java, Vue.js, and Python on Amazon RDS and EC2

WPI
Teaching Assistant—Computer Science Department
Worcester, MA
Aug 2018–Jun 2020

Labs, Office Hours: Taught labs, held office hours, and graded assignments for undergraduate computer science classes

Hosting Team: Managed installing, updating, and troubleshooting virtual Windows and GNU/Linux servers hosting Kentico, Umbraco, WordPress, etc. content management systems and databases for dozens of clients
IT Tasks: Independently completed IT tasks and organized inventory as sole IT staff for office of 32 employees

Enterprise Web Appraisal System: The Enterprise Web Appraisal System (EWAS) is a web application developed by MAPFRE for internal use by their appraisers, automating the appraisal process and increasing efficiency and consistency. Worked on application services team to develop front-end and debug database
EWAS Front-End: Developed and deployed dynamic web application front-end in JavaScript/JQuery

Procedurally Generated Web Game: Designed and built performant, procedurally generated top-down shooter game for the web with two other students. All engine code, game logic, and graphics were made from scratch using only JavaScript. Selected by WPI to be demonstrated at PAX East 2020.

Augmented Reality Tour Guide App
Team Member, Kyoto VR
Kyoto, Japan
Jul–Oct 2019

Audio Tour App: Developed mobile app in team of three for delivering audio tours with augmented reality features for historic sites in Kyoto, Japan
Tour Editor: Designed and deployed web application for creating and version-managing extensible location-based audio tours including vanilla JavaScript front-end and Node.js back-end

Cultural Preservation and Promotion
Team Member, Institute for Sustainable Urbanisation
Central, Hong Kong
Jan–Mar 2019

Web Design: Worked with a team of four to research and create prototype website for preservation and promotion of historically significant sites in Hong Kong

Angular Front-End: Independently developed responsive front-end for schedule planning web app using TypeScript, Angular, and Google's Material Design
AWS Back-End: Led team of four to develop Java API and MySQL database in Amazon Web Services

Personal Website: Mar 2018–Present. Independently designed and developed personal website to host projects. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on CentOS server using Nginx back-end

Dean's List: WPI, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Beta Theta Pi: Eta Tau Chapter, Risk Management Chairman 2018; Finance Chairman 2019
Upsilon Pi Epsilon: Computer Science honor society, Nov 2018
Eagle Scout Award: Boy Scouts of America, Sep 2012